#20 Magnet Wire
SimSmith Transmission Line Evaluation

#20 Remington 20SNS Magnet Wire PTFE Tubing 12L ID=2.2mm OD=2.6mm SimSmith Equations Files: N20Magnet.zip

VNWA Measurements

1:1 Voltage Balun = 2 x FT50-34 10T:10T OSL Calibration at Balun balanced side. Calibration L = non inductive 98.28Ω resistor SimSmith File: SS-N20-VNWA.ssx VNWA nominal values: Zo = 64.5Ω Vf = 0.79 k1 = 0.78 k2 = 0.024

VNWA k0 Evaluation

TL direct connect to VNWA calibration plane 12kHz (VNWA IF) data point removed from s1p files SimSmith File: SS-N20-VNWA-1M.ssx k0 Calculation: #20 DCR Specification = 10.15Ω/1000' #20 DCR = 2.03Ω/200; SimSmith k0 == 20 * log((Zo + DCR/2) / Zo) #20 TL k0 = 20 * log((64.5 + 2.03/2) / 64.5) = 0.1356

VNWA 10kHz to 30MHz Evaluation

Sum 10kHz to 1MHz and 1MHz to 30MHz files SimSmith File: SS-N20-VNWA-Sum.ssx

VNWA Two Port Evaluation

12-term correction Export VNWA data function s_dm SimSmith File: SS-N20-VNWA-s_dm.ssx

10kHz - 30MHz
SS-N20-VNWA-s_dm-2.ssx

VNWA Compare Direct, Balun, and 2-Port

Compare/ss-Compare.ssx

2-Port OSL Calibration
Arbitrary Calibration using SDR-Kit BNC Calibration Kit Example Calibration Method OSL Delays = Cal Kit Delay + -106ps (11mm Amphenol 031-203-RFX)

2-Port Thru Calibration

AA-54 Measurements

Measured with AA-54 in stand alone mode (No Balun) Download AA-54 using AntScope Software AA-54 measured #20 Parallel TL parameters k1 = 0.83 (dB matched loss at 1MHz / 100') Vf ~= 0.78 Zo ~= 68Ω

SimSmith Loss Computations
SS-N20.ssx

SimSmith TL k1 match
SS-N20-SSTL.ssx

SimSmith TL k1 match to 15MHz

SimSmith File: SS-N20-SSTL-15M.ssx AA-54 nominal loss value: k1 = 0.86

SS-N20-SSTL-15M.ssx

AA-54 TL Open Condition Z
SS-N20-Open.ssx TL 1/4λ ~= 12.45MHz TL 1/2λ ~= 24.87MHz Antenna Effect 1/2λ ~= 26.22MHz