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Re: Another ebay deal?

 

Nice idea. I wonder how long those little u.fl connectors will last though.


Re: errors of "error" models

 

27 : Reproduction of (REGION , DEREDEI) Results and Graphics

@Jose Luu : /g/nanovna-users/message/3812

Hello Jose,

Thank you very much for your proved interest on our work.

Your message contents are really Great News for our Objective World !

Now, regarding the restricted - up to 6 characters long, with capital
letters only - names of our variables, we can assure that we tried hard
to conform ourselves with the requirements of FORTRAN IV without
any extension, in order to make possible for our REGION program
to be compiled and run under as much environments as is possible

Nevertheless, from what you report we conclude that it may worth to
look again into the current state of progress of openwatcom V2 fork.
Thank you.

And by the way, a word of clarification regarding our instructions at:

26 : Correction of Maxima Version and "Unpacked" DERDEI Code
/g/nanovna-users/message/3770

Because of the existing restrictions in [maxima] GUI, it is not possible
at all for the interested reader to Copy-and-Paste using his mouse all
the way, so he has to use the key-combinations: [Ctrl][C]-and-[Ctrl][V].

Finally, allow us, please, to motivate you, as well as, any other interested
reader, to try our /F/L/O/S/S/ on your measurements. One, of the many,
possible use is to construct your real standard load with Nominal Value
and Core Uncertainty depending in an * e x p l i c i t l y * k n o w n * way
on the frequency - that is as we have already done with our ref2007box:

22 : AnyVNA From The Common User's Point Of View :
A Practical Application of the Core Uncertainty Strips
/g/nanovna-users/message/3340

Who can ask more than that ?

Best regards,

Nikolitsa OE3ZGN|SV7DMC and Petros OE3ZZP|SV7BAX

27


Re: Is my Nanovna broken?

 
Edited

You tried sweep 50kHz span with 101*10 sweep.
I don't think NanoVNA capable below 50Hz RBW...
How about give more span with default 101 sweep?


Re: Is my Nanovna broken?

 

Oh, a different issue: You set the segment count far, far too high (1000).
Try a value of 1 first, and see if that helps :-)

--
Rune / 5Q5R

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 09:19 Rune Broberg via Groups.Io, <mihtjel=
[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Dom,
The application is receiving some weird data from you device - a value of
about 2 billion, which is supposed to be in the range -1 to +1. ?

Try doing a full calibration on the nanovna, including resetting the
calibration first and saving it to save slot 0. If it still fails after
that, there will have to be further investigation.

I hope this helps!

--
Rune / 5Q5R

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 08:35 Dom Baines M1KTA via Groups.Io, <dombaines=
[email protected]> wrote:

I cannot get this to work on startup using nanosaver and I get in the
logfile ...

2019-10-03 07:33:37,745 - NanoVNASaver - INFO - Startup...
2019-10-03 07:33:37,829 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing
SweepWorker
2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Found
NanoVNA
(0483 5740) on port /dev/ttyACM0
2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Building
user interface
2019-10-03 07:33:37,973 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Finished
building interface
2019-10-03 07:33:51,682 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Opening
serial port /dev/ttyACM0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,100 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - info
Kernel: 4.0.0
Compiler: GCC 5.4.1 20160919
Architecture: ARMv6-M
Core Variant: Cortex-M0
Port Info: Preemption through NMI
Platform: STM32F072xB Entry Level Medium Density devices
Board: NanoVNA
Build time: Aug 2 2019 - 16:40:01
ch>
2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Read
starting
frequency 100000 and end frequency 150000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Starting
initial sweep
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing
SweepWorker
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - 1000 sweeps
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Parsed sweep
range as 100000 to 150000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep
segment
no 0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,267 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Setting
sweep
range to 100000 to 100000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,568 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading
frequencies
2019-10-03 07:33:52,784 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading
data 0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,994 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Read 101
values
2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - WARNING - Got a
non-float data value: 2147483647.147483647 2147483647.147483647
(2147483647.147483647)
2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Re-reading
data 0
repeats until
2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - CRITICAL - Tried and
failed to read data 0 20 times. Giving up.
2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep
segment
no 1
2019-10-03 07:34:06,251 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Stopping
sweeping as signalled
2019-10-03 07:34:06,258 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Resetting
NanoVNA sweep to full range: 100000 to 150000
2019-10-03 07:34:06,260 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sending
"finished" signal

Anyone?

No RF squirted into it, default as delivered. Cannot see more than one
trace.






Re: Is my Nanovna broken?

