MFJ sells some products that claim to be VNAs:
Only the last of those three has two ports and therefore can plausibly
claim to be a VNA. The description suggests it's based on the miniVNA. It
costs $340 and covers 1-170 MHz. Aside from that I know nothing about it.
I will pass. If I were planning to spend that much on a VNA I'd look
somewhere other than MFJ. I'll stick with my H4 for now; if I were doing
UHF and low-microwave work I'd be thinking about the SAA2.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:33 PM Frank Howell <frankmhowell@...>
wrote:
Dave,
I'm not arguing. I am discussing the statements about the MFJ-259 and the
NanoVNA. The 259 does not claim to be a VNA ("The NANOVNA's come *far*
closer to
the HP 8753C capability than the MFJ products which claim to be VNA's").
That was part of my point. I've used ALL of MFJ's analyzers...at the
factory, walking through them with Martin. So I do beg to differ in your
first posting which is what I wished to clarify.
Yep, we can all see who's is bigger..eh, whose workbench is deeper, more
expensive, etc. That's not what I'm doing here. I'm merely pointing out the
the 259 and the NanoVNA are not legitimately comparable as they are
differently designed products and, as Pierre has posted, have different
markets. A torx and a Phillips are both screwdrivers. But neither work in
place of the other. An expensive Torx shouldn't be compared to a very cheap
Phillips either.
Have a nice day,
Frank
K4FMH
Shirley Dulcey KE1L