Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
I have never seen a problem feeding a dipole directly with an unbalanced
feedline. The last dipoles I had up (which were for 40 and 30 meters) were
just fed by connecting the two leads of the coax
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Zack Widup
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#39925
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Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
Bob,
Would you suggest a voltage balun or current balun at antenna feedpoint?
One ham told me that if you use a voltage balun, it can bring down the high
noise I have on 80m.
Regarding the original
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Jon
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Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
Hello Hobride,
Unfortunately you have not supplied a photo of your test setup.
A dipole is balanced at the feedpoint, your VNA is unbalanced.
I suspect your problem is that you do not have a balun or
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Bob Ecclestone VK2ZRE
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#39923
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Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
You did not indicate the range of your sweep.
Try setting the sweep range to 150MHz to 190MHz, recalibrate open/short/load, then measure.
I suspect that you will find the lowest VSWR near 171MHz,
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Milton Engle
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Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
The attchment is missing
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hobride
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Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
Hello,
yes, I have also performed an OSL calibration in the 150-190 MHz range. The SWR at 172 MHz is 4.5
I made the legs from copper wire with ~1mm diameter. The legs are mounted in a plastic tube.
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hobride
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Re: NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
Did you do an OSL calibration of the NanoVNA over the frequency range of
interest? How is the antenna supported? How is it fed? I cannot imagine an
antenna being that far off. Your length calculations
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Zack Widup
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NANO VNA H4 , Implausible measurement results?
Hello everyone,
I have bought a NANO VNA H4 to build simple dipole antennas.
Now I have made a simple dipole antenna for testing. This should be tuned for 172 MHz. The total length is ~83 cm (2,72
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hobride
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Re: Electrical 1/2 wave.
Hi
a Calibrated smith diagram can show you easily the serial resonance frequency and the parallele one ( Xr = 0 Omh ) ,
- use the 401 sweep points option to have maximum frequency accuracy .
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Team-SIM SIM-Mode
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Re: Electrical 1/2 wave.
Well that makes it simple doesn't it.
Make it slightly longer than expected, then partially cut through the cable or snip it completely off as needed for the short at freq! Cool!
Joe
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Joe WB9SBD
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Re: Electrical 1/2 wave.
Joe,
If you short the far end of the coax and connect the NanoVNA to the other end, each half wave will read a short on the VNA. half wavelengths repeat the impedance on the end, quarter wavelengths
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Gary W9TD
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Electrical 1/2 wave.
I have a NanaVNA-H4,
And how would I use it to make an exact 1/2 wave or multiple there-of coax?
1/2, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, etc...
Joe WB9SBD
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Joe WB9SBD
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Re: NEgative resistance for S11 port antenna measurement
Have you tried reducing the sweep range? It might be informative to reduce the sweep to 25MHz starting at 300MHz, OSL calibrate at the measurement plane and run the sweep. Then move up 25MHz
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Steve Withnell
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Re: NEgative resistance for S11 port antenna measurement
You might be receiving strong signals with that antenna, that interfere with the nanoVNA's measurements. If that's the case, at least some of the excursions to negative resistance should not repeat on
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Manfred Mornhinweg
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Re: NEgative resistance for S11 port antenna measurement
** I think it would have been relevant, since you use nanaovna-saver, to post your .s1p files with your participation.
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F1AMM
Fran?ois
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Fran?ois
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NEgative resistance for S11 port antenna measurement
Hello,
v0.7.3 on Windows;
Already had my nanovna calibrated in two range: 30 MHz around 315 and another 30 MHz around 434; used an average of 10 sweeps with ~saver which has produced some partly
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kellogs
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Re: New HW version 3.6.1 observations and questions
Use Zeetk (SMC5351A + custom mixer, but this option also work on SM_ST device) or MS5351
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DiSlord
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Re: New HW version 3.6.1 observations and questions
In the latest software version: 1.2.43/NanoVNA-H-ZK_20250220.dfu there is an additional generator setting.
Now we have three options in the MODE 1. MS5351 2. ZEETK 3. Si5351.
What to choose with
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SP1RAC
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Re: Buying new VNA
Few people on the LibreVNA list did that, maybe ask there.
IMHO it's not worth it. Sourcing some of the components is a problem and
machining the enclosure is another one.
[email protected]>
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Dragan Milivojevic
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Re: Buying new VNA
I wonder how much will cost to build LibreVNA / BOM + PCB price /.Thank you
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yura717
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