I want to add to the list please?
You want the nanoVNA so you can read the "antenna system" into your
computer. Save the results. Then open up a program called
SimSmith and analyze your system and THEN most importantly let SimSmith
help you make your antenna system better.
Your just starting when you get to this point. Because now you want to take
the information from SimSmith and make corrections to your antenna system
and then remeasure your results.
Measuring your antenna is just one step.
Importing the information into your computer is another step.
Using a Computer Aided Engineering program is the next step.
Making significant changes to your antenna system and then remeasuring the
system is the next step. It goes on from here.
In order to stay on the air you may want to do as I want to do and put up
two antennas for each band, one to make changes to and the other so your
not off the air while your making up the changes to the first antenna.
I hope this makes the difference a little more clear. And I want to add
that a computer Aided Engineering program is the secret sauce. I could not
make all those calculations by hand.
Thanks for the air time,
Enjoy
NE7LS
On Mon, May 11, 2020, 2:17 PM Jim Allyn - N7JA <jim@...>
wrote:
You might find the MFJ easier to use if all you want to do is check SWR,
but if you want more details, you want the NanoVNA. I own two of them,
will probably buy an H4 soon, and will also buy the V2 when available.
For all the reasons Dave gave, and more.
