ARRL Radio Designer
 

Am looking for some basic RF design software that can run on an older PC
laptop (Pentium II 266 MHz). I know ARRL doesn't sell Radio Designer
anymore, but I'd be interested in getting a used copy of it or an
equivalent that'll run on my older computer. Any suggestions? It'll be
used just for hobby-level stuff, nothing very intensive.

Tnx & 73,
Joe K9LY

Joe LeKostaj wrote:
Am looking for some basic RF design software that can run on an older PC
laptop (Pentium II 266 MHz). I know ARRL doesn't sell Radio Designer
anymore, but I'd be interested in getting a used copy of it or an
equivalent that'll run on my older computer. Any suggestions? It'll be
used just for hobby-level stuff, nothing very intensive.

Tnx & 73,
Joe K9LY
I think the student version 8.5 of Serenade is basically the updated
version . The product that ARRL designer is made from was one of the
last versions of SuperCompact before the company became Ansoft.

This webpage has plenty of ideas.

http://www.rfengineer.cc/rftools.htm

regards Andrew

In article ,
Andrew Tweddle wrote:

I think the student version 8.5 of Serenade is basically the updated
version.

Serenade is no longer available.

Ansoft does offer a free feature-limited "student" version of its
successor product "Ansoft Designer". I've heard that this student
version lacks some capabilities which were available in Serenade. I
haven't tried it out myself.

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In article ,
(Dave Platt) wrote:

In article ,
Andrew Tweddle wrote:

I think the student version 8.5 of Serenade is basically the updated
version.

Serenade is no longer available.

Ansoft does offer a free feature-limited "student" version of its
successor product "Ansoft Designer". I've heard that this student
version lacks some capabilities which were available in Serenade. I
haven't tried it out myself.

Andrew, Dave:

Thanks for the tips and links. Unfortunately even the Ansoft Designer
student version's system requirements exceed my laptop's capability.

So, I'd still be happy to buy a used copy of ARRL Radio Designer if
anybody's got one.

--
73,
Joe K9LY

Depending on what you want to do, you might try RFSIMM99 which is a fairly
powerful S parameter simulator program.

It is free and if you do a search for that name you ought to get a lot of
sites to download it from.

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When I set the passive components to use real world models, I can enter
the self resonant frequencies and so on from the catalog for the particular
component I want to use.

Then, running Random Simulation mode, I can find if my design has critical
components. I like that !!!

The ability to include real world parasitics is a nice part of the
program, and I use it to keep my designs as tolerant of the actual
components as possible.


Jim Pennell
N6BIU

Jim
thanks for a great tip! Downloaded the 2MBsetup-file. Runs great on my
XP machine and I am confident it will be very handy! Never heard of
this one before! Thumbs up!

/Lasse SM5GLC
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:53:54 GMT, "Jim Pennell"
wrote:

Depending on what you want to do, you might try RFSIMM99 which is a fairly
powerful S parameter simulator program.

It is free and if you do a search for that name you ought to get a lot of
sites to download it from.

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

When I set the passive components to use real world models, I can enter
the self resonant frequencies and so on from the catalog for the particular
component I want to use.

Then, running Random Simulation mode, I can find if my design has critical
components. I like that !!!

The ability to include real world parasitics is a nice part of the
program, and I use it to keep my designs as tolerant of the actual
components as possible.


Jim Pennell
N6BIU