The wire program used in this class was written by Dr. William A. Davis from the Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Davis is quite accomplished in the numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields and is also very capable with a PC. The wire program uses the method of moments and is similar toMININEC, a widely used wire antenna program. The wire program and the shell that runs it are written in Turbo Pascal and should run on any IBM compatible PC using a DOS command prompt window.

The antenna.exe file is a self-extracting executable file. Once extracted in the DOS window, the user will find three main programs: wire, arrfac and arrpat. The wire code is the one we will be using here. The others may be used when performing array analysis. Click on the link for the executable file. I have also included a doc that I wrote about the wire code which has some of my tips for using it.

antenna.exe Download the executable file. I recommend saving it and extracting it after download.

wire Code Notes  some notes for using the wire antenna analysis code

wiredata.doc A word file for concisely presenting the wire antenna code data