I believe that’s how the Alpha 4040 tuner was supposed to work. As far as I’m aware, this project was dropped when Alpha was sold a few years ago.
https://www.alpharfsystems.com/?p=1494 Too bad, it was a neat idea. 73 Josh W6XU Sent from my iPad > On Jul 1, 2021, at 10:10 AM, Al Lorona <[email protected]> wrote: > > The recent thread on small and inexpensive vector network analyzers made me > wonder if and when someone will make either a manual or automatic antenna > tuner with something like one of those VNAs used as a front panel display. > With the VNA in Smith Chart format, how cool would it be to tune the tuner > and watch the antenna impedance move toward the center of the Smith Chart? > The calibration coefficients of the VNA could be set at the factory and > stored in EEPROM since they wouldn't change much over the life of the tuner > other than some temperature and aging effects (but even the cal vs. > temperature could be pre-measured at the factory). > > To my knowledge all commercially available tuners simply display the measured > SWR as a single number; providing a Smith Chart (or rectangular graph if you > wish) swept over frequency would be a quantum leap in the information > presented to the user. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
