Category: test equipment
-
Antenna notes
So it has been about a week (or more?) since I dried out all the Buddipole components (I hope, lol), which is to say about a week that the testing and inspection has been … pending. I started this morning by identifying the 3 calibration plugs for the NanoVNA (this turned out to be easy…
-
Nano VNA
Caught a real bargain on Amazon, a NanoVNA-H for about $40 after the $10-off coupon, even including the state sales tax. I’ve been thinking about acquiring one for quite a while … now I’m very happy that I didn’t buy the much older (and much more expensive!) one that I saw at a hamfest last…
-
Sandwich Hamfest, and the answer to a question
Going to Sandwich is a brief but major upheaval in life: go to bed early, get up at midnight and drive until dawn. Shop till ya drop. Drive home. (to read about this process in detail, see last years post) Does that make it sound awful? It’s really a lot of fun. People I only…
-
Simpson 260
This was the standard of the industry in the pre-digital era: Durable, accurate, electrically rugged, utterly dependable; what’s not to love? Analog volt-ohm-milliammeters are still useful for all sorts of tasks, some of which (like finding intermittents in wire and cables) are not easily done with a DMM. I really should have taken a picture…