[time-nuts] VNA design

Alexander Pummer alexpcs at ieee.org
Mon Jun 2 13:57:23 EDT 2014


I do not wanted to discourage any body, but building the hardware of a 
network analyzer is not a simple task, and requires substantial 
instrumentation, software could solve hardware problems to certain limit 
only
73
KJ6UHN

On 6/2/2014 10:38 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2014 17:33, "Ed Palmer" <ed_palmer at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> There's a DIY project to build a spectrum analyzer at
> http://scottyspectrumanalyzer.com .  Since it's modular, one version of the
> project is to add a couple of modules that change it into a network
> analyzer.
>
> But I think a VNA is an order of magnitude more complex than a SA - pun
> intended!
>
> The software is probably where the biggest work is.
>
> A modular design for a VNA would be interesting, as different sources,
> couplers etc could be used depending on frequency range.
>
> Dave.
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