Re: Different SWR/Smith plots, when off center dipole wire connections to transformer reversed?
Just for fun, I fed my original post into ChatGPT to see if "she" had any insights, and here was "her" response.....a fun exercise..
"What you're describing is a fascinating experiment! It sounds
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Bruce KX4AZ
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#39828
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
Are you having problems. If it works all right, why bother changing. Yes, new models sure look good. Like Pro model of https://www.tindie.com/products/hcxqsgroup/nanovna-v2-plus4/ But if it
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Leif M
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#39827
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
Ali Express should be legit. But I have purchased a NanoVNA H4, TinySA and
TinySA Ultra as well as many other products from R & L Electronics. They
are legitimate and reliable and have great
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Zack Widup
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#39826
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Re: Different SWR/Smith plots, when off center dipole wire connections to transformer reversed?
Yeah, I've been thinking about that...although I will note that the laptop was NOT plugged into the AC adapter when I made the two measurements. What I'll try on my next visit will be to leave the
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Bruce KX4AZ
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
Try amazon AURSINC NanoVNA-F V2 Vector Network Analyzer 50KHz-3GHz Antenna Analyzer 4.3inch Screen
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CLIFTON HEAD
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#39824
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Apologetic Intro Message
Just joined and here goes my newbie message. Sorry.
(1) I have an H4 from 2020 with the 0.5.0 FW version. I am guessing that an upgrade would be in order?
(2) Also looking into an "F" and saw some
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k6whp
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#39823
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Re: Measuring inductance
I would calibrate the NanoVNA again with binding posts. I would use something like 30MHz-100MHz, 900MHz is surely too much. (Like others have said.) When the Vna asks "open" I would leave the
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Leif M
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#39822
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Re: Different SWR/Smith plots, when off center dipole wire connections to transformer reversed?
That shows the parasitic coupling is different for each side of the bedroom HI
And as left leg lenght is different of right one, if the left side of the bedroom is ??more?? parastic than the
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Benjamin ON5BGO
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#39821
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Re: Measuring inductance
Hello
To perform this type of measurement, I use two BNC sockets bolted to a printed circuit board. I solder the components. This way, I can create a shunt or a series connection. I connect the SOL
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Fran?ois
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#39820
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Re: Am I in the right track ?
Roger,
The only thing I can think of right now, may be in relation with the fact even though I ordered my inductor / capacitor design kit for RF, the test frequency of the inductors is 100MHz. The
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Nico
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#39819
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Re: Am I in the right track ?
Roger,
Thanks for the idea. I already tried sending them an email a while ago for that exact request ! The phone is still ringing, nobody answered yet at the other end ;( But I should throw the
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Nico
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#39818
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Re: Erratic traces with SAA2N
The RF switch is damaged and can be restored by replacing the MXD8641.
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Hugen
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#39817
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Re: Measuring inductance
Good point on the upper frequency limit of home brew (and some
professional) fixtures. My home brew fixture which uses alligator clips
instead of binding posts has an upper limit of 100 MHz. I
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W0LEV
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#39816
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Re: Measuring inductance
The inductance you measure at the operating frequency is the value that influences the circuit. Some people reserve the word inductance for the value an inductor exhibits at low frequencies where
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Brian Beezley
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#39815
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Re: Measuring inductance
I posted about my binding post and PCB OSL a few years ago. For best results you need to keep the slit in the middle as wide as possible and the same for all 3 boards. You also need to connect the
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Roger Need
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#39814
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Re: Measuring inductance
Something is wrong. NOTHING should show outside of the Smith Chart for
S11, the green trace after a proper calibration is completed!
While the following has been mentioned many times:
1) Did you
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W0LEV
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#39813
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Re: Measuring inductance
for just a few nanohenry you need to make your calibration very exact ... i would not try to exactly finetune it ... i would see if i am close .. then build my filter and tune the filter with all
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Siegfried Jackstien
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Re: Different SWR/Smith plots, when off center dipole wire connections to transformer reversed?
you would need a choke below the transformer to decouple the shield of the coax being part of the antenna (and then it would still couple a bit to the antenna cause all couples with all in an indoor
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Siegfried Jackstien
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#39811
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Measuring inductance
Hello, new to this group. I've learned a lot from reading here, but i seem to have run into some issues and could use some advice. I'm building a low pass filter, and trying to learn to measure
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KJ5FRJ
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#39810
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Re: Different SWR/Smith plots, when off center dipole wire connections to transformer reversed?
The transformer does not decouple the nanovna and PC/laptop and, therefore,
anything conductive within the house from the measurement. If you used
only the NANOVNA connected to NOTHING, not even
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W0LEV
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#39809
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