 

Hi Dom,
The application is receiving some weird data from you device - a value of
about 2 billion, which is supposed to be in the range -1 to +1. ?

Try doing a full calibration on the nanovna, including resetting the
calibration first and saving it to save slot 0. If it still fails after
that, there will have to be further investigation.

I hope this helps!

--
Rune / 5Q5R

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 08:35 Dom Baines M1KTA via Groups.Io, <dombaines=
[email protected]> wrote:

I cannot get this to work on startup using nanosaver and I get in the
logfile ...

2019-10-03 07:33:37,745 - NanoVNASaver - INFO - Startup...
2019-10-03 07:33:37,829 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing
SweepWorker
2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Found NanoVNA
(0483 5740) on port /dev/ttyACM0
2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Building
user interface
2019-10-03 07:33:37,973 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Finished
building interface
2019-10-03 07:33:51,682 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Opening
serial port /dev/ttyACM0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,100 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - info
Kernel: 4.0.0
Compiler: GCC 5.4.1 20160919
Architecture: ARMv6-M
Core Variant: Cortex-M0
Port Info: Preemption through NMI
Platform: STM32F072xB Entry Level Medium Density devices
Board: NanoVNA
Build time: Aug 2 2019 - 16:40:01
ch>
2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Read starting
frequency 100000 and end frequency 150000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Starting
initial sweep
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing
SweepWorker
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - 1000 sweeps
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Parsed sweep
range as 100000 to 150000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep segment
no 0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,267 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Setting sweep
range to 100000 to 100000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,568 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading
frequencies
2019-10-03 07:33:52,784 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading data 0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,994 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Read 101
values
2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - WARNING - Got a
non-float data value: 2147483647.147483647 2147483647.147483647
(2147483647.147483647)
2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Re-reading
data 0
repeats until
2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - CRITICAL - Tried and
failed to read data 0 20 times. Giving up.
2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep segment
no 1
2019-10-03 07:34:06,251 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Stopping
sweeping as signalled
2019-10-03 07:34:06,258 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Resetting
NanoVNA sweep to full range: 100000 to 150000
2019-10-03 07:34:06,260 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sending
"finished" signal

Anyone?

No RF squirted into it, default as delivered. Cannot see more than one
trace.




Re: NanoVNA-Saver: Testers wanted

 

Of course Larry, you've been a great help thus far! :-)

I'll be doing alpha testing for each new version from here on.

--
Rune / 5Q5R

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, 00:38 Larry Goga, <lgoga@...> wrote:

Hello Rune,

If you haven't done so already, please add my name to your list of Alpha
testers if you would like. I will be testing on a Dell Laptop computer
running Windows 10 and an iMac under Mojave 10.14.6. I understand that
this is a chance to test for program bugs and not recommend new features.

I agree. I do believe the it's time to nail down at least one foot. That
way you can only run in a small circle!

Thanks for all the work you've done on this incredible project.

Larry




Re: TaoBaoFOCUS (hugen79) order cancelled

 

Chinese holiday now


Re: How does VNA get the phase angle of S11

 

You have the test signal from the SI5351 send to the bridge but also to the "reference" mixer, in the reference mixer it is mixed with the output of the Local Oscillator (LO) which also comes from the SI5351.
The unbalance of the bridge goes to the "reflection" mixer where it is mixed with the same LO.
The LO is at 5kHz offset from the test signal so the output of both mixers is a IF signal at 5kHz.
Both IF's are then read into the controller using the ADC and in a DSP algorithm in the controller the IF's are going to DSP mixers where they are mixed with two 5kHz signals 90 degrees apart (I/Q mixer) to create a DC signal.
The DC signals (I and Q) are the real and imaginary part of the complex downconverted reference and reflection input to the HW mixers. As you do not know the actual angle of amplitude of the test signal the complex test signal is divided by the complex reference signal to eliminate the phase and amplitude uncertainty.
The outcome of this division is the unbalance of the bridge scaled relative to the reference signal, both in magnitude and angle.
Attached a small pdf that contains the block diagram of a VNA using the same mechanism


Is my Nanovna broken?

 

I cannot get this to work on startup using nanosaver and I get in the logfile ...

