This is a perfect application of the nanovna.
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If your nanovna has a recent version of firmware, I think 1.1 or better, it will have a "measure" item on the top menu. Select that, and choose the 'resonance' option. This puts a resonance display on the screen. Connect the cable stub, leaving it open at the far end. This enables the vna to see the resonance of that cable. The first resonance is at 1/4 wavelength, so just trim the cable until that reads your desired frequency. Make sure to consider the length of a connector that you will install - but that's not much of a concern at 7MHz. If your nanovna doesn't have that measure/resonance function, it is almost as easy. Just connect the cable in the same way, and set one of the traces on the vna to display S11 phase. To start, set the frequency range to something like 50kHz to 15MHz, just to get a feel for what you will see. With an open-ended cable attached, you will see a sawtooth pattern on the S11 phase trace. The position where the phase first does a 'zero crossing' from -180 to +180 (or vice versa) is the quarter wavelength resonance. Hopefully that is happening above 7.04MHz, and you can now set the top frequency to something like 7.5MHz, put your cursor on the desired 7.04MHz, and trim until the zero-crossing is at your cursor. The vna should be calibrated, of course, as always - but you can calibrate once across the desired range, say 6-8MHz, and then change the range as noted above to help see the zero crossing pattern. Good Luck. Stan On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 6:22 AM <blake_mulder@...> wrote:
If anyone can help with a guide or instructions, I need to cut a 90deg |