drawing smith charts

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	drawing smith charts
Date	2021-10-23 11:00 +0200
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Greetings;

One of the things I occasionally do is service my local AM radio station 
when its off the air. This includes trying to keep the VSWR under 
control.

I have a redpitaya Vector Network Analyser that I use to tune the tower, 
and it gives me the tuning state in the form of a smith chart. But while 
it claims to run with a linux system as the display, it doesn't, so I 
had to buy a cheap all-in-one with win 10 home edition on it. Works 
great but is a pita to setup and get started. The windows driver is also 
about 50x the size of the linux driver that doesn't work. 

What can I install to a buster machine that might make this graphical 
display work?  We had, a decade back, a something or other "plot" that 
might have been able to draw a smith chart but I haven't seen it in the 
repos recently. It also was a square plotter, whereas the smith chart is 
circular at its maximum error limits.

Can anyone suggest a linux substitute?

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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drawing smith charts Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-23 11:00 +0200
  Re: drawing smith charts didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-10-23 12:00 +0200
    Re: drawing smith charts Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-23 18:10 +0200
  Re: drawing smith charts "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-23 12:10 +0200
    Re: drawing smith charts Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-23 19:00 +0200

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