Exactly my thoughts Bob! A 6GHz capable unit is high on my priority list for the same reasons.
73,
Randy
NC8U
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On Feb 6, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Bob KV4PC <robert.ehresman@...> wrote:
There is lots of discussion in this thread about what the market is.
I understand there is a calculus regarding cost vs how units will sell and there exists a perception of what the community wants these for.
I am a ham and an ARES member, and the group that serves my county is interested in setting up a high speed Mesh Radio data network. My perception is this particular desire amounts to a world wide movement.
Within the hobby, the technologies are referred to as High Speed Multimedia (HSMM), Broadband Hamnet (BBHN), Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) and others.
There are also groups, not necessarily hams, setting up networks entirely within the confines of ISM unlicensed operations.
As such, the equipment used are consumer grade hackable WIFI access points, brick amplifiers, filters, commercial antennas, and the like. The bands of operation range from 70cm to 5cm, with the bulk of equipment being used operating at 2.4, 3.4, or 5.8 GHz. This is, in my opinion, is the Amateur market for a lower cost 6 GHz capable VNA, and my own primary interest in owning such as this.
While it may be true that the mesh radio experimentors are largely a plug and play crowd who dont build much from scratch and buy their antennas, sadly there is alot of junk on the market, or antennas being marketed with exuberantly exaggerated specifications, or shipped with manufacturing defects and an instrument to confirm performance would be a game changer. It is my belief that microwave experimentors of this class may be very receptive.
73;
Bob KV4PC
