An antenna modeling application for amateur radio operators, from beginner to advanced. Part of the ARS Suite family.
ARS WireWorks helps hams model antennas, understand the results, and walk outside with a build sheet they can actually use. It teaches as it goes — from a form-driven Basic Mode up to full NEC-2 control in Advanced Mode.
Project status: early scaffold. No features are implemented yet. See
docs/spec.mdfor the full specification and the session-by-session build plan.
End users do not need to install Python — ARS WireWorks ships as a standalone installer for each platform.
ARS WireWorks ships as a Debian package and as an AppImage — you do not need to install Python.
Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives (.deb) — download
ars-wireworks_<version>.deb from the
Releases page and install it:
sudo apt install ./ars-wireworks_<version>.debThen launch ARS WireWorks from your application menu, or run wireworks
from a terminal.
Other distributions (AppImage) — download
ARS_WireWorks-<version>-x86_64.AppImage, make it executable, and run it:
chmod +x ARS_WireWorks-<version>-x86_64.AppImage
./ARS_WireWorks-<version>-x86_64.AppImageThe AppImage is self-contained and needs no installation.
Windows (.msi) and macOS (signed .dmg) installers are built from the same
Briefcase configuration; the build steps are in
docs/release.md. Like the Linux packages, they bundle
their own Python — there is nothing else to install.
Placeholder — walkthrough to be written.
ARS WireWorks runs entirely on your computer.
Skill tracking is local-only. There is no telemetry of any kind. Skill tracking is optional and turned off by default. When you enable it, it is stored solely in a local JSON file in your user data directory, and is used only to suggest which lesson to try next — it never gates any feature.
ARS WireWorks makes no network calls, sends no telemetry, performs no cloud sync, and has no accounts or analytics. Nothing about your models, your usage, or your station ever leaves your machine.
docs/spec.md— full product specification.docs/developer.md— local development setup.docs/release.md— build, packaging, and signing.
ARS WireWorks is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public
License v3.0 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later). See LICENSE for the
full text.