They arrive as .maa files, mostly. Sometimes a zipped constellation of NEC2 imports, trembling on the edge of conversion. The engineer calls them models . But I know better.
And when you finally transmit — when the RF leaves the feedpoint and climbs toward the sky — the antenna file closes. mmana-gal antenna files
We upload them to groups.io, where they float in the archive like messages in bottles. Some will never be downloaded. Others will open on a laptop in a shipping container, in a field day tent, in a hospital room where the only window is the one on the screen. They arrive as
The real conversation begins. For all who have debugged a .maa file at 3 AM, and for all the voices still traveling, still looking for a place to land. But I know better