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Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.1.0
Hi Rune,
thank you very much for your quick answer! Please tell me the trick where I can change the number of points prior to calibration. I didn't find that yet. I think the following measurements are relevant: Band pass -3dB, -6dB, and -60dB bandwidth. The same for bandstop. To measure a low pass or a high pass filter: -3dB right down and -3dB left down. Kind regards Norbert, DG1KPN |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.1.0
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the application can run calibrations at far more than 401 points - I have certainly done 5050 points at one point. ;-) But it does this in the application, and not on the device, due to the hardware limitations. I agree that a function to find cut-off frequencies for filters etc. would be interesting, and I've put it on the list of features I would like to implement for the next version, ie. for next week. I don't make any promises though :-) What measurements would be relevant to provide? Cut-off frequency, span for band-pass, dB/octave and dB/decade fall-off, pass-band ripple? -- Rune / 5Q5R On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 11:12, <norbert.kohns@...> wrote:
Hi Rune, |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.1.0
Hi Rune,
thank you for fixing this issue! I have a question for you in respect to the required number of data points to measure a band pass filter. With 101 points it is most likely not possible to find the -3 dB points because the sample point is way off from -3 dB on both sides of the band pass. With 401 points it would work. An automatic feature of measuring the bandwidth would be absolutely cool! The TAPR software is able to perform a calibration at 401 points or even more than that, so I am certain that you could do that as well. I have no glue on how difficult that would be, but more data points for calibration would be a huge improvement. Kind regards Norbert, DG1KPN |
Re: Is my Nanovna broken?
Thanks Rune,
I'll try both options. BTW this is running Linux & Python 3.74 version at home, work is much earlier so will have to wait I guess until later. I get the same output with the previous versions. Using putty I can get into it and it seems to be functioning. Used the putty/cli command to reset the calibration data 'cal reset' and it seems to function again, I get odd 2 billion results in the 4 traces though every now and then if try to alter frequency again. 72 Dom M1KTA |
Re: errors of "error" models
27 : Reproduction of (REGION , DEREDEI) Results and Graphics
@Jose Luu : /g/nanovna-users/message/3812 Hello Jose, Thank you very much for your proved interest on our work. Your message contents are really Great News for our Objective World ! Now, regarding the restricted - up to 6 characters long, with capital letters only - names of our variables, we can assure that we tried hard to conform ourselves with the requirements of FORTRAN IV without any extension, in order to make possible for our REGION program to be compiled and run under as much environments as is possible Nevertheless, from what you report we conclude that it may worth to look again into the current state of progress of openwatcom V2 fork. Thank you. And by the way, a word of clarification regarding our instructions at: 26 : Correction of Maxima Version and "Unpacked" DERDEI Code /g/nanovna-users/message/3770 Because of the existing restrictions in [maxima] GUI, it is not possible at all for the interested reader to Copy-and-Paste using his mouse all the way, so he has to use the key-combinations: [Ctrl][C]-and-[Ctrl][V]. Finally, allow us, please, to motivate you, as well as, any other interested reader, to try our /F/L/O/S/S/ on your measurements. One, of the many, possible use is to construct your real standard load with Nominal Value and Core Uncertainty depending in an * e x p l i c i t l y * k n o w n * way on the frequency - that is as we have already done with our ref2007box: 22 : AnyVNA From The Common User's Point Of View : A Practical Application of the Core Uncertainty Strips /g/nanovna-users/message/3340 Who can ask more than that ? Best regards, Nikolitsa OE3ZGN|SV7DMC and Petros OE3ZZP|SV7BAX 27 |
Re: Is my Nanovna broken?
Oh, a different issue: You set the segment count far, far too high (1000).
Try a value of 1 first, and see if that helps :-) -- Rune / 5Q5R On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 09:19 Rune Broberg via Groups.Io, <mihtjel= [email protected]> wrote: Hi Dom, |
Re: Is my Nanovna broken?
Hi Dom,
The application is receiving some weird data from you device - a value of about 2 billion, which is supposed to be in the range -1 to +1. ? Try doing a full calibration on the nanovna, including resetting the calibration first and saving it to save slot 0. If it still fails after that, there will have to be further investigation. I hope this helps! -- Rune / 5Q5R On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 08:35 Dom Baines M1KTA via Groups.Io, <dombaines= [email protected]> wrote: I cannot get this to work on startup using nanosaver and I get in the |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver: Testers wanted
Of course Larry, you've been a great help thus far! :-)
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I'll be doing alpha testing for each new version from here on. -- Rune / 5Q5R On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 00:38 Larry Goga, <lgoga@...> wrote:
Hello Rune, |
Re: How does VNA get the phase angle of S11
You have the test signal from the SI5351 send to the bridge but also to the "reference" mixer, in the reference mixer it is mixed with the output of the Local Oscillator (LO) which also comes from the SI5351.
