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QAntenna: a multiplatform antenna and radiation pattern analyzer Introduction and motivations QAntenna is a multiplatform Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), released under the GPL. It's aim is to provide to the scientific community with a program to view and analyze antennas and their radiation patterns, and in the near future, any information that NEC2++'s output can provide. QAntenna's developers are also willing to improve the program to accept XML formatted data as soon as NEC2++ implements it. The program was written originally to fullfil two objectives: create a libre software to allow students to have a tool to analyze antennas at no cost and to present it as a final work for the subject Principios de Computadoras II, Electronic Engineering grade course at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. Because at the university there's a variety of OSs running, the software is designed to be multiplatform. And, as the original programmers were Linux and KDE desktop users following a curse on OO programming, the idea to use Trolltech's Qt 4 libraries were thought as the most appropiate for the project. The program was first intended to be a direct replace for Antennavis, written in Tcl/Tk. As Antennavis' source code wasn't written in an OO language, it was decided to write QAntenna from scratch. The visualization would be created using OpenGL, the standard for multiplatform visualization programs. Dependencies: * Qt >= 4.2 * Glut * necpp (nec2 if changed in datamanager.cpp)