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Re: errors of "error" models
18 : @Dr. David Kirkby from Kirkby Microwave Ltd :
/g/nanovna-users/message/3181 Hello, Thank you very much for your interest in our work ! We much appreciate that; indeed. Therefore, allow us, please, to inform you that, on the one hand English is -obviously- not our native language, and, on the other hand, we are deeply regret since our limited presentation abilities still create so much confusion to you, even after you already read all of our references on this subject, of course, because these are : "the document" "including adequate references, much like a scientific paper" you ask for. However, and in addition to these, we already wrote, but obviously you didn't notice it too, at: 14 : /g/nanovna-users/message/3111 " this is the current state of published research on this subject, excluding some papers under preparation in order to be published in our small journal: " Nevertheless, it is needless to say that we don't agree at all with your, obviously subjective, comment that "The whole issue is far from simple" - which, by the way, it appears as it is orchestrally emanated from some honorable specialists of this forum - as it unreasonably discourages any Radio Amateur, who is absolute beginner or newcomer to the subject to even give it a chance to attempt to follow it ! And, as your scientific titles imply, it is certain that you know very well that this is the worst anti-scientific attempt to patronize the unsuspecting innocent victim who comes here wanting to learn. Anyway, since we always try to be good listeners, we shall also attempt to follow your valuable subjective suggestions on this very subject and to learn our lessons : Thank you once more ! Now, regarding the objective points you had the kindness to also set, which, we assume, you are definitely referenced to: [17] : From A Common User's Point Of View /g/nanovna-users/message/2521 allow us, please, to also gladly answer them, as follows: (1) You are absolutely right about the "incomplete definitions of the equations". This was a deliberate omission, in order to check how many of the honorable members of this forum - who desperately declare their thirsty for the Knowledge, that is they also passionately seek it in way which exactly coincides with that permanent of ours - are indeed interested for it. Therefore, we also thank you very much, since you are giving us the happiness to notice that: the capital letters are representatives of the "true value" - [ well, if you don't have a feeling of what this exactly [ means, then allow us, please, to inform you that [ you are not alone, but just one of us, and that all [ together we are, with many others who have the [ scientific honesty to admit that they also don't know [ what that really means, because, in our humble [ opinion, this is a notion lying on the boundaries [ between the philosophy and the science, that is it [ is a primitive notion, an undefined term, and all that [ in addition to the fact that there are many others, [ who do not accept that exists such a "true value" - A, B. C of three "known" loads, and Gama is of the "unknown" one, while the small letters are the representatives of the corresponding (VNA or nanoVNA) "raw" measurements, with the rest of the multi-letters to stand for either the well-known indexed S-parameters or for intermediate variables - just for the corresponding indexed Numerators to be used in the calculations and|or the computations - which facilitate, as we hope, not only the comprehension but also the programming, in the way we are mentioning in [17], that is of complex variables as they are all the aforementioned ones. (2) Regarding your interesting contributing notes about the phase matter, allow us, please to reserve ourselves from commenting it right now. Sincerely, yin&pez@arg 18 |
Re: How to measure source impedance?
Output impedance of a transmitter is not simple thing. Transmitter outputs are not matched to the output transistor or fet collector impedance. That impedance is usually very high. Usually matching circuits are made so that efficiency is best, that is the output device does not get too hot. So if you really measure output impedance of a transmitter, you get strange results. Besides, you may burn your transmitter or measuring device.
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Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
Hi Rune,
I tested your new guided calibration routine as well and all works fine with Win10 pro. Very well done! Thank you very much! I keep getting some warnings, and I have no idea if the performance of the NanoVNA will suffer from those!? This is not related to the current version, I had that "feature" with all versions. The messages were generated during calibration. Kind regards Norbert, DG1KPN |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
Great stuff Rune!
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On the R+jX chart the frequency axis scaling works FB but I cannot make the scaling of the data axes work. 73 Nick G3VNC On 27/09/2019 12:04, Rune Broberg wrote:
First of all, there's now the option of scaling the plots: right click them |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
Dr. David Kirkby from Kirkby Microwave Ltd
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 12:04, Rune Broberg <mihtjel@...> wrote:
I just released 0.0.12: I¡¯m not using my NanoVNA yet, as I have not got around to box it up properly. But I will give your software a try on Solaris later. I have both SPARC and x86. I don¡¯t expect anyone else has tried that. My normal computer is a quad core Xeon machine with OpenSolaris on it. I also have a SPARC with Solaris 10, but I expect it would require too much messing around to install all the software needed - git, python etc. Dave. --Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkirkby@... Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom |
Re: errors of "error" models
Dr. David Kirkby from Kirkby Microwave Ltd
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 12:33, yza <yzaVNA@...> wrote:
17 : From A Common User's Point Of View Maybe if you wrote a document on this, including adequate references, much like a scientific paper, we could follow you. But you have made endless posts, at least one of which has incomplete definitions of the equations, it is almost impossible for anyone to follow you. I am sure what you have is interesting, and some will be able to follow you - perhaps not myself as my mathematics is not very good. But the way the information is presented makes it impossible to follow. One of things that is important is the phase difference between the offset male and offset short standards. This will obviously be 180 degrees at low frequency, but will depart from this as frequency is increased. I have seen calibration kits assembled from inappropriate parts where the phases difference drops to zero at one frequency. It¡¯s obviously impossible to calibrate then. But if one standard has a phase able of 0 degrees, and the other 10 degrees, the calibration will be poor. The whole issue is far from simple, but the way you are presenting the information makes it difficult for anybody to follow you. G8WRB -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkirkby@... Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom |
Re: nanovna Battery Specifications
Yes ,indeed a 5V USB powerpack ,readily available ,even from supermarkets , will do fine.
