On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 04:58:30AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
Python3-scikit-rf looks promising to plot the data. Debian electronics / Debian ham teams might have some good ideas apt-cache search Smith threw this up There's also various gnuplot / octave plots that might work. Hope this helps All best, as ever, Andy Cater > > Can anyone suggest a linux substitute? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >
