Re: backyard antenna ranges
That sounds great Mario! I'd love to see some write-up of what you found worked, and what didn't... anything that would make it easier for us also to get good test antennas.
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Clifford Heath
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#20463
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Re: NanoVNA RF Demo Kit connection
I couldn't make even the small number of connections suggested with those little connectors. They died before. I put in parallel with each connector a pair of male-male pins used with IC sockets
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FRANCISCO JAVIER MURIEDAS ARGUMOSA
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#20462
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Re: SAA2N problem
Hi, the most likly reason, that the protection diode is not alredy present on the vna, is cost or possible problems against I good measure?
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Gab IU0 OQM
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#20461
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OT: Windows software for NWT70 analyzer?
Hello-- Can anyone point me toward a Windows 7 version of the software application for the NWT70 analyzer? Thanks in advance, and 73-- Brad? AA1IP
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Brad Thompson
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#20460
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Re: Differences of H4 and SAA2N
#buying
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There are versions of V2 with N and SMA connectors. V2 switches to si5351 for frequencies below 140MHz so that is correct. [email protected]> wrote:
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Dragan Milivojevic
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Re: Differences of H4 and SAA2N
#buying
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Glad I caught this thread. I was thinking of getting a S-A-A-2 but if it has N connectors that would be problematic short term. I did hear though that the H4 uses harmonics above 300 Mhz or so, where
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bruiser419@...
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#20458
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Re: SAA2N problem
You're right.. I was looking at the wrong table..
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Jim Lux
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Re: SAA2N problem
Jim, You figure is far too low! 100pF per meter comes much closer to reality. Manfred
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Manfred Mornhinweg
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Re: SAA2N problem
Ken, indeed you have to use the bidirectional type. Unidirectional ones conduct like any diode in the forward sense. They are pretty much like improved zener diodes. Bidirectional ones are two of them
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Manfred Mornhinweg
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Re: SAA2N problem
Yes, that makes sense. The diode I used is a bi-directional type with a clamping voltage of 5.5V. Static charge build-up is limited to 5.5V which should be harmless. In my case I'm developing UHF RFID
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Reinier Gerritsen
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Re: SAA2N problem
Greetings all, Interesting discussion. When I Googled TVS (Transient Voltage Suppression) diode, it appears there are two varieties, unidirectional and bidirectional. I would assume a
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Ken Sejkora
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#20453
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Re: SAA2N problem
Hi Dave The charge only accumulates if it is connected to an antenna that is not a DC short.? ?i.e.? long wire, gama matched Yagi, 1/4 wave vertical etc. Not a problem with a folded Dipole, loop,
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KENT BRITAIN
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#20452
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Re: SAA2N problem
A coaxial cable is a long cylindrical capacitor. Being by design low loss, it can accumulate and store a charge for quite some time. When connecting any longer piece of coaxial cable or other low-loss
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W0LEV
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Re: SAA2N problem
I was measuring what turned out to be about 325 foot run of coax. About 200 feet of lmr400 and 125 feet of rg213. Think I will have to find some diodes to solder on the pcb. I don't think I have any
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Thomas Kerns
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#20450
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Re: SAA2N problem
Soldering the diodes directly on the pcb is easy and you can never forget them... See pictures (follow the trace from connector to series capacitor to TVS diode to resistive pad (3 resistors). The
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Reinier Gerritsen
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Re: SAA2N problem
It's a good practice in general to "permanently" have a leakage path to ground.? A 100k or 1 meg resistor in a Coax T is one way. If you get a big transient, it will probably fail, so that makes an
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Jim Lux
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Re: SAA2N problem
It's kind of expensive (because SMA connectors aren't free), but one could probably make a little protection board with a SMA jack one end and SMA plug on the other, with the TVS diode on the single
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Jim Lux
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#20447
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Re: SAA2N problem
Thanks for the help. I don't remember exactly what I was doing at the moment it quit, but I had been measuring a long run of coax, and I had also measured the swr of an outdoor antenna (a 160 meter
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Thomas Kerns
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Re: SAA2N problem
I had 3 broken units a few months ago (the first version of the SAA). Replaced the switches and they were back to life. On one unit I installed esd protection diodes. But since I have my V2plus4, I
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Reinier Gerritsen
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#20445
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Re: SAA2N problem
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 05:26 AM, schweppe wrote: > > When looking at the front end of the nanovna you see a 10?F capacitor in > series with the MXD8641¨CSP4T Switch. This switch can resist 100V in >
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Ken
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