Compatibility / Kompatibilität

vna/J runs nearly on every plattform, that supports the JAVA runtime environment and has drivers for the FTDI USB chips.

vna/J is successfully tested by numerous users on current MS Windows 10 and MAC OS/X El Capitan.

For full list, please see here.


vna/J läuft beinahe auf jeder Plattform, die eine JAVA Laufzeitumgebung und Treiber für die FTDI USB Chips bereitstellt.

vna/J ist erfolgreich von zahlreichen Anwendern auf dem aktuellen Windows 10 und auf Mac OS/X El Capitan gestestet.

Eine komplette Übersicht findet sich hier.

User guide updated / Quickstart Guide in Deutsch

The chapter "Quick-Start-Guide" was updated in the user guide.

Eine Schnellstartanleitung wurde erstellt.

Quickstart Guide for Windows

 

vna/J 3.1.8 available

The new version 3.1.8 of vna/J is released.

The application JAR can be downloaded from here as usual. The following updates are included in this version:

  • Driver for metroVNA extended
  • Fixed display bug for metroVNA in calibration load/save dialogs
  • Upgraded to jna-4.2.1.jar
  • Upgraded to purejavacomm-0.0.28.jar
  • miniVNA driver optimized for new serial library
  • miniVNA pro driver optimized for new serial library
  • miniVNA Tiny driver renamed to match physical device
  • miniVNA Tiny driver various bug fixes
  • miniVNA Tiny driver optimized for new serial library
  • Cable length measurement should now work for miniVNA again
  • Cable loss dialog extended
  • Number of over samples is now stored inside calibration block
  • Bugs fixed for metroVNA driver

Problems with vna/J on some Windows machines

Three users reported strange problems on their Windows machines. They have exception on the Windows command line like "java.long.Error" which leads to the problem, that no longer any serial ports are displayed in the "Analyzer setup" dialog.

Known bugs

The following bugs are in release 3.1.8 of vna/J.

  • In the data analysis dialog you can open two Smith-charts. When you move the cursor in one Smith-chart and then switch the focus to the other Smith-chart, the cursor is moved back to the starting frequency in both charts.s
  • Auto-scale checkbox is not stored to and restored from a preset file
  • There may be something wrong with the GD scale - has to be verified

"I spend a lot of time tuning filters so that the GD measurement option in V3.1.4 has been quite valuable - prior to this I had to export to Excel and calculate therein. I had updated the GUI to V3.1.5 about a month ago and found that the GD scaling has become unusable with the plot producing negative values and the auto/manual scaling just ramping to some impossible limit which you cannot alter to usable values. I reverted to V3.1.4 so as to enable the correct and very useable scaling.

Can you please confirm these last 2 updates have the observed GD error and perhaps enable a fix - I use XP Pro although I don't believe that this has anything to do with it.

Additionally, is there any reason why the GD function is not enabled on reflection (S11) data? You've probably no apparent reason for doing this (I suspect that a variation of this is used for cable length testing) but in fact it is a very useful parameter in passive filter work. Could this be enabled as it is the same calculation a the transmission (S21) data just a different data set?
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These bugs will be fixed in the near future.

vna/J 3.1.7 available

The new version 3.1.7 of vna/J is released.

The application JAR can be downloaded from here as usual. The following updates are included in this version:

  • Bug fixed in preset loading
  • Group delay scale bugs fixed
  • Graphic export now also works for group delay data
  • Port extension now also works with negative lengths

 

vna/J 3.1.6 available

The new version 3.1.6 of vna/J is released.

The application JAR can be downloaded from here as usual. The following updates are included in this version:

  • Erik, SM3HEW has again updated the Swedish translation
  • Tony, F4GTG has finished the French translation
  • Toshiyuki, JP1PZE has translated vna/J into Japanese
  • Fixed marker data in diagram export

 

Japanese manuals updated

Toshiyuki (JP1PZE) has again provided translations of vna/ manuals into Japanese.

The updated user guide can be found here and the new miniVNAtiny driver guide can be found here.

Or simply use the Documents menu to find all manuals.

 

vna/J 3.1.5 available

The new version 3.1.5 of vna/J is released.

The application JAR can be downloaded from here as usual. The following updates are included in this version:

  • Erik, SM3HEW has updated the Swedish translation - thanks again for his dedication to the community
  • Tony, F4GTG has done the first translation to French - thanks for your work!
  • Bug fixed in calibration for miniVNA and miniVNApro
  • Bug in frequency calibration for miniVNAtiny corrected

 

Japanese driver guide for the miniVNApro

Toshiyuki (JP1PZE) has again provided another translation for vna/J.

Please find the "Driver guide for the miniVNApro" translated to Japanese for download in the manual section!

Samples

Here is a collection of measurements I've done with vna/J.

vna/J 3.1.4 available

The new version 3.1.4 of vna/J is released.

As a new feature it supports now overscan in calibration mode 1. Please check chapter "User defined" on page 98 of the user guide.

The application JAR can be downloaded from here as usual.

Headless application

Since version 2.9 of vna/J a command-line version of the vna/J GUI is available (I call this version also headless).

This command-line version can be used to execute automated scans, when no GUI is needed or graph-ical screen output is available.

Details can be found in the user guide for the headless application.