An Antenna Impedance Meter for the High （天线阻抗计为高）.pdf

An Antenna Impedance Meter for the High Frequency Bands When SWR isn’t enough — here’s a tool that you can build. Bob Clunn, W5BIG SWR meter is a very useful required frequencies are generated by two impedance measurement. There is no buffer instrument and in many situa- AD9851 direct digital synthesizer (DDS) inte- amplifier. This eliminates the harmonic dis- An tions provides all the informa- grated circuits made by Analog Devices. One tortion of an amplifier and keeps the output tion needed to check an antenna. However, DDS operates at the specified test frequency signal amplitude low to reduce the interfer- and the other is programmed to operate 1 kHz ence to nearby radio receivers. The maximum an impedance meter provides a much more above it. These are both driven by a crystal- output power is less than 50 µW. detailed picture of the antenna parameters. controlled oscillator running at 20 MHz. The The output amplitude of the DDS goes There are several such instruments on the DDS chips internally multiply this clock by a down slightly as the frequency goes up. The market with prices in the range to appeal factor of six, so the effective clock rate seen by variation over the entire operating range of the 1 to hams. These typically have broadband the DDS is 120 MHz. In general, the DDS can analyzer is only about 3 dB. This is no problem inputs and use diode detectors. The broad- be used to produce an output up to about one- since we are using the ratio of two RF signals band input is