Processing Times

The time required to analyze an antenna depends on many factors—the clock speed of the processor, the amount of memory installed, the number of tasks running concurrently on the system and, of course, the number of wire segments required to define the antenna.

The data in the table below shows the time required to solve for all center-frequency output products, including the 3D Far Field Pattern with contour lines every five degrees.

An adequate amount of installed memory is more beneficial than a high processor clock speed.

Antenna	System A Pentium III 500 MHz Clock 256 MB Memory Windows 2000	System B Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Clock 1024 MB Memory Windows XP	System C Pentium 4 3.6 GHz Clock 2048 MB Memory Windows XP
8 Element 15 Meter Yagi 280 Pulses Free Space	6 Seconds	7 Seconds	1 Second
32 Element LPDA 706 Pulses Free Space	21 Seconds	11 Seconds	9 Seconds
32 Element LPDA 706 Pulses Over Average Sommerfeld Ground	1 Minute, 44 Seconds	38 Seconds	23 Seconds
Rhombic 1,196 Pulses Over Average Sommerfeld Ground	4 Minutes, 56 Seconds	1 Minute, 33 Seconds	50 Seconds
Chireix-Mesney Array 1,916 Pulses Free Space	2 Minutes, 40 Seconds	44 Seconds	30 Seconds
Three-Wire Rhombic 5,600 Pulses Over Average Sommerfeld Ground	—	31 Minutes	16 Minutes
Three-Wire Rhombic 8,052 Pulses Over Average Sommerfeld Ground	—	1 Hour, 43 Minutes	34 Minutes

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