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Re: How about 2 major streams of firmware for the NanoVNA: Hobby and Experimental?


 

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 02:47 PM, Larry Rothman wrote:


1.hobby grade << two trace, large font, Ham-centric radio development and
testing version
I think two traces is not enough for hobby grade. For example, if you're tuning some bandpass filter you're want to see S11 logmag, S21 logmag and VSWR. Sometimes it even needs to show also S11 phase track. Usually I'm using all 4 tracks for hobby grade tasks, they configured in the following way:
1) S11
2) S21
3) VSWR
4) Smith.

These tracks are enough for almost all hobby grade tasks, and usually I just don't needs to change tracks, because all information already on the screen just after power on. Sometimes I change 4 track from Smith to Phase or Phase Delay.

Regarding to font size, just compare how looks AA version and normal versions (see screenshots).
As you can see AA version can't show that frequency is 123'456'789 Hz.

When you're using it for hobby grade, you're needs to tune Crystal filters with 3 kHz bandwidth. So, if device show you frequency with 1 kHz resolution, it is not enough. Because hobby grade ham radio amateur wants to see it with at least ¡À100 Hz resolution or even better.

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