Yes, it's commercial and pricey. I was able to get a license donated for community use.
The advantage of getting results from software like HFSS is that you have a result to compare results from NEC against. It's not a replacement. It's an additional result. Both/and, not either/or.
We have done this to test open source GSE and DVB-S2X work.
-Michelle W5NYV
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:31 PM Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
On July 10, 2020 6:41:54 PM CDT, Michelle Thompson < mountain.michelle@gmail.com> wrote:
Would HFSS help?
Thank you for the offer, but HFSS is commercial and pricey. I have access to similar tools through my workplace, but this exercise should be solvable with nec2, I think. That way, others can build off of it, should they want to.
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