Folks,
A number of you were commenting on maybe using female N connectors on this unit but were concerned about breaking the SMA connectors off the circuit board.
I did a little 'doodle' at lunchtime about how I thought you could fabricate a steel bracket to hold two N-SMA adapters to the NanoVNA.
If you are no sure of mounting at the one end of the device, you could always use a thicker plate steel and use it to replace the entire rear panel of the VNA. That would provide more rigidity as would sides to the bracket - In fact, a solid back cover could be produced that had sides to cover the edges of the VNA.
Anyone who has worked with sheet metal can make this very easily, although I would not use aluminum/brass/copper - too flexible.
Probably 18-20 gauge would be ideal.
I have another drawing to add that shows a rear cover plate - probably Tuesday (gotta get back to work)
