Radio Designer software package
 

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

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/
There are also many other evaluation & student packages available on the net
for free. Check out this site as a starter:
http://www.rfengineer.cc/rftools.htm

Also, if you do an internet search on "RF circuit analysis software" or
something similar, you'll get lots of hits.

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

Joe
W3JDR


"KØHB" wrote in message
hlink.net...
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

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/
There are also many other evaluation & student packages available on the net
for free. Check out this site as a starter:
http://www.rfengineer.cc/rftools.htm

Also, if you do an internet search on "RF circuit analysis software" or
something similar, you'll get lots of hits.

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

Joe
W3JDR


"KØHB" wrote in message
hlink.net...
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

"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" 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

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

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

"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

Behold, KØHB signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:


"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

Do you have Linux? I find some of these that won't run on my Win98,
actually run quite well in WinE from *nix :-)

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Gregg
*It's probably useful, even if it can't be SPICE'd*
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