How come everyone keeps writing Windows software?

I don't run Windows...

Note: these are all .tgz files. download, extract (tar -xzvf ), and then run Make. Should be simple enough so that it'll run on anything.

• Yagi Scale This little utility helps do some rudimentary yagi antenna adjustments. I quickly hacked it up because I wanted to build a few yagis, and I had no 3/16" rod (a little 3/8" aluminum, and I did have plenty of 1/2" nominal type L copper tubing (5/8" OD)). These allowed me to take a given design and recalculate it for (1) new frequency (2) new element diameter.

Note: don't pretend that this is a good way to program. Remember that I like spaghetti... and most people think that spaghetti is evil.

Links to other people's software

• Yagi-Uda from Dr. David Kirkby. This is some excellent analysis/optimisation software for Unix (compiles readily on Linux). This software allows you to take a Yagi design, check it for basics (like SWR, gain, F/B), and then optimise it so it's better. Easy to use, and yes it will draw pictures if you have GNUplot available (you probably do). I have only found one or two bugs in the software, neither of which affects functionality significantly (the notable one is the frequency output routine has a typo which causes it to print out 146000000 Mhz instead of 146.0 Mhz).
• Xastir X Amateur Station Tracking Information Reporting. This is a nice APRS implementation for X/Linux. I can manage to run it with acceptable performance on my Pentium 90 laptop, with just 48 megs of RAM and a 700 meg disk.