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NEC 4 has the most up to date features and is used by antenna design professionals. You should look up these programs on the internet if you need additional information. KE5KJD uses MMANA GAL because it is free and does a reasonable job of calculating radiation patterns. MMANA Antenna Modeling Program. NEC-BSC Basic Scattering Code, V4.2; NEC-BSC Workbench; OSU Reflector Antenna Code Version 3.5; NEWAIR Aircraft Code, Version 3.1; Current Price List. Below is a price list for available computer codes. Some of the codes may have restricted distribution - see the ordering instructions for additional information.

Numerical Electromagnics Code

(Method of Moments)

NEC simulates the electromagnetic response of antennas and metal structures.

Jerry Burke and A. Poggio wrote the NEC/MOM family of programs at Lawrence Livermore Labs in 1981, under contract to the US navy. NEC2 was later released to the public and is now available on most computing platforms.

This website gathers together NEC2 documentation and code examples from a group of leading scientists and engineers

Please send contributions or questions to Trevor Marshall,
the webmaster

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Link here for information and instructions on how to run NEC2 in a Microsoft Windows environment. There is also a sample NEC model that you can use to test your setup.

Take a look at my tutorial for BYTE.com describing antennas for WLAN deployment Flac for mac.

The BiQuad antenna is a simple 2.4GHz WLAN antenna suitable for for 802.11 use. Details on how to construct this antenna, both as stand-alone and as a parabolic dish feed can be found at this link. The NEC simulation model, and sample output, can be found here.

An HTML version of the Users Manual for NEC has been created by Peter Richeson.
There are three parts to the manual:

Part I:

NEC Program Description - Theory

PDF Version (view with a left mouse click, download with right click-save target)

Part II:

NEC Program Description - Code

Not available yet

Part III:

NEC User's Guide

Self extracting zipped MS Word Version (download with right click-save target)

Peter has also collected a history of NEC development.

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Dave Michelson runs the NEC-LIST, a mailing list for discussion of discussing anything and everything to do with computational electromagnetics. This is a good place to discuss NEC with contributors from academic, government and industry labs around the world.Click here to join the NEC mailing list.

Links to other sources of NEC2 information:

Ray Anderson's 'UnofficalNEC Archives' contains LINUX, Mac and UNIX versions of NEC2 software
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Home Page
The ElectroScience Laboratory HomePage
Unversity of Missouri-Rolla ftp site

Commercial Programs

Nittany Scientific,NECBasic, NEC Win Pro and GNEC
W7ELCreator of ELNEC, EZNEC,EZNEC Pro etc.
Ansoft's - Electrical EngineeringSimulation Software

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