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Technical Topics => Equipment => Topic started by: Rob. on January 06, 2022, 1506 UTC

Title: EZNEC is now free
Post by: Rob. on January 06, 2022, 1506 UTC

https://www.eznec.com/

Title: Re: EZNEC is now free
Post by: Elf36 on January 06, 2022, 1523 UTC

Awesome. Thanks for posting this!

Title: Re: EZNEC is now free
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on January 06, 2022, 2256 UTC

I am almost pretty sure that EZNEC has been free for some time now but EZNEC PRO requires licensing.

I could not find a download link for EZNEC on their website. Only EZNEC Pro/2 v. 6.0 appears to be available for download.

Title: Re: EZNEC is now free
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on January 10, 2022, 0310 UTC

I may have been wrong on this one. I checked my archive and the previously available version of EZNEC was EZWDemo60Inst.exe. The version currently being offered on the web site is EZNEC_Pro2_v6_setup.exe.

I have been using GAL-ANA and MMANA-GAL and definitely will be trying EZNEC. I wanted to try this one in the past but only the demo version was previously available.

Title: Re: EZNEC is now free
Post by: Josh on January 10, 2022, 1921 UTC

Indeed, great news.

Title: Re: EZNEC is now free
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on January 11, 2022, 0344 UTC

Testing is a little bit of a kludge right now. I virtualized the application using VMware ThinApp on a 32-bit version of Windows 7 but this then failed to run on a 64-bit system. I opted for virtualization because the program installs a version of Visual C++ Redistributable (if missing) and some Microsoft components (DLL, OCX) in the Windows folder. A virtualized (portable) version is handy to move around between computers without having to install anything or to run it from a USB stick

Further testing will require a different approach otherwise, it seems to work.

(http://www.milspec.ca/board/img/2022-01-10_223947.png)