{"id":26366,"date":"2021-03-08T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26366"},"modified":"2021-04-12T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:42:30","slug":"12-april-introduction-to-vnas-and-the-nanovna-by-alan-wolke-w2aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2021\/03\/08\/12-april-introduction-to-vnas-and-the-nanovna-by-alan-wolke-w2aew\/","title":{"rendered":"12 April 2021 &#8211; Introduction to VNAs and the NanoVNA by Alan Wolke, W2AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/38mN4cqB-tc?start=350\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This video begins with a short presentation in memory of HRH The Prince Philip who died on 9 April 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Alan&#8217;s presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Alan gives an introduction to what a VNA is, the fundamentals of VNA operation and terminology, and what it&#8217;s good for.<\/p>\n<p>He then goes into the NanoVNA specifically\u2014a bit about the design, calibration, operation and typical use cases\u2014followed by the limitations of the NanoVNA compared to &#8220;professional&#8221; VNAs.<\/p>\n<h3>About Alan<\/h3>\n<p>Alan Wolke, W2AEW was originally licensed about 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He is an electrical engineer, and for the last 14 years has been an RF Field Applications Engineer for Tektronix.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a lifetime member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ARRL<\/strong><\/a> and serves as the Technical Coordinator for the Northern NJ Section of the Hudson Division.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to enjoying SSB and CW ragchews on the air, Alan also takes pleasure in producing videos for his popular YouTube channel\u2014which has over 130,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<h3>Find out more<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Watch<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/w2aew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alan&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video begins with a short presentation in memory of HRH The Prince Philip who died on 9 April 2021 Alan&#8217;s presentation Alan gives an introduction to what a VNA is, the fundamentals of VNA operation and terminology, and what it&#8217;s good for. He then goes into the NanoVNA specifically\u2014a bit about the design, calibration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tonight-at-eight-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}