PCs for AP

The MlNlNEC System: Microcomputer Analysis of Wire Antennas, J. W. Rockway, J. C. Logan, D. W. S. Tam, & S. T. Li, Artech House, Boston, 1988, ISBN 0-89006-264-1. If there are any of you reading this column who use PCs for antenna modeling but haven\´t yet heard of MININEC, you\´re probably in a small minority. MlNlNEC began in the early 1980s initially as an experiment to demonstrate that "real" modeling using a moment-method code on a PC was actually feasible. As a matter of fact, the feature article from which this column originated, published in the August 1983 AP-S Newsletter, briefly described two wire models then running on Apple II+ micros, the original MININEC, afrequency-domain code, and TWTD as a time-domain counterpart.