"Iitoi" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a similarly capable software package which will
run on an XP platform. Need not be freeware, but also cannot afford a
professional 'commercial' package.

I'd suggest trying out Ansoft SV,
http://www.ansoft.com/ansoftdesignersv/capabilities.cfm. I think one can make
a good argument it's -- by far -- the most powerful free RF simulation tool
out there. The user interface is a little odd, but only a little -- nowhere
near as different as, say, Eagle PCB is. There's a excellent tutorial for it
he
http://www.elektronikschule.de/~krau...x_english.html
....by Gunthard Kraus.

There's also PUFF which... holy deja vu, Batman!... Gunthard Krauss has a page
on getting to work with Windows XP. Sayre's book, "Complete Wireless Design."
is almost the unofficial manual for it. It's nowhere near as powerful as
Ansoft, but you might want to try it out anyway; in its day it was really
quite good.

---Joel Kolstad