Re: New user
It is a very powerful and useful device despite its size and cost. I have
used mine for many purposes including using the TDR function recently to
troubleshoot a feed line/antenna problem of a local
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Zack Widup
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#39697
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New user
I got my first Nano VNA yesterday, a friend who used to live 10 miles away, now lives 1000 miles away bought it for me along with jumpers and adapters. Today I set up "presets" for 80, 40, 20, and 2
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Ryan Trullinger (KC0QNB)
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#39696
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Re: Measuring Impedance for the 433 MHz RTL-SDR Antenna
QUOTE: You will do far better to connect the right most antenna and
collapse it
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Because the other two antennas shown in the image will not work well if at
all on 433 MHz.
The extendable
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W0LEV
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#39695
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Hi
What Smith measurements given with the reference load, the short circuit and open terminaison ??? It can help to better understand what can be the issue
73s Nizar
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Team-SIM SIM-Mode
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#39694
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Hi Donald,
Thanks for that, it was pretty much what I was expecting, and ties in with what I am getting with my DG8SAQ VNA. I am also using a silver mica capacitor with about the same lead lengths.
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Stewart Baker
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#39693
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Hi Stewart,
Out of grins and giggles I took a 470 pF silver mica cap which actually measured 454pf using smart tweezers. I then just used a test jig with my NanoVNA which was a white plug in
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Donald Kirk
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#39692
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Re: Measuring Impedance for the 433 MHz RTL-SDR Antenna
Uhm, right. This is over my head...
I was looking to find another impedance measurements for the said antenna, so I can check my measurements against. It looks to me unlikely to obtain such, so how
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kellogs
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#39691
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Re: Measuring Impedance for the 433 MHz RTL-SDR Antenna
it depends ... what about a vertical 2x 5/8 wave ?? also with a loading coil at centre but with some gain over a quarterwave ... and cause its endfed it may be halfwave on 2m and 2x 5/8 on 70cm as
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Siegfried Jackstien
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#39690
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
I get accurate results when measuring capacitors with my NanoVNA so I assume it is something with your setup or calibration. Without photos or screenshots we don't have much to work with here.
Here
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Roger Need
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#39689
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Hi Jeff,
Yes, you are right about the strays of the test jig, and about the capacitor lead length. However, I am using the same test jig and capacitor that, although not perfect gives milli ohms
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Stewart Baker
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#39688
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Hi Stewart
Even at 7MHz it is unlikely that you will not be seeing some stray inductance and stray capacitance, so I am more surprised, at the 0 -j50 ohms. Unless your test jig is very good and the
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G8HUL
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#39687
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Re: Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Indeed 442 pF at 7.2 MHz, that's 0-j50 ohms No need for software to calculate that.
Z=1/Cw where
w=2*pi*F
C in Farad
F in Hz
pi 3.14
If with your NanoVNA you read: 11 ohms -j49 ohms, it's probably
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Fran?ois
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#39686
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Smith Chart accuracy - what am I missing ?
Hi,
I am trying to get to grips why I am not getting the same Smith Chart results with my NanoVNA as I am with my DG8SAQ VNA. I have got to the stage of trying to make everything as simple as
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Stewart Baker
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#39685
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Re: Measuring Impedance for the 433 MHz RTL-SDR Antenna
Hit send too quick.
The way these work is the bottom 1/4 wave has a high Z at the top. The coiled section moves that up, and ideally is a 1/2 or 1 wavelength that does not radiate, then you drive the
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Jim Lux
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#39684
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Re: Measuring Impedance for the 433 MHz RTL-SDR Antenna
Not necessarily - depending on the lengths. What you might wind up with is essentially a colinear array, with either a dipole stacked over a monopole or dipole stacked over a dipole, and that coil in
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Jim Lux
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#39683
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Re: Measuring Impedance for the 433 MHz RTL-SDR Antenna
Because the antenna that is center loaded with a coil will have less gain than a 1/4 wave marconi antenna.
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Roger Need
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#39682
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Re: how good is a rain gutter antenna
I have fault tolerant outlets in kitchen and bathroom. Any time I key up on 70cm band within a few meters of those outlets, they trip! The 2M band doesn't do this...
Matthew KD6KVH
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Matthew Rapaport
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#39681
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Re: how good is a rain gutter antenna
"You'd be surprised how sensitive modern electronics are to
stray RF fields!!"
Not at all surprised. I recently had to remove the flatbed scanner from the desk where the computer it is connected to
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Wes N9KDY
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#39680
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Re: how good is a rain gutter antenna
Just simple overload of the sensors. They typically are tied together
throughout a single installation which may consist of a whole apartment
complex. If one is tripped, the whole complex is
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W0LEV
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#39679
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Re: how good is a rain gutter antenna
Just want to understand correctly why the fire alarms went off.
I'm thinking the fire alarms are on the 450MHz band somewhere. So are they set off due to some harmonic from the HF bands you all are
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Jim Blanchard
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#39678
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