Re: Measuring a 1/4 wave balanced line
#cables
Did a quick search for RSGB sites as described but didn't have any luck. Could you provide a link or more info to help find them? TNX
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Lou W7HV
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
Here are some S11 measurements I did "calibrating out" a 10 dB and a 20 db attenuator. Measurement errors get worse as you increase the attenuation but 6 dB won't be bad at all.
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Roger Need
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Re: Measure Inductance?
The last link on measuring Inductors had an error. Here is the corrected link.... /g/nanovna-users/message/20848 Roger
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Roger Need
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Re: Measure Inductance?
Joe, When measuring the inductance of a coil with a NanoVNA one needs to keep a few things in mind. The inductor will also have resistance and self capacitance. The self capacitance will affect the
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Roger Need
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
How does the output load become part of the S11 measurement? I agree you need it to keep the amp happy, but when you make your?amplitude and phase measurements on the antenna tuner, the load
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KENT BRITAIN
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
No....n o ....... N O..... I was dealing and referring to the INPUT which is what you requested! Yes, then read the combination looking back into the 50-ohm load and matching network which you have
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W0LEV
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
As noted, the OP was looking at inputs, but someone else suggested a way to measure outputs. My comment was on that. Why would you want to feed an RF source to an output? Because you wanted to measure
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Jim Lux
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
"Then use the Nano to read the impedance of the tuner/dummy load?" This configuration?would be on the output of an amp, not the input. Measurement?of S22 and very often S12 can be very helpful as
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KENT BRITAIN
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Re: Measuring a 1/4 wave balanced line
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Owen's posts can also be accessed on the RSGB sites. I subscribe to both the "antennas" and the "antennas research" sites from RSGB. Owen's posts are excellent and always technically and engineering
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W0LEV
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
I was addressing the INPUT as the requester! Why would I feed an RF source to the output??????????? Dave - W?LEV
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W0LEV
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Re: Measuring a 1/4 wave balanced line
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Some of you may be familiar with the blog of an Australia ham Owen Duffy. https://owenduffy.net/blog/ He posts on a wide range of topics and is technically quite knowledgeable. He "lurks" on this
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Roger Need
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
That's more about measuring the amplifier's output impedance, I think the OP is looking for amplifier input impedance. Here's what's great about the NanoVNA - There's going to be people who figure out
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Jim Lux
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Re: Measure Inductance?
Hi David, but the capacitance of the internal windings of a chip inductor are usually unknown.Of course after you have measured the SRF, you can then calculate it.Kent(I have fought this problem for
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KENT BRITAIN
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Re: Measure Inductance?
There is an excellent WIKI on this site. There is also a beginners guide to using the NANOVNAs. There are even a few good YouTube presentation available in the archives of this site. Dave - W?LEV
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W0LEV
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Re: Measure Inductance?
If you know the capacitor value, calculating the inductance from the resonance formula is trivial for any calculator. Just like the Grid Dipper! 2 f = 25330 / (L x C) f in MHz L in ?H C in pF This is
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W0LEV
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Re: Measure Inductance?
On very handy reading when making a wide frequency sweep of an inductor,is that you easily see the jump where the inductor is self resonance. You really don't want to use an inductor above it's self
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KENT BRITAIN
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Re: NanoVNA H / H4 / V2 / V2Plus / V2Plus4 firmware v1.0.69
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d.u.t. is old cable or, perhaps, it's cable with an unknown history. Looking at it with a megger first might be considered. +++++
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John Nightingale
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Re: Measuring S11 at input of RF power amplifier - could I calibrate "through" an attenuator?
Is the tuner between the source and the amp, or between the amp and the load? But it's telling you more about what impedance the amp likes, not what it really is. Kent WA5VJB
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KENT BRITAIN
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Re: Measure Inductance?
Hi Dave, Ok I'll try both methods and see if it comes up with different answers. Now is there anywhere a he he he "Video" or a written step by step etc, on how to do the smith chart way? Joe WB9SBD
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Joe WB9SBD
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Re: Measure Inductance?
Agree.? Measure it directly.? Using the method in the vid gives the capacitance inductance product, but not the individual values.? You still need to know the value of one of them to measure the
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Lou W7HV
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