Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Yes, many use 31 material for this purpose. I've wound many like CM chokes
using red cores, 31, and 43 material. Problem is with the higher ?r
materials, I end up with a virtual tesla coil at the
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W0LEV
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#18657
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Re: Testing a helix antenna?
"The impedance of a helical antenna is about 140 ohms. To match that to 50
ohms, you can use a quarter wave of transmission line of
sqrt(50 * 140) = 84 Ohms."
Dr. Kirby, I'm trying to get my head
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AllassoPraise <allassopraise@...>
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#18656
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Re: NanoVNA-H4 screen replacement
#nanovna-h4
#lcd
ps.: select: ST7796 touch
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Gyula Molnar
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#18655
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Re: NanoVNA-H4 screen replacement
#nanovna-h4
#lcd
Hi Jos,
read this message: /g/nanovna-users/message/16521
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Gyula Molnar
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#18654
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Re: 50Mhz 3 element Yagi SWR results quite different from NanoVna predictions!
I have excellent results operating NanoVNASaver remotely via VNC from my iPad (and iPhone for that matter). I have not tried it with my Android pad, but since I use VNC clients from the same
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Mario Vano AE0GL
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#18653
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Part of the problem could be that you seem to be using a Red type 2 low permeability iron powder core.
This will not provide a high enough value of choking impedance for the purpose you wish to use
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Martin
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#18652
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Dave,
Thank you for those clear photo's and measurements.
From the Smith charts I think we me conclude that the windings (forming a 2 wire transmissionline) have a Z0 of about 100 ohms. The enameled
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Arie Kleingeld PA3A
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#18651
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Dave,
I had some 18awg coated solid copper wire i stripped form a piece of thermostat wire and managed to get 16 loops onto the core. I am 3d printing a centre insulator for the two wires form the
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deadman1966@...
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#18650
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Bob, I do understand the antenna is low to the ground to go any higher i only have one option and that is to slope the wire from the 2nd floor of house so around 25 to 30 feet down to the back fence
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deadman1966@...
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#18649
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Is this the antenna which is 6 feet (1.8m) above the ground we are complaining about?
What can one expect with such a large capacitor to ground. Let's get back to basics. Pre VNAs.
The most
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Bob
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#18648
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Re: Testing a helix antenna?
helix antennas
I have built a few for L band and they work. Decoding Inmarsat and AERO around 151East.
Can't wait to get my NanoVNA H4 so I can test it to see if building it agrees with the
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Bob
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#18647
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
In the write-up, the last 'subject' was professionally done. Notice it
consists of 16 turns of AWG #14 solid copper wire wound in a bifilar
manner. This one measured the best and is the size of the
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W0LEV
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#18646
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Attached are the measured data sets for the CM chokes I illustrated in the
previous email plus a couple of others
Dave - W?LEV
wrote:
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W0LEV
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#18645
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
For the doublet which consists of two roughly equal lengths of wire each
side of the center insulator, just wind yourself a common mode choke. It
will serve very well as a balun as it will discourage
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W0LEV
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#18644
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
Thanks for the detailed explanation of the graphs I could certainly follow it on the graphs.
I have 2 of the T130-2 cores but the only mag wire i have measures 1.90mm across
which is way too heavy
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deadman1966@...
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#18643
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
No.....NO.....N O.....!! Something is wrong, here. Look at just the
Smith Chart! Open shows lots of loss. Short shows very high Z. 50-ohm
termination shows high Z and totally inductive. All
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W0LEV
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#18642
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
so if the balun is good how can the wires themselves be bad?
I would have expected this ant to be usable across the band windcamp advertised it to work at 5-50Mhz but it seems in most cases my
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deadman1966@...
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#18641
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
From the plot with 50 Ohm resistor you can see, that the balun is good (VSWR < 1.5) from 3 MHz to 30 MHz. The other plots are unimportant.
But remember that an antenna with bad VSWR will also give
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schweppe
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#18640
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Re: NanoVNA-H4 screen replacement
#nanovna-h4
#lcd
Thanks Larry, yes I thought to remember that and searched the forum using "H4 LCD screen" etc. but no luck. Will try again using his name for the search.
Best regards,
Jos
Op 5-11-2020 om 18:35
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Jos Stevens
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#18639
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Re: Help reading Antenna plots
I decided to test the Balun itself maybe someone can help me read these plots.
I have one plot with the ant lead of balun open, shorted and with 2 100ohm resistors in parallel that read 49.9 ohms on
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deadman1966@...
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#18638
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