> Actually I think that even though Service Monitors have
> finally become *relatively* commonplace in the Ham Shack, the
> VNA is not something "most" hams have seen or know how to use.
For $100, Rick's (Amtronix) return loss bridge is a must-have for anyone
that has a SM with a SA/TG. With it, there's no longer any excuse for not
being able to tune cavities properly for maximum return loss.
> Like Service Monitors used to be before the flood of HPs on
> eBay in the last few years, I hear rumors of "great deals" on
> VNAs, and yet never see them in any way "plentiful", "easy to
> acquire", or "affordable", but then again I'm also not
> exactly looking that hard, and perhaps I'm missing one of
> those "everyone knows about Bob's VNA Warehouse!" kinds of
> sources for such things.
Hey, I didn't say they were cheap, nor that everybody can or should own one.
There's nothing more enjoyable than tuning up a $100 duplexer from Dayton on
a $50,000 network analyzer, especially when it's a 3-porter and you don't
even have to swap cables around :-)
--- Jeff WN3A