For those needing a Li-Ion cell (nominally 3.7V) , I get these from discarded Laptop battery packs . These packs are discarded because usually only 1 of the 6 cells is no longer OK. I take these packs to bits and charge each cell individually with an appropriate charger (usually good for charging 4 cells at the time) I then fit cells in 18650 cell holders available from Banggood and other on-line retailers. There are 2 types of cell holders , for 1 cell and 4 cells. WIth the cell holders I make multiple cell battery packs to feed my Yaesu FT-817 , QRP transceiver For this transceiver I use 4 multiple cell units in series ,ensuring that the cells will be re-charged when the radio input voltage has dropped to 4*2.8V=11.2V To ensure a long life a Li-Ion cell should not be discharged below 2.8 V The above just for info. After all I am just a radio AMATEUR. Frank , EI7KS |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
Hi Larry,
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that's curious. Have you tried turning it off and on again, as they say? :-) On the face of it, that looks exactly like what would happen if the device was connected, and thus found, when the program started, but was disconnected/turned off/set to DFU mode before attempting to connect. So disconnecting the NanoVNA, turning it off, turning it back on and connecting it again would be my first suggestion. -- Rune / 5Q5R On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 13:47, Larry Rothman <ac293@...> wrote:
YES! Thank you for the Rescan function, Rune. |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
YES! Thank you for the Rescan function, Rune.
However - it's throwing errors looking for COM12: 2019-09-27 07:45:32,042 - NanoVNASaver - INFO - Startup... Settings: C:/Users/lrothman/AppData/Roaming/NanoVNASaver/NanoVNASaver.ini 2019-09-27 07:45:32,437 - NanoVNASaver.SweepWorker - INFO - Initializing SweepWorker 2019-09-27 07:45:32,579 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Found NanoVNA (0483 5740) on port COM12 2019-09-27 07:45:32,579 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Building user interface 2019-09-27 07:45:33,086 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - DEBUG - Finished building interface 2019-09-27 07:45:45,613 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Opening serial port COM12 2019-09-27 07:45:45,614 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - ERROR - Tried to open COM12 and failed: could not open port 'COM12': FileNotFoundError(2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.', None, 2) 2019-09-27 07:45:49,982 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - INFO - Opening serial port COM12 2019-09-27 07:45:49,982 - NanoVNASaver.NanoVNASaver - ERROR - Tried to open COM12 and failed: could not open port 'COM12': FileNotFoundError(2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.', None, 2) I tried to connect twice, hence the two INFO errors. Regards Larry |
Re: NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
Thank you for the massive effort you have put into this software! I have had zero problems running previous versions with Windows 10, but this latest version AVG seems to think there could be a problem so it exports the file to test it. In the mean time AVG will not let me run the program.
73 G4XGN |
Re: errors of "error" models
17 : From A Common User's Point Of View
Hello, Allow us, please, for the sake of completeness of an appropriate preparation of a presentation for the Estimation of the -sine qua non- Core of the Measurement Uncertainty that Exists in *A N Y * VNA System, regardless of what it really is, a VNA or a NanoVNA, facupov : that is like that very one of ours, to also include here the initial findings by us: = | Subject: vna ~ nanovna : (r,x) comparative results but no comments | Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 02:31 | To: [email protected] | From: yin.oe3zgn.sv7dmc-pez.oe3zzp.sv7bax-arg yza@... = | Hello, | | 1 one-port box + adapter - initial version: | | | 2 one-port box + adapter - modified version: | | | 3 one-port box + adapter - modified version: | | black : vna system | red : nanovna + 31 mm adapter | blue : nanovna - 31 mm adapter mathematically | | r : | | x : | | Sincerely, | | yin&pez@arg = 0 : /g/nanovna-users/message/2521 Sincerely, yin&pez@arg 17 |
NanoVNA-Saver 0.0.12
I just released 0.0.12:
This release of NanoVNA-Saver offers a number of new features, all of which have been widely requested. First of all, there's now the option of scaling the plots: right click them for a menu, where it's possible to set the maximum and minimum values for the frequency and data axes. Sadly not yet ready for the polar plots, and mouse control of zoom is also pushed to a future release. Second, it's not possible to have "bands" displayed in the frequency based plots: Select "Display setup" to find the option for this. The default data is for amateur radio bands - or you can put in your own. Thirdly, the calibration procedure has received a new "calibration assistant": A series of popup messages prompting you to switch between calibration standards, and code to automatically sweep them for you and store the results. Finally, there's as always a number of bugfixes and stability improvements. With more than 800 downloads of the 0.0.11 version, I can't wait to hear what you all think of it this time - and I can't thank this community and mailing list enough for the support, encouragement, suggestions and testing you have provided! I am interested in knowing what platforms you are getting this software running on, *particularly* if you had had to jump through hoops or do anything unexpected to get it to run: Do email me at mihtjel@... if you can tell me what you had to do to make it work, so that I may update the documentation, or make things easier to install in the future. Thank you! -- Rune / 5Q5R |
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