Well, I might be willing to use a VNA that attaches to a computer in my Lab, if I could get away with much lower cost than one of the Agilent or Rhode and Schwarz VNAs. I'd like to have the capability to cover the 2.5 GHz band and go considerably higher so I could look at harmonic filters for 2.5GHz.
I'd also like to be able to apply VNA measurements to some of my HF antennas and I might be willing to take a laptop out there to do that, but I could also just calibrate out the feedline to move the measurement plane out to the antenna and do the measurments from indoors! Would be nice to have the capability! I have seen a commercial VNA with a lot of capability that attaches to a Computer for considerably less than a good Agilent VNA! I'm thinking about it when some of my invoices get paid! 73, Charlie, K4OTV -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom W8JI Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:48 PM To: topband Subject: Re: Topband: New MFJ 259C available I thought a much more useful item would have been a 259 revision that was totally immune to RFI, and still did about the same stuff over a wider frequency range. As I looked at things over the years, very few people want VNA's that attach to PC's, and that market is covered anyway. I thought a 259 revision wth direct conversion receivers and a wide frequency range, and a calibrate function, and just basically do what the 259B does now, would have been much better. That would have solved all the major issues, and not cost a fortune or required a computer. My 259B does 99% of what I need, but would be a whole lot better with a cal correction (open, short, load), sweep, wide range, and receivers with a phase detector instead of a diode bridge. 73 Tom _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband