Daun, Tom, and all,
At the MVUS Saturday Aug 12 picnic, could a Vector Network Analyzer be checked to see how well it works?
It’s a PocketVNA, a small 2-port unit with sma connectors that I recently purchased for about $430 from Germany. It works with a USB cable. See http://pocketvna.com http://pocketvna.com/ . I use it with my desk iMac (don’t have a laptop for the software). The software does not require any drivers, and the program is on their website. I'm hoping to get this working on a Raspberry Pi with a small touch-screen for portable use.
Looking forward to the picnic.
Joe - WA8OGS
PocketVNA Specifications: VNA hardware version 2.0 (Released Feb 2017)
2-port Vector Network Analyzer
Measure reflection and transmission coefficients (S11, S21) - magnitude and phase
Frequency range: 500 kHz to 4 GHz; Measurements outside this region might be possible but are not guaranteed. Contact us mailto:info@pocketVNA.com if you would like to measure in a particular frequency range.
Dynamic range (typically):
@350 MHz up to 70 dB (System dynamic range);
@4 GHz up to 40 dB (System dynamic range)
Output power -14 dBm at 100MHz
Impedance from 3 to 1000 Ohms
Measurement speed: about 10 ms per step plus communication (for example a 1001 points scan takes 12 seconds)
Number of steps: 1 to 10001
Frequency setting resolution: 1 Hz
Software features:
Available for Windows, MacOS and Linux
OSL calibration functionality
Time domain measurements (DTF)
Plot S-Parameter, Impedance, Phase, Resistance, Reactance, VSWR
Plot in Smith chart
Export in Excel, Touchstone