MMANAENG

MMANA is an antenna analyzing tool made by JE3HHT Mori-san, who is famous as MMTTY and MMSSTV developer.  MMANA has a wide variety of functions, which includes the antenna editor, antenna calculator, antenna optimizer.  I trust you enjoy the program.

For the new user, let me give an example of the use.
(1) Start MMANA.
(2) File -> Open file.
(3) Click on the ANT directory.
(4) Click on HF Beams directory.
(5) Select 4EL20.MAA.
(6) Click on the View tab.  You see the four-element Yagi for 20 meters.
(7) Move slide bars at the bottom of the window to change the view.
(8) Click on the Compute tab.
(9) Select the In Free Space box in the Ground Set pane.
(10)  Push the Start button at the bottom left of the window.  You have the impedance, gain, F/B ratio, etc in the table.
(11)  Click on the Far Field Plot tab.  You see the beam pattern.
(12)  Click on the View tab.  You see the current distribution on the elements.
(13)  Click on the Options menu and select Optimization.
(14)  Push the All elements button at the bottom of the window.
(15)  Push the Start button.  You see MMANA optimizing the antenna.  You can view how the optimization is being done by clicking on the View, Compute, or Far Field Plot tab.
(16)  You will be asked gSave optimization sheet as .mao file?h  Push NO.

This is a quick start of the MMANA.  Again, it has many functions to play with.  It is a good idea to open several more antenna definition files (*.MAA) in the ANT directory.

Enjoy!
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