{"id":26815,"date":"2021-03-11T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26815"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:38:00","slug":"jerry-burke-14-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2021\/03\/11\/jerry-burke-14-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Burke, 14 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald J Burke, known as Jerry, was co-author of the Numerical Electromagnetics Code \/ Method of Moments (NEC\/MoM) antenna simulation software, passed away on 14 February 2021 after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26818\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Jerry-Burke-NEC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26818\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-26818\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Jerry-Burke-NEC-116x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Jerry-Burke-NEC-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Jerry-Burke-NEC-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/03\/Jerry-Burke-NEC.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many amateurs will be familiar with NEC images such as these.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Working with A Poggio, Jerry wrote the NEC software for the US Navy in 1981 while working at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Version 2 of the software (NEC2) was later publicly released and is now available on most computing platforms. A number of different &#8216;front end&#8217; systems have been written for the code, one of which (EZNEC) is widely used by amateurs for antenna modelling. Jerry continued developing the software up to the recently-released version 5 (which was discussed in the March 2021 edition of <em>RadCom<\/em>, p34). Whether or not they personally used one of the NEC variants, it is likely that a good fraction of amateurs own at least one antenna that was developed with the aid of Jerry&#8217;s software, and for that we owe him our gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald J Burke, known as Jerry, was co-author of the Numerical Electromagnetics Code \/ Method of Moments (NEC\/MoM) antenna simulation software, passed away on 14 February 2021 after a battle with cancer. Working with A Poggio, Jerry wrote the NEC software for the US Navy in 1981 while working at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Version 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}