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Re: drawing smith charts

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Le samedi 23 octobre 2021 à 04:58 -0400, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> 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.

Hello,

I do not know nothing about radio setup, your hardware and this brand,
so I am afraid I can not help you much.

But the manufacturer claims it works under Linux and provides
instructions to get it running:
https://redpitaya.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appsFeatures/applications/vna/appVNA.html#linux-users-only
Albeit there is an error in the link to download the "control program"
which points to the Windows client instead of the Linux one.
The correct link
is:https://downloads.redpitaya.com/downloads/Clients/vna/vna-linux-tool.zip

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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
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