2019-10-03 07:33:37,745 - NanoVNASaver - INFO - Startup...
2019-10-03 07:33:37,829 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing SweepWorker
2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Found NanoVNA (0483 5740) on port /dev/ttyACM0
2019-10-03 07:33:37,869 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Building user interface
2019-10-03 07:33:37,973 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Finished building interface
2019-10-03 07:33:51,682 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Opening serial port /dev/ttyACM0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,100 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - info
Kernel: 4.0.0
Compiler: GCC 5.4.1 20160919
Architecture: ARMv6-M
Core Variant: Cortex-M0
Port Info: Preemption through NMI
Platform: STM32F072xB Entry Level Medium Density devices
Board: NanoVNA
Build time: Aug 2 2019 - 16:40:01
ch>
2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Read starting frequency 100000 and end frequency 150000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,265 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Starting initial sweep
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing SweepWorker
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - 1000 sweeps
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Parsed sweep range as 100000 to 150000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,266 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep segment no 0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,267 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Setting sweep range to 100000 to 100000
2019-10-03 07:33:52,568 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading frequencies
2019-10-03 07:33:52,784 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Reading data 0
2019-10-03 07:33:52,994 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Read 101 values
2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - WARNING - Got a non-float data value: 2147483647.147483647 2147483647.147483647 (2147483647.147483647)
2019-10-03 07:33:52,995 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Re-reading data 0
repeats until
2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - CRITICAL - Tried and failed to read data 0 20 times. Giving up.
2019-10-03 07:34:06,245 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sweep segment no 1
2019-10-03 07:34:06,251 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Stopping sweeping as signalled
2019-10-03 07:34:06,258 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Resetting NanoVNA sweep to full range: 100000 to 150000
2019-10-03 07:34:06,260 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - DEBUG - Sending "finished" signal

Anyone?

No RF squirted into it, default as delivered. Cannot see more than one trace.


Re: Installed recent firmware - was this a big mistake?

 

From: Oristo

In reality, USB does not work that way. Here are "real" supported USB speeds:
USB 1.0/Low-Speed: 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps)
USB 1.1/Full-Speed: 12 Mbps.
USB 2.0/Hi-Speed: 480 Mbps.
USB 3.0/SuperSpeed: 5 Gbps.
USB 3.1/SuperSpeed: 10 Gbps.

Setting some bps is supported for virtual COM (AKA CDC device) to chips (eg. FTDi)
at the other end which interface USB to real serial (RS-422 or 232 or whatever)..
There is no such interface at the STM32 chip in nanoVNA,. Speed is determined by
which USB speed gets negotiated at plugin detection time and buffer sizes implemented.
====================================

Here, I experienced that a USB 5 GHz Wi-Fi dongle was substantially slowed in speed by having a USB mouse plugged into the same hub. So some USB appears to "work that way".

Cheers,
David
--
SatSignal Software - Quality software for you
Web:
Email: david-taylor@...
Twitter: @gm8arv


Re: How does VNA get the phase angle of S11

 
Edited

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:32 PM, sala nimi wrote:


how does it get the phase of the that vector
magnitude = sqrt(re*re + im*im)

phase = atan2(im, re)

where:
re - real part of complex S11
im - imag part of complex S11


Re: errors of "error" models

 

Hello gin&pez

I installed maxima and ran the visualizer, it worked OK giving the expected
figures.
I have also taken a look at the fortran code, and I am not done yet, it is
difficult to read
as it is written in strict fortran 77 using the 6 character variable names.
Such short variable
names makes it difficult (for about 20% of the names) to understand the
intent of the variable or function.
You may consider using longer variable names as 32 character variables
names are supported in
watcom fortran 2.0 (not sure for 1.9) and 31 character variable names in
the fortran 90 standard and gnu fortran.
You may also consider indenting the loops and conditionals to ease reading.

Regards
Jose

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 1:47 PM yza <yzaVNA@...> wrote:

26 : Correction of Maxima Version and "Unpacked" DERDEI Code

- also @Jose Luu : /g/nanovna-users/message/3278 -

Hello,

Allow us, please, to inform you that, as we already promised at:

21 : The Mathematica Code and the Unpacked DERDEI Code :
/g/nanovna-users/message/3290

we just uploaded the new, "unpacked" version of DERDEI at:


Also allow us, please, to inform, facupov, the interested
Common User that in order to avoid unnecessary
complications, he has to take into account the following:

(0.a/b) As it is detailed in the messages:

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Maxima 5.38.1 64 bit build Windows
From: <petrosez@gm...> - 2016-06-13 11:18:29


Re: [Maxima-discuss] Maxima 5.38.1 64 bit build Windows
From: Gunter K?nigsmann <gunter@pe...> - 2016-06-14 06:44:35


the version 5.38.1 of [maxima] requires a bunch of hard to
follow instructions for installation under wxpp32 or wxpp64.

