Thursday, March 24, 2016

Antenna Analyzers

This post relates to antenna analyzers useful to amateur radio operators. I will list my experiences with these in this article.


Array Solutions AIM 4170



I don't recall what I paid for my AIM 4170. It is an older version and has been replaced with the AIM 4300 ($519). The AIM 4170 exceeded my expectations. It is well worth the price if you are doing any kind of antenna work or network characterization. 

The software runs under Windows 7 and works very well. I have not tried to port it to Ubuntu.

The following plot is from a balun I build back in '07.


This plot is from an antenna feed balun I built. Here is a photo: