Re: Am I in the right track ?
Yes. When I commented "clean" the copper from beneath the inductors, I
imply no copper beneath the component(s).
Yes, that will introduce a slight impedance bump in the line. However,
even a bit of
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W0LEV
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#39847
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Re: Tdr
I know the NanoVNA H4 has a TDR function because I've used it. It isn't
called that in the menu and is a little tricky to figure out. There is a
Youtube'video that describes its setup. Also message
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Zack Widup
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#39846
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Tdr
Haven’t bought one yet but I’d like to make sure I get a version capable of the TDR addition. I’ll have to figure out how to add it if necessary after receiving it.
Thanks.
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James Henscheid
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#39845
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
Stan and Thomas..
Thank you! The menu is very helpful! Got a whole lot of learning to do, i'll be fun!
--
William, k6whp
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"Cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up
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k6whp
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#39844
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Re: Am I in the right track ?
Dave,
That's very interesting. That is what I came across the datasheet of the capacitors I bought. Look at the picture, I think that's what you're talking about. Unfortunately, it is not mentioned
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Nico
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#39843
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Re: Measuring inductance
Dave, the first photo is with the 10pf cap and at 150mhz it measures 10pf.
Since you mention measuring all components, do you have any tips on getting a 50ohm match on the inductor at the desired
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KJ5FRJ
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#39842
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Re: Measuring inductance
When constructing filters, I ALWAYS measure every component before building
the filter! With that, I seldom have to do ANY tweaking with the completed
filter.
If your first image is without anything
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W0LEV
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#39841
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Re: Measuring inductance
Zack,
Here's a link to the filter I'm building. It's not a chebyshev, there was an article in QEX about it comparing the two.
https://github.com/F6ITU/k_zolotarev
And the qex
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KJ5FRJ
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#39840
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Re: Measuring inductance
Where did you get the filter design you are using? Playing around with my
filter design program, I found it appears you are using a 7th order
Chebyshev low pass filter, inductor input. Possibly a
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Zack Widup
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#39839
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
look in files section, menuand notes by bruce dated 2024, good menu map and notes
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[email protected]
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#39838
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Re: Measuring inductance
There's a lot of information here and I appreciate everyone's input- I reset and recalibrated the nanovna after finishing up the test rig according to Dave's build, i missed the copper tape on the
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KJ5FRJ
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#39837
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Re: .NanoVNA-H v3.5_L: white screen - how do I connect USB to fix?
Success!
1. Shorted BOOTP and VDD pins
2. Connected USB-C to PC (MacBook Pro 2016)
3. Started STM32CubeProgrammer
4. Loaded latest NanoVNA .HEX file
5. Started Download
6. Success! NanoVNA working as
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Taracait
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#39836
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
I'm not aware of an updated menu structure map, nor of a consolidated description of features of the current 1.2.40 firmware.
Unfortunately, it takes a bunch of time and effort to create such
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Stan Dye
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#39835
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Re: Erratic traces with SAA2N
I called R&L electronics today. They're going to replace the unit. A+ service from R&L.
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K3IY
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#39834
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
Stan,
thank you for the advice. As mentioned, I became familiar with the H4 one or two years ago (my past dims) and -- per your advice -- I did go ahead and upgrade from 0.5.0 to 1.2.4 and, my word,
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k6whp
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#39833
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Re: Am I in the right track ?
Since you are dealing with SM inductors, I remembered something I've
learned and practiced for a couple of decades. In mounting SM inductors it
matters how they are constructed internally. The
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W0LEV
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#39832
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
A couple more notes:
1 - If your primary use of the nanoVNA is HF up to about 450MHz, then there is no need to buy a new model. I am still actively using my nanoVNA-H4 from 2020, and it is all I need
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Stan Dye
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#39831
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
Gentlemen,
Thank you for the recommendations: if it works, don't fix it and last year's model/FW version works fine if it works fine.
Probably better my devoting my time to [re-]learning and using
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k6whp
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#39830
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Re: Apologetic Intro Message
I generally update the firmware whenever a newer version is available.
There have been some improvements made in some of the versions that were
worth having.
Zack W9SZ
[email protected]> wrote:
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Zack Widup
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#39829
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Re: Different SWR/Smith plots, when off center dipole wire connections to transformer reversed?
Just for fun, I fed my original post into ChatGPT to see if "she" had any insights, and here was "her" response.....a fun exercise..
"What you're describing is a fascinating experiment! It sounds
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Bruce KX4AZ
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#39828
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