It's a little frustrating. Salivating over it, I tried to find out the
price for the SARK-110, but alas, the seedstudio store's url doesn't
work and the US distributor, SteppIR, doesn't give any price or
how-to-buy information.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 7/8/2015 9:22 AM, Roger Parsons via TowerTalk wrote:
I have a SARK110. It is beautiful!
It has a cast aluminium body, rather like a high end cellphone. The RF
connector is an MMX which is pretty small - they do supply a short extension
lead with a BNC on the end, but I agree that this is probably its weakest
point. (My friend John, G3PQA, has had one for a year or so and he uses a
longer very flexible extension lead with a BNC on the end. That way he doesn't
have to unplug the MMX. The SARK can self calibrate to take out the effect of a
long test lead.) All of the controls are quite small and the menus are nested,
so there is definitely a learning curve, but I have pretty much come to grips
with that now.
It seems to be very accurate - I had some hardline which I assumed had a VF of
0.83, but the SARK said it was 0.89. I eventually found the cable specs on the
net and sure enough the SARK was correct.
The display is full colour and pretty. There are some pretty neat features like
being able to scan four definable frequency bands simultaneously - rather nice
for adjusting a multiband antenna - although I confess that I haven't tried
that yet.
It is a totally stand alone unit, but can interface to a PC via USB - there
some extra functions then available.
I haven't looked closely at the MFJ226, but if its construction is anything
like my old MFJ259, that and the SARK are chalk and cheese.
The unit is designed in Spain, but is manufactured by SEEED Studios in China. I
bought mine direct from China as there is/was? no distributor in Canada, and
that was also a bit cheaper.
I have no connection whatever with the manufacturer or designer except as a
very happy customer.
73 Roger
VE3ZI
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