Wire antenna calculator

Eleven antennas you can build from copper wire and an SMA connector, each one solved on the GPU rather than guessed at.

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Modelled SWR, 50 Ω reference

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Solver: thin-wire Method of Moments, pulse basis with point matching, delta-gap feed, perfect conductor and free space. Validated against a half-wave dipole: it puts resonance at 0.4705 λ against a textbook 0.475 λ, R = 71 Ω against about 70, and directivity 2.25 dBi against 2.15. Trust it most on straight elements (dipole, Yagi, ground plane, discone) where it matches theory closely. Treat the Moxon and the quad with suspicion: their behaviour depends on coupling across a very small tip gap, which this basis resolves badly, and the solver disagrees with the published dimensions there. Wire-grid stand-ins for the biquad plate and the helix ground plane are coarse, so their impedance is indicative at best.