{"id":9182,"date":"2020-06-10T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/alan-wolke-w2aew-explains-the-vector-network-analyzer-vna-video\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T01:29:00","slug":"alan-wolke-w2aew-explains-the-vector-network-analyzer-vna-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/alan-wolke-w2aew-explains-the-vector-network-analyzer-vna-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wolke W2AEW Explains the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sb3q8f0NBZc\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>I told Alan that his video on VNAs was &#8212; for me &#8212; very timely. The video popped up on YouTube on the day than my NanoVNA was being delivered. TRGHS. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Alan does a great job in explaining what the VNA does. Particularly useful for me was his explanation of the VNA&#8217;s ability to measure phase differences (through the use of directional couplers). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I am having fun with my NanoVNA, happily measuring SWR and the bandpass characteristics of various filters. Mine came with what looks like a guitar pick &#8212; this is used as a stylus to hit the small boxes on the touch-screen. A nice touch&#8230; <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I wish there was some good software for use with this VNA. Apparently the nice software described by Joe Smith (yesterday&#8217;s blog post) is quite expensive. Is there a free alternative out there? <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told Alan that his video on VNAs was &#8212; for me &#8212; very timely. The video popped up on YouTube on the day than my NanoVNA was being delivered. TRGHS. Alan does a great job in explaining what the VNA does. Particularly useful for me was his explanation of the VNA&#8217;s ability to measure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/alan-wolke-w2aew-explains-the-vector-network-analyzer-vna-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Wolke W2AEW Explains the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,71,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanovna","category-test-gear","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","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=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}