---
name: "wiresview"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "jiffy-perl-tk"
version: "19990726-6"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wiresview"
---

# wiresview(1)

a program to view antennas

## NAME

  Wiresview - a program to view antennas

## SYNOPSIS

  wiresview

## DESCRIPTION

This program is written in Perl/Tk, and utilizes color to provide visualization of antennas described by input files for NEC2, (or somnec).

The program is simple to use.  The geometry of an antenna is described to NEC2 via a data file that contains, among other things, (usually many) lines of the form

GW tag segments x0 y0 z0 x1 y1 z1 radius

This line represents an antenna element whose endpoints have coordinates (x0,y0,z0) and (x1, y1, z1).

Some versions of NEC2 use an alternate data representation of the form

GWtag,segments,x0,y0,z0,x1,y1,z1,radius

**Wiresview** is able to read data lines of either form and provide a graphic representation of the antenna.   **Wiresview** makes no use of the contents of the NEC2 data file, other than to read the "GW" lines.

**Wiresview** reads the same data files that NEC2 does,  but the only data lines of interest to  **wiresview** are the lines which begin with "GW".   **Wiresview** does not attempt to follow any scaling in the data file, and instead provides its own scaling  for the visual window.

The NEC2 file which describes the antenna can be selected by using the mouse.  After the file is selected, the antenna is depicted in a window.  This window contains three canvases, providing "XY plane", "YZ plane", and "XZ plane" views of the same antenna. Each element of the antenna is colored differently, but any element is colored the same in all three canvases.

A sample data file which describes a rhombic is included.   **wiresview** has successfully modeled antennas with more than 1500 elements.

**Wiresview** is part of the W5GFE Antenna Toolkit.  It is released under terms of the GNU Public License.

## AUTHOR

Bill Walker, W5GFE, bw@cs.ecok.edu

## SEE ALSO

[jiffy-perl-tk(1)](/jiffy-perl-tk/1.md), [necview(1)](/necview/1.md), [elevation(1)](/elevation/1.md), [azimuth(1)](/azimuth/1.md)