What is Yagi Mechanical®? Simply put, it is a user-friendly program created to help you design antenna elements that hold up to the stresses of a certain windspeed, and that have a specific resonant frequency. It is best used in conjunction with a program that can optimize antenna designs for electrical efficiency. This way, you can use Yagi Mechanical® to start a design, use another program (i.e. YO, AO, EZNEC, etc.) to refine the design, and apply those changes in Yagi Mechanical® to verify the mechanical stability of the refinements. Yagi Mechanical® even includes the ability to save files for AO and EZNEC and bi-directional transfer of files with YS and YO (so you can import files from those programs to YM, or export files from YM).
Some of you have experience with this process, and some of you are delving into it for the first time, but you all have an interest in creating your own antennas, making them strong and reliable, as well as crafting them to your own personal needs. The aim of Yagi Mechanical® is to foster that interest, and to make designing antennas as painless as possible. With the reliability and accuracy of well-known algorithms and similar programs, in addition to simple interfaces and running in Windows instead of DOS, this program is made to decrease frustration and increase productivity.
For those of you who have never designed antennas before, you will find it easy to jump into Yagi Mechanical® and get your designs from your head to the computer screen. And if you have experience designing antennas already, it should be even easier. To facilitate this, this manual includes both a guide for experienced antenna designers and a full detail run-down of everything in the program for beginners. So take a look through this manual, start up Yagi Mechanical®, and be on your way.