Toni wrote in message
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En Roy Lewallen va escriure en Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:29:06 -0700:

Thanks for the responses. The suggestions were constructive, and they
confirmed my observation that some people will do just about anything,
including newsgroup posting, to avoid looking in the manual.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL


Hi Roy,

It is true that your program's user interface is not the best in
the world, but... Who cares? I think the free version of EZNEC
has made a lot for the ham community, much more than some of the
people criticizing you.

Best regards,

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Toni

"Auto" = prefijo griego que significa "no funciona"

Hi Tony,

There have been over 2 million copies of
my freeware 'Quickyagi' downloaded, with
zero (0) complaints from users. Free, isn't
everything, y'know...

WA7RAI

En Chuck va escriure en Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:41:59 -0700:

There have been over 2 million copies of
my freeware 'Quickyagi' downloaded, with
zero (0) complaints from users. Free, isn't
everything, y'know...

Hi Chuck,

I didn't know that program, but I'll Google for it and have a
look. In any case, from it's name, I infer that it is a Yagui
design/optimize program that may be very good, but only for
advanced amateurs.

What I was referring to, and this is what makes EZNEC special, is
the posibility of "try and see". You read about, for ex., delta
match and go to EZNEC and try it. You can experiment what happens
if the match is too long or too short or... whatever. This is
specially good to check that your design is not too critical. If
you see that small differences in element construction will cause
big degradation you can forget building it with real tools and
materials.

As for the price, effectively, free isn't everything but it helps
with programs whose utility is not clear until you have used them
for long enough. I know this is the shareware concept but I
reckon it does not work for business. Roy's intermediate approach
seems good to me: reduced but sufficient functionality for the
masses and full for whoever pays it.

73's
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Toni

"Auto" = prefijo griego que significa "no funciona"