The unbalance of the bridge goes to the "reflection" mixer where it is mixed with the same LO. The LO is at 5kHz offset from the test signal so the output of both mixers is a IF signal at 5kHz. Both IF's are then read into the controller using the ADC and in a DSP algorithm in the controller the IF's are going to DSP mixers where they are mixed with two 5kHz signals 90 degrees apart (I/Q mixer) to create a DC signal. The DC signals (I and Q) are the real and imaginary part of the complex downconverted reference and reflection input to the HW mixers. As you do not know the actual angle of amplitude of the test signal the complex test signal is divided by the complex reference signal to eliminate the phase and amplitude uncertainty. The outcome of this division is the unbalance of the bridge scaled relative to the reference signal, both in magnitude and angle. Attached a small pdf that contains the block diagram of a VNA using the same mechanism |
Is my Nanovna broken?
I cannot get this to work on startup using nanosaver and I get in the logfile ...
2019-10-03 07:33:37,745 - NanoVNASaver - INFO - Startup... 2019-10-03 07:33:37,829 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing SweepWorker 2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Found NanoVNA (0483 5740) on port /dev/ttyACM0 2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Building user interface 2019-10-03 07:33:37,973 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Finished building interface 2019-10-03 07:33:51,682 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Opening serial port /dev/ttyACM0 2019-10-03 07:33:52,100 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - info Kernel: 4.0.0 Compiler: GCC 5.4.1 20160919 Architecture: ARMv6-M Core Variant: Cortex-M0 Port Info: Preemption through NMI Platform: STM32F072xB Entry Level Medium Density devices Board: NanoVNA Build time: Aug 2 2019 - 16:40:01 ch> 2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Read starting frequency 100000 and end frequency 150000 2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Starting initial sweep 2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing SweepWorker 2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - 1000 sweeps 2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Parsed sweep range as 100000 to 150000 2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep segment no 0 2019-10-03 07:33:52,267 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Setting sweep range to 100000 to 100000 2019-10-03 07:33:52,568 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading frequencies 2019-10-03 07:33:52,784 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading data 0 2019-10-03 07:33:52,994 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Read 101 values 2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - WARNING - Got a non-float data value: 2147483647.147483647 2147483647.147483647 (2147483647.147483647) 2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Re-reading data 0 repeats until 2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - CRITICAL - Tried and failed to read data 0 20 times. Giving up. 2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep segment no 1 2019-10-03 07:34:06,251 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Stopping sweeping as signalled 2019-10-03 07:34:06,258 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Resetting NanoVNA sweep to full range: 100000 to 150000 2019-10-03 07:34:06,260 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sending "finished" signal Anyone? No RF squirted into it, default as delivered. Cannot see more than one trace. |
Re: Installed recent firmware - was this a big mistake?
From: Oristo
In reality, USB does not work that way. Here are "real" supported USB speeds: USB 1.0/Low-Speed: 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps) USB 1.1/Full-Speed: 12 Mbps. USB 2.0/Hi-Speed: 480 Mbps. USB 3.0/SuperSpeed: 5 Gbps. USB 3.1/SuperSpeed: 10 Gbps. Setting some bps is supported for virtual COM (AKA CDC device) to chips (eg. FTDi) at the other end which interface USB to real serial (RS-422 or 232 or whatever).. There is no such interface at the STM32 chip in nanoVNA,. Speed is determined by which USB speed gets negotiated at plugin detection time and buffer sizes implemented. ==================================== Here, I experienced that a USB 5 GHz Wi-Fi dongle was substantially slowed in speed by having a USB mouse plugged into the same hub. So some USB appears to "work that way". Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: Email: david-taylor@... Twitter: @gm8arv |
Re: errors of "error" models
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I installed maxima and ran the visualizer, it worked OK giving the expected figures. I have also taken a look at the fortran code, and I am not done yet, it is difficult to read as it is written in strict fortran 77 using the 6 character variable names. Such short variable names makes it difficult (for about 20% of the names) to understand the intent of the variable or function. You may consider using longer variable names as 32 character variables names are supported in watcom fortran 2.0 (not sure for 1.9) and 31 character variable names in the fortran 90 standard and gnu fortran. You may also consider indenting the loops and conditionals to ease reading. Regards Jose On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 1:47 PM yza <yzaVNA@...> wrote:
26 : Correction of Maxima Version and "Unpacked" DERDEI Code |
Re: Which Firmware Version?
I did not get that from the user guide.? But your explanation works for me.? I have not connected with a terminal program yet...
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Thank!Mike WY6K On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 09:29:27 PM CDT, hwalker <herbwalker2476@...> wrote:
Mike, Did you checkout the user manuals in the "Files" section of this group?? Basically there are two methods: 1. If you have the latest firmware installed then there is a new menu option that allows you to perform a screen calibration. 2. If you have the original firmware then you have to connect the NanoVNA to a computer and use a terminal program to perform the calibration. Herb |
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