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I see this is about 1 year old. Maybe you have discovered this already? 2 things: 1) You can change the items in the quick menu to other ones. 2) The long menu is organized by function groups. Using the up/down buttons on the mic will move you up by groups very quickly.
Best I've seen. Why? I'm a new ham setting up my station and I bought the nanoVNA H4 as the most economical SWR test device on the market for helping set up an antenna. I discovered, as many have, that it comes with no instructions whatsoever. I looked a t a few other videos before I found this one. Had this been first, I would have been happy. That said, I do plan to explore at least a few of the many capabilities the nanoVHA has.
Well i made à 2m antenna yesterday for the car. I used a standard swr and power meter.. Calibrated with a 50 ohm load . I adjusted for minimum swr. It works well.. I agree the nano vna provides more info. I do have one, but cannot get out of my old habits. Thanks for your time and info.
I’ve been using the NanoVNA for swr metering for a while now. I just don’t use it often enough to remember the simple manipulation every time even though it’s not that complicated… Your short video makes it easy to undestand and takes the complexity away from it. Good job ! It’s a great tool and I wish I could do more in the shack or in the car with it. Please post other tutorial that are amateur radio oriented for the NanoVNA.
I appreciate it you really helped me all the other videos I looked at I couldn't understand but I understood yours and I actually got the swrs checked on my antenna and it was 1.15 I just wanted to thank you
the ability to have a bluetooth or USB keyboard, or even a phone app bluetoothed to the radio would be really nice for APRS messaging. It's no wonder a lot of people only see APRS as a tracking product since the radio mfgs don't give easy inputs for messaging or other APRS functions.
I would not call this a "missing" adapter problem. It would be unreasonable to expect every adapter that a user might need to be included with the device. It is incumbent upon the user to obtain the adapters/cables that you need beyond what is supplied just like virtually any other piece of test gear. These are very useful devices, not "cheap Chinese junk" as someone else wrote, unless you buy one of the poorly performing clones.
Haha - exactly my issue as well. Kind of boggles the mind honestly! We have multiple clubs around here. I'd love to have bank for each clubs (some of a band plan for emergency, simplex channels for simplex nets, different repeaters etc. Same with traveling. If I'm going camping I'd love to load 5-6 repeaters in while at home to a memory bank and then jump to that bank at the campsite and try them out.
Great info here. Also, congratulations on being the 1st RU-vidr I’ve seen make a ft65 video without washing out the screen 😂 people never adjust brightness or camera to make it visible
Fail. Why I don't own a 400, 300, 200 or 500. Their ancient 2980 has memory banks as do the HTs. ID-5100 or older IC-2820 or IC-2730A do it all if you don't need/use C4FM. I asked Yaesu at Hamvention and they said some word salad about memory/software space. Really? The SD card is unlimited. Again total fail. It's a shame, I really wanted a 500 but doesn't work for base or mobile for me without memory banks.
Not sure if this matters for this particular device, but I was taught that you should always do a calibration in the config you are testing with, especially if there are any adapters, extensions, couplers and the like involved. Basically to hook up everything except the DUT, then perform the open, short and load calibration.
Make sure you are characterizing the connectors and adapters and subtracting those out of the measurements, or extend the measurement plane to where your antenna connects to your feed line by using the right calibration standards. (That matches the connector of the antenna)….
There is no elegant way around this issue, and shame on Yaesu for omitting this feature on an otherwise excellent radio! As said in another comment, they included it in the FT5D, which I have, and it works beautifully in that radio! I bought the FTM500 primarily for a new base station, but with an eye toward also putting one in my truck. For home, this isn't an issue, but it's a deal breaker for my truck. Apparently the Icom 5100 has memory bank scanning, and if I can confirm this, that will be the rig for my mobile use.
Somehow the scan function is greyed out in quick options, and in settings. Not sure how it got like that, or how to turn it back on so I can scan again. Any ideas. Just got the radio.
When, inevitably, someone tells you "Never spin on the whole connector", then hand them the one-piece 'Short" and ask them to show you the correct method. Hopefully at that point they'll shut up.
