#274: Smith Chart Basics: Impedance and Admittance curves and conversion @w2aew

w2aew | #274: Smith Chart Basics: Impedance and Admittance curves and conversion @w2aew | Uploaded December 2017 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
This introductory video describes how complex impedance and admittance are represented on the Smith Chart, and how to convert between them. A VNA is used to illustrate the complex impedance representation on a live smith chart with variable resistive and reactive components.

Notes can be found here:
qsl.net/w2aew/youtube/Smith_Chart_Basics-Impedance_and_Admittance.pdf

Check out my friend Mike's awesome iPhone/iPad app that automates these Smith Chart and Impedance conversions, and the associated introductory video:
apps.apple.com/us/app/impedance-converter/id6474902691
youtube.com/watch?v=GAQHbEcIUbI

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