Re: Common ground and 2-port measuring
Hi Jerry, You're absolutely right. It's not all or nothing. A semantically better way to say it is: RF current always favors the path of least impedance. The degree of "favor" is divided between paths
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DP
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Re: Perfect SWR with dummy load, but huge with antenna
The measure of a "good" antenna is how well it performs. When I lived in a house with a lot bigger yard a few years ago I had a 40 meter vertical full-wave loop antenna (~12 feet high and ~58 feet
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Zack Widup
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Re: Should I upgrade firmware, and if so which version to use?
You're correct. I was thinking about it and tried it: the NanoVNA does go to 900 MHZ. And all this time I thought that since the default stop freq that it 'boots up with' is 250 Mhz that it was not
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M Walter
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#28757
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Re: Common ground and 2-port measuring
Hello Ed, I have not much now to look into this, but this article: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01886795/document Gives your method (Fig 3b and Fig 7a. So one can measure some aspects of the
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Victor Reijs
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#28756
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Re: Should I upgrade firmware, and if so which version to use?
it should go to 900 (3rd harmonic) or 1.5 g (fith overtone) dg9bfc sigi (sorry i can not help with fw cause i am a v2 user that has a clock to over 4g) Am 11.07.2022 um 18:44 schrieb m2walter@...:
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Siegfried Jackstien
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Re: Perfect SWR with dummy load, but huge with antenna
Yes, indeed...... The measure of a "good" antenna is not SWR. Of course, a 1:1 in a 50-ohm non-reactive system is essential to keep the transmitter output stage happy, but does not measure how good an
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W0LEV
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Should I upgrade firmware, and if so which version to use?
I have an original NanoVNA: it only goes up to 250 MHz. Can I upgrade the firmware and obtain additional functionality? If the firmware can be upgraded which version should I load. Tks. Mark Walter
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M Walter
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#28753
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Re: Ubuntu PPA or .deb installation
Thanks.
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Nickko - ON9NG
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Re: Ubuntu PPA or .deb installation
I build a deb package with the command "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb". You need the debian package "python3-stdeb" (Python to Debian source
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Ho-Ro
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Re: Perfect SWR with dummy load, but huge with antenna
Yes, you are right, but how do you check radiated electromagnetic field ! Tell us how you do 73 -- F1AMM Fran?ois
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F1AMM <18471@...>
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Re: Perfect SWR with dummy load, but huge with antenna
be careful not to have a dummy load @swr1.1! what is important is the radiated power! so not only check SWR but also radiated electromagnetic field! 73 F6CNG Olivier [email protected]> a ¨¦crit :
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olivier LAVAUX
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Re: Common ground and 2-port measuring
Hi Victor, Thanks for your feedback, you ask a good question concerning its validity. I¡¯m not aware of any specific articles on the technique I mentioned, I derived that configuration from a simple
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Ed G8FAX
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Re: Common ground and 2-port measuring
Jerry, Precisely correct, Interestingly, when I first heard that: "always takes the path of least resistance"?statement it was within the context of the propensity of a lightning strike. The tallest,
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Chris Gardner
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Re: Common ground and 2-port measuring
Actually, that's a common, but incorrect statement. Current - RF or otherwise - always flows along ALL available paths, split according to the inverse of the resistance. To make it simple, let's say
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Jerry, AI0K
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Re: Common ground and 2-port measuring
Tnx Dave! Nice and short write-up of what's happening. 73 Arie PA3A Op 8-7-2022 om 19:57 schreef DP:
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Arie Kleingeld PA3A
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Re: Fake NanoVNA? Or short between the headset :)
I put here my log of the installation on Windows but this log is in French. I can send it to you in Word if you want to translate it. http://hobbys.free.fr/ftp/nanovna-saver_installation.pdf At home 2
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F1AMM <18471@...>
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Re: Fake NanoVNA? Or short between the headset :)
Are you certain that you have the correct port selected for the NanoVNA? And are you certain that the software on the NanoVNA is reasonably current? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail.
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Tim Dawson
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Re: Fake NanoVNA? Or short between the headset :)
In about 75 seconds the NanoVNA Saver main screen finally shows up. But when I try to connect to the VNA comm port it quickly times out: NanoVNASaver.Hardware.NanoVNA_2 - ERROR - Timeout reading
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Douglas Butler
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Re: Fake NanoVNA? Or short between the headset :)
There is no problem using the RF Demo kit with any NanoVNA. If you are having calibration problems check the cal loads with a DMM to make sure you have an open, load and short. Calibrate right on the
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Roger Need
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#28741
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Re: Fake NanoVNA? Or short between the headset :)
NanoVNA Saver was written in python and all the necessary files to run are "packaged" in the .exe file. Each one is scanned by the virus scanner and it takes a long time to load because of this. On
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Roger Need
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