----- Original Message -----
"Wes Stewart" Wrote:


My experience is different. Serenade is much more powerful,
however, I find the learning curve much steeper.

They all have the same roots however, and Serenade can use
circuit files (net lists) generated in ARD.



Thanks for the correction, Wes. I was going on second hand information.

I have to upgrade my computer and then I will be able to run Serenade.....


Jim Pennell
N6BIU

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 02:48:37 GMT, "Jim Pennell"
wrote:

| My understanding is that the Rf Designer program from ARRL has a
|moderately complicated user interface and so it was not quite a popular as
|originally hoped.
|
| However, the Ansoft student version is just about as capable if not more
|so and is a bit easier to learn.

My experience is different. Serenade is much more powerful, however,
I find the learning curve much steeper.

They all have the same roots however, and Serenade can use circuit
files (net lists) generated in ARD.

Wes

"W3JDR" wrote


BTW, I run ARRL Designer under Win98SE and it's fine. What OS are you
trying
to use it with?


Joe,

Thanks for all the resources. At my house ARRL Designer pukes and dies on
both WIN98 (500MHz P2) and WIN-XP (2.5GHz P-4) machines.

73, Hans, K0HB

"W3JDR" ) writes:
The company that made ARRL Designer (Compact Software) was bought by Ansoft.
They have greatly enhanced the capability, and the current offering is
available as a free student version he
http://www.ansoft.com/ansoftdesignersv/

The download is *very* large. For folks on a dial-up connection, it is
almost out the question. Is is available on a CD somewhere??
Thanks.
.... Martin VE3OAT

On 7 Jan 2004 01:32:44 GMT, (Martin Potter)
wrote:

"W3JDR" ) writes:
The company that made ARRL Designer (Compact Software) was bought by Ansoft.
They have greatly enhanced the capability, and the current offering is
available as a free student version he
http://www.ansoft.com/ansoftdesignersv/

The download is *very* large. For folks on a dial-up connection, it is
almost out the question. Is is available on a CD somewhere??
Thanks.
... Martin VE3OAT


Yes, e-mail the Serenade team and request an "educational" pack. There
is info on their site somewhere about this option.
hth Mike W
--

On 7 Jan 2004 01:32:44 GMT, (Martin Potter)
wrote:

"W3JDR" ) writes:
The company that made ARRL Designer (Compact Software) was bought by Ansoft.
They have greatly enhanced the capability, and the current offering is
available as a free student version he
http://www.ansoft.com/ansoftdesignersv/

The download is *very* large. For folks on a dial-up connection, it is
almost out the question. Is is available on a CD somewhere??
Thanks.
... Martin VE3OAT


Yes, e-mail the Serenade team and request an "educational" pack. There
is info on their site somewhere about this option.
hth Mike W
--

My understanding is that the Rf Designer program from ARRL has a
moderately complicated user interface and so it was not quite a popular as
originally hoped.

However, the Ansoft student version is just about as capable if not more
so and is a bit easier to learn.

http://www.ansoft.com/ansoftdesignersv/

=====================

A long time ago I ran across a free S parameter simulator, RFSIMM99,
which handles most of the things I need. It also has a monte carlo
tolerance analysis which is convenient when I want to see what component
tolerances are going to do to me.

The company that originally made this program seem to not be there any
more, or at least my link to their website does not work, but the program
can be found on quite a lot of websites.


Jim Pennell N6BIU

"W3JDR" ) writes:
The company that made ARRL Designer (Compact Software) was bought by Ansoft.
They have greatly enhanced the capability, and the current offering is
available as a free student version he
http://www.ansoft.com/ansoftdesignersv/

The download is *very* large. For folks on a dial-up connection, it is
almost out the question. Is is available on a CD somewhere??
Thanks.
.... Martin VE3OAT

Hans,

ARRL's Radio Designer Version 1.5 (copyrighted 1998) claims that it
runs on both Windows 9x amd NT systems, and I can confirm empirically
that it operates on Win XP Pro as well - an excerpt from the included
Help file is below:

" ARRL Radio Designer 1.5, a Windows (3.1, 3.11, 95 and NT)-based
computer program, lets you create computerized models of audio, radio
and electronic circuits so you can see how they work--and make them
work better--without actually building them....."

IIRC correctly, the last version sold by the ARRL was 1.51. If you
are using an older version, perhaps you can find a copy of this one
somewhere? Was originally $150, should be a copy at a fraction of
that out there now that it is discontinued.......

73, Leo


On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:23:14 GMT, "KØHB"
wrote:

Several years ago ARRL marketed a WIN3.xx software package called "Radio
Designer" which was a 'lite' copy of a commercial RF design program.
Unfortunately the program does not run under 16- and 32-bit Windows
environments, and the OEM is not interested in entering into further
arrangements with ARRL.

Does anyone know of a similar program in a price range (under $500)
attractive to hams?

73, de Hans, K0HB

--
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb

"Leo" wrote

Hans,



ARRL's Radio Designer Version 1.5 (copyrighted 1998) claims that it

runs on both Windows 9x amd NT systems, and I can confirm empirically

that it operates on Win XP Pro as well - an excerpt from the included

Help file is below:

Thanks Leo,

Mine is the original version 1.0 and it doesn't run in Win98 or Win-XP Pro
or Win-XP Home.

I'll see if I can root out a copy of 1.5.

73, Hans, K0HB