PICOVNA 106

The PicoVNA 106 is an all new, UK-designed, professional USB-controlled, laboratory grade vector network instrument of unprecedented performance, portability and value for money. Despite its simple outline, small footprint and low cost, the instrument boasts a four-receiver architecture to minimize the uncorrectable errors, delays and unreliability of internal transfer switches. The PicoVNA 106 delivers an exceptional dynamic range of 118 dB at 10 Hz and only 0.005 dB RMS trace noise at its maximum operating bandwidth of 140 kHz. It can also gather all four S-parameters at each frequency point in just 182 µs or S11 + S21 in 95 µs. In other words, a 201 point 2-port .s2p Touchstone file in less than 37 ms or up to two .s1p files in less than 19 ms. Its low price makes it cost-effective as a deep dynamic range scalar network analyzer or a single-port vector reflectometer as well as a full-function dual-port, dual-path vector network analyzer. It’s affordable in the classroom, in small businesses and even in amateur workshops, yet capable of meeting the needs of all users up to the microwave laboratory technician and expert.

• 300 kHz to 6 GHz operation
• Quad RX four-receiver architecture for optimal accuracy
• 118 dB dynamic range at 10 Hz bandwidth
• 0.005 dB RMS trace noise at maximum bandwidth of 140 kHz
• Half-rack, small-footprint, lightweight package
• PC-controlled over USB from a Microsoft Windows interface
• Reference plane offsetting and de-embedding
• Time-domain and port impedance transformations
• Tabular and graphic print and save formats, including Touchstone
• P1dB, AM to PM, and standalone signal generator utilities
• Fully accessible, guided 8 and 12-term calibration processes
• 6 calibration modes, including unknown through and connected DUT isolation
• Calibration and check standards with data for confident measurements