Therefore, we * e r r o n e o u s l y * suggested, what we had
avoid to say, about this installation at:

2 : yza, Sep 21, 2019 : /g/nanovna-users/message/2802

and thus he should install the last * f u l l y * working 32-bit version
5.36.1 of [maxima] with [sbcl]:



We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience.

Please accept our apologies.

(0.b/b) Note: He may need to also do the following:

|Start|Settings|Control Panel|System|Advanced|Performance|Data
Execution Prevention|(o) Turn on DEP for all programs and
services except those I select:|Add|{X:\}{wxpp32}Program Files\
or{wxpp64}Program Files (x86)\Maxima-sbcl-5.36.1\bin\sbcl.exe|
|Open|

(1) He should unzip [DERDEI20191001.7z] to the default
folder with name: [DERDEI20191001], in the root folder of a drive,
which, if it is different than of our [K:], lets say [X:], then he has
to edit [DERDEI-unpacked_20191001-600-1000.MC] and
in the multi-lines beginning with /*10*/ up to /*15/ to replace
every occurrence of K: by X:

(2) He should skip | ignore any instructions given in the
Documentation:



regarding the file: [functions.txt], because all the contents of this file
are now embedded into: [DERDEI-unpacked_20191001-600-1000.MC]
at the aforementioned lines, and thus he should also ignore
completely the file: [useless-MC-embedded-functions.txt],
which was included into [DERDEI20191001.7z] just for the shake
of completeness

(3) He may execute sequentially, the 15 multi-line commands by
Copy-Paste into [XMAxima] and Enter them one-by-one

(4) He may omit the just informative multi-line commands
beginning with: /*2*/, /*4*/, /*6*/, and /*8*/

(5) If he likes, then in just three 3 steps he can: (I) copy
the whole content of [DERDEI-unpacked_20191001-600-1000.MC],
then: (II) paste them to [maxima], and finally: (III) run it fully.

(6) He may want to change the way in which the six 6 graphics
windows are presented by [gnuplot] and to select between the
"cascading" way, in which each window has to be closed, in order
to appear the next one, or the simultaneous one, by following
the instructions provided by the [Maxima 5.36.0 Manual: 12.
Plotting][12.3 Functions and Variables for Plotting][System
variable: gnuplot_view_args]:

"In Windows versions of Gnuplot older than 4.6.3 the behavior of
"~s -" and "-persist ~s" were the opposite; namely, "-persist
~s" made the plot window and the gnuplot interactive shell
remain, while "~s -" closed the gnuplot shell keeping the plot
window. Therefore, when older gnuplot versions are used in
Windows, it might be necessary to adjust the value of
gnuplot_view_args."

(7) If he is indeed a [mathematica] user, then it is up to him to
transfer -more-or-less "easily"- the graphics commands in the
remaining just four 4 [maxima] multi-line commands beginning
with: /*3*/, /*5*/, /*7*/, and /*9*/, to [mathematica], because:


"Macsyma" [maxima] "was revolutionary in its day, and many later
systems, such as Maple and Mathematica, were inspired by it"
-
at least, if not much more, more than that...

Sincerely,

gin&pez@arg

26




Re: edy555 design notes on CALIBRATION sets

 

Oristo,
I think I found a message string that may help explain your results somewhat Kurt Poulson at Sep 9 message #2140. and the ones that follow it.

Jim, KA6TPR ?


Re: Which Firmware Version?

 

I did not get that from the user guide.? But your explanation works for me.? I have not connected with a terminal program yet...
Thank!Mike WY6K

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 09:29:27 PM CDT, hwalker <herbwalker2476@...> wrote:

Mike,
Did you checkout the user manuals in the "Files" section of this group?? Basically there are two methods:

1. If you have the latest firmware installed then there is a new menu option that allows you to perform a screen calibration.
2. If you have the original firmware then you have to connect the NanoVNA to a computer and use a terminal program to perform the calibration.

Herb


Re: Deal on ebay

W5DXP
 

Are some V1 units still being shipped without batteries and shielding?


Re: edy555 design notes on CALIBRATION sets

 

Oristo, reference your inductor measurement above, Could you explain how you conducted this test? Did you recal the NanoVNA at each of your measurement ranges? Your test fixture set up isn't really a broad range test fixture. Did you lock down the position of your test clips and leads? I don't remember reading if the Nano firmware stores one single point/frequency calibration value, several over the specified frequency range or 101 points. What did your 51 ohm resistor look like over the 0.1-900 Mhz range after the calibration?

thanks,
Jim, KA6TPR


Re: Which Firmware Version?

