Re: Best Way to Measure Antenna SWR
Bryan The attached drawings should answer your questions. The wire was bent to fit my garden. Performance is very good, with 100W SSB QSOs from my QTH near London to the US midwest, South America and
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Mike
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#33695
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Re: Nano VNA SAVER graphs of a 40m loop antenna
How high Barry?
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alan victor
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#33694
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Re: Nano VNA SAVER graphs of a 40m loop antenna
So, it's just a tad too long to center on the band. But if you're a CW operator, perfect. Dave - W?LEV -- Dave - W?LEV
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W0LEV
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#33693
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Re: Front end overload
Thank you, Zack and Robin for the reply. I bought a NANO VNA and had second thoughts about using it to measure an AM radio station tower, given the presence of another local AM signal. I might make an
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Greg Strickland
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#33692
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Nano VNA SAVER graphs of a 40m loop antenna
I just put up a full one-wavelength (140 ft) 40 meter loop antenna for NVIS over the MidAtlantic area. testing with my 3 yr old Nano VNA reveals no surprises using Nano VNA SAVER to make these graphs
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Barry K3EUI
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#33691
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Re: Front end overload
Adding to Zack's reply, the first active device that the input encounters is an SA612 mixer chip. The data sheet (from NXP) suggests that compression non-linearity starts at around -30 dBm, and is -1
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G8DQX list
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Re: Front end overload
I believe it's 10 dBm (10 mW). Do you really mean 1000 kHz? That's in the AM broadcast band. That's a vertical of almost 250 feet. That will probably produce way too much overload. Zack W9SZ
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Zack Widup
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#33689
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Re: Best Way to Measure Antenna SWR
Mike, Tell us more about your antenna. What length is your EFHW? Did your EFHW have a reflector stub of some length connected to the shield side or is it fed straight to coax? Any choke in the line at
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Bryan Curl
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Re: Best Way to Measure Antenna SWR
You can do both. If you calibrate with the SOLT loads at the cable end you will get the antenna impedance. If you calibrate at the nano-vna end you will get the line plus antenna.
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F4WCV
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#33687
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Front end overload
Pardon the basic question. What is the approximate maximum input port RF voltage before damaging the device? Let's say I hook it up to a tower in a location with about 100 millivolts per meter of
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Greg Strickland
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Re: Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
Thank you Roger, and your math example helps to clarify. Keith N3KXZ
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Keith Ostertag
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#33685
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Re: Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
The |S21| transmission coefficient indicates the insertion loss or gain of your amplifier on a linear scale. It gives you the transmission ratio (output magnitude/input magnitude) in the forward
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Roger Need
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Re: Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
Thank you Dave and Stan. So would the |S21| linear graph vertical axis have units? Or is it unit-less? (if that is the correct term)
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Keith Ostertag
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Re: Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
I think in you saver graph that the |s21| plot is just the linear representation of the magnitude of the reflection coefficient (max value 1). The top graph, called logmag s21, is a logarithmic
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Stan Dye
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Re: Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
No attachment. I'll try attaching the grahic. Dave - W?LEV [email protected]> wrote:
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W0LEV
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Re: Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
Here is a graphical - no math - representation of what the S-Parmeters indicate. It is usually assumed to be in a 50 +/- j0 ohm system. [image: image.png] S11: With the output (right side) properly
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W0LEV
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Basic questions on nanovna-saver and IF filter plots
Here is a link to a nanovna-saver plot of my current IF filter: https://card16.com/if_filter-8-10.jpg The bandwidth is a bit narrow. How does the ripple look? A few basic questions: 1) What exactly is
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Keith Ostertag
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Re: Best Way to Measure Antenna SWR
The minimums are almost the same. . . thanks for the measurement. Vy 73, Roger DL2YDP
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Roger DL2YDP
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Re: Best Way to Measure Antenna SWR
Second time lucky ... -- Mike G8GYW
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Mike
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Re: Best Way to Measure Antenna SWR
Here's an EFHW I measured at the antenna and in the shack. First I calibrated the NanoVNA at the far end of the feeder (18 metres long and about 0.5dB loss) and measured the VSWR there. Then I
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Mike
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