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ANAMET – Meeting 34

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The 34th ANAMET meeting was held on 21 October 2010 at NPL, Teddington


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09:30 to 10:00 - Registration & Coffee

10:00 to 10:10 - Welcome and Introductions

10:10 to 11:10 - Workshop: Uncertainties for Vector Measurements - Part 1

11:10 to 11:30 - Tea / Coffee

11:30 to 12:30 - Workshop: Uncertainties for Vector Measurements - Part 2

  • Where do the ellipses come from? - Blair Hall (MSL, New Zealand)
  • Is there a simple approximation giving magnitude and phase errors? - James Miall (NPL, UK)
  • A look at correlation in some real measurement data - Martin Salter (NPL, UK)
  • Roundtable discussion and conclusions

12:30 to 13:30 - Lunch

13:30 to 15:00 - VNAs and the RF 'gap' region

  • Traceability of S-parameter measurement in the range 9 kHz to 1 GHz - Masahiro Horibe (NMIJ, Japan)
  • Measurements and