 

Mike,
Did you checkout the user manuals in the "Files" section of this group? Basically there are two methods:

1. If you have the latest firmware installed then there is a new menu option that allows you to perform a screen calibration.
2. If you have the original firmware then you have to connect the NanoVNA to a computer and use a terminal program to perform the calibration.

Herb


Re: Which Firmware Version?

 

How does one calibrate the screen?
Mike WY6K


"... somewhere in the distance, there's a tower and a light, broadcastin' the resistance, through the rain and through the night..."

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 3:06:18 PM CDT, Larry Rothman <nlroth@...> wrote:

Any time you push new F/W to the device it is good practice to re-cal the touchscreen.
Now, with that said, I just updated one of my units and found the touch surface was still calibrated.
So - if you see the touch is off at any time - most likely on the menu selections - do a quick cal.
Regards,Larry

? ? On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 3:56:15 p.m. GMT-4, Joe St. Clair <saintc@...> wrote:?

Hmm. Can newly installed firmware detect that it has never been touch screen calibrated and automatically start in TOUCH CAL the first time?


Re: edy555 design notes on CALIBRATION sets

 

That's a great point.? Testing components, especially inductors, at the intended frequency of use is great.? And the NanoVNA makes it easy - which means I might do actually do it...
Mike WY6K


"... somewhere in the distance, there's a tower and a light, broadcastin' the resistance, through the rain and through the night..."

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 2:12:49 PM CDT, Oristo <ormpoa@...> wrote:

Hi Mike-

This was a little unclear to me, but interesting.? Are you saying that
you used the 51 ohm resistor held by the jaws of the alligator clips for calibration?
Exactly, IMO "calibration" should reflect actual measurement configuration

? Then the data you posted was for that inductor?
Yes, one that is very liable to stray pickup.
The attached image shows nanoVNA display for a frequency scan,
and hopefully visible is an approximating circular segment Smith plot,
as reactances should be.

While component RLC values at intended application wavelength[s] are
obviously of interest,
observing Smith plots over a wider range can reinforce credibility or
reveal anomalies.

Having not been otherwise informed,
nanoVNA reports 50 Ohms for that 51 Ohm resistor;
I can live with 2% errors...

IMO, 5 stored calibrations are none too many.


NanoVNASaver not running under Linux

John Kemker
 

Having a problem getting NanoVNASaver to run under Linux Mint (Tessa). Installed the requirements, ran the pip install and get this error message when I try to run it:

NanoVNASaver
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
from . import multiarray
ImportError: cannot import name 'multiarray' from 'numpy.core' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/NanoVNASaver", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('NanoVNASaver==0.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'NanoVNASaver')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2852, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2443, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2449, in resolve
module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/NanoVNASaver/__main__.py", line 23, in <module>
from .NanoVNASaver import NanoVNASaver
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/NanoVNASaver/NanoVNASaver.py", line 24, in <module>
import numpy as np
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 142, in <module>
from . import add_newdocs
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .type_check import *
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/lib/type_check.py", line 11, in <module>
import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError:
Importing the multiarray numpy extension module failed. Most
likely you are trying to import a failed build of numpy.
If you're working with a numpy git repo, try `git clean -xdf` (removes all
files not under version control). Otherwise reinstall numpy.

Original error was: cannot import name 'multiarray' from 'numpy.core' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py)

Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
from apport.report import Report
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in <module>
import apport.fileutils
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in <module>
from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 24, in <module>
import apt
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
import apt_pkg
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
from . import multiarray
ImportError: cannot import name 'multiarray' from 'numpy.core' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/NanoVNASaver", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('NanoVNASaver==0.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'NanoVNASaver')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2852, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2443, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2449, in resolve
module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/NanoVNASaver/__main__.py", line 23, in <module>
from .NanoVNASaver import NanoVNASaver
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/NanoVNASaver/NanoVNASaver.py", line 24, in <module>
import numpy as np
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 142, in <module>
from . import add_newdocs
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .type_check import *
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/lib/type_check.py", line 11, in <module>
import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError:
Importing the multiarray numpy extension module failed. Most
likely you are trying to import a failed build of numpy.
If you're working with a numpy git repo, try `git clean -xdf` (removes all
files not under version control). Otherwise reinstall numpy.

Original error was: cannot import name 'multiarray' from 'numpy.core' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py)

Any ideas (Ignore my misspelt message earlier!)?