{"id":10938,"date":"2020-06-12T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/software-for-computer-interface-with-nanovna-nanovnasaver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:24:53","slug":"software-for-computer-interface-with-nanovna-nanovnasaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/software-for-computer-interface-with-nanovna-nanovnasaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Software for Computer Interface with NanoVNA:  NanoVNASaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NanoVNASaver.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NanoVNASaver.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>In the UK, &#8220;brilliant&#8221; is high praise indeed. So when Tony G4WIF told me that the NanoVNASaver software was brilliant, I took heed. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Being able to use the tiny (nano!) device with your computer makes it a much more accessible and useful tool, especially for those of us with fat-finger syndrome. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>The photo above shows the NanoVNA measuring Return Loss and SWR on my 40 meter dipole. You can see the identical Smith Chart traces on the two screens. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Download and installation was very easy. I got my Windows PC version from here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mihtjel\/nanovna-saver\/releases\/tag\/v0.2.2\"><b>https:\/\/github.com\/mihtjel\/nanovna-saver\/releases\/tag\/v0.2.2<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Other versions available from here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mihtjel\/nanovna-saver\"><b>https:\/\/github.com\/mihtjel\/nanovna-saver<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Coincidently, a fellow just today put out a video on how to use this software with the NanoVNA. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2S0dt0bYoLs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2S0dt0bYoLs<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Thanks Tony!<\/b> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, &#8220;brilliant&#8221; is high praise indeed. So when Tony G4WIF told me that the NanoVNASaver software was brilliant, I took heed. Being able to use the tiny (nano!) device with your computer makes it a much more accessible and useful tool, especially for those of us with fat-finger syndrome. The photo above shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/software-for-computer-interface-with-nanovna-nanovnasaver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Software for Computer Interface with NanoVNA:  NanoVNASaver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,191,143,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishpool-tony","category-nanovna","category-software","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10940,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/10940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}