On the subject of antenna analyzers- I thought I would share my experience.
I have owned the AEA, MFJ259 and 259B, Autek RF-1 and the Timewave. All had
shortcomings anywhere from inaccuracy to eating batteries.
I bought the RigExpert AA-200A a couple of years back and have never looked
back.
In addition to a synthesized source, it is a true vector instrument.
Extremely easy to use, allows for simulating different shunt capacity of
connectors, reads in graphical and tabular format and best of all is firm
ware upgradeable. Charges of the internal batteries seem to last forever, it
weighs perhaps 1/4th of the MFJ meters and also allows for archiving results
in the field and subsequent downloading to your computer via USB. I don't
see anything close to it for the price except perhaps ther AIM device- but
it needs a PC to run it. Once you use a vector instrument- you'll never go
back:
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