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Hi Jerry,

I started with one or two files that looked from the titles like "newbie start here". I may have been directed to the first one from a message posted here. I quickly found out how to turn it on. Then I found how to calibrate it, how, why, when. I already knew enough about it to run it and avoid damaging it before the battery could be charged:)

I never saw or used a VNA before. I almost never heard of a VNA before. I quickly found out about the expensive ones. This one is good enough.

When I was 10 I learned about the libraries. Not the software files. The book repositories. For younger list members libraries are places where they have books of all sorts that you can borrow. You can do research in libraries to help find the books you may want to borrow. People called librarians will even help you find what you are looking for. In the library you can look up explanations of the new words that you encounter while reading those borrowed library books. I learned to use the libraries when I was 9. I am very sure adults can learn to use them too.

If that sounds like a lot of work you can go to the internet and use Google or other search engines. They function close to the same as the libraries with maybe a little more duff. When you encounter new words and ideas by all means follow the rabbit holes to an understanding. Yes..it takes time and effort. I already did it. I cannot do it for you. The authors here cannot do it for you. You must consume it for yourself.

To be fair I have used sweepers with markers and O'scopes so the basic idea is not entirely unfamiliar. At this time I am acquiring a better understanding of Smith charts :)

Books and articles about ideas and concepts that are new to you come with bibliographies. Those will point you to other books with even more information. That is akin to those pesky 'links' on the web pages.

73,

Bill KU8H

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