Joe Q. Smith, I believe in his EEVBlog posts, says it was for illustration as an example to others to write their own code and he didn¡¯t have time to respond to questions...which doesn¡¯t speak to your suggestion to release it as GPL.
Frank
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On Sep 3, 2019, at 8:10 AM, SPACE OPQA <spaceopqa@...> wrote:
Well,
Now that at least 3 new scripts/softwares are being shared with this community, the Joe Smith software is less important.
I wonder why does Joe Smith uses his own SW at the youtube videos if he knows no one will ever use it?
Here, for consideration:
I wish him many successful measurements... ;)
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:00 AM, Frank Howell wrote:
I agree! I know Joe Smith has said that he does not have time to support it
and that drives his decision to not release it. I fully get that.
Seems like three options if he would release it:
A. Absolutely no support or Qs regarding the software. Period.
B. A group member or members who program in the Labview environment undertake
a bargain with Joe to make suggestions regarding any Qs. Joe says he¡¯d only
release it in a compiled executable so that limits a fuller understanding of
the code.
C. Option B with Joe taking on a partner or team who has non-redistribution
access to the Labview code with Joe doing the code development as he sees fit
and the others handling any and all Q&A and advising Joe on future directions.
Joe Smith is busy like the rest of us. His videos are excellent, imho. But his
current software is compelling to NanoVNA owners. So, there we are...
Frank
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On Aug 20, 2019, at 9:42 AM, SPACE OPQA <spaceopqa@...> wrote:
I wish Joe Smith would share his software to the community...
Already have TDR included...
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 13:45, Larry Rothman <ac293@...> wrote:
John,
ALL< NanoVNAs being sold use Hugen's firmware at this point in time -
either the original public release from last May or the latest August
release and either the 300MHz 4 trace version, the 300MHz 2 trace version
or one the 800 or 900MHz versions.
As stated a few posts back, this project is OPEN-SOURCE and anyone is free
to copy it as they see fit. The only drawback was a few copies had a less
than optimal PCB front-end layout - but they STILL WORK.
I was on both the hugen79 and ttrftech Github repos this morning and both
have had updates made in the last 2-3 days.
Have a look at Joe Smith's Youtube videos - search YT for nanovna and also
look in this forum's Wiki and Files sections.
Cheers,
Larry - ve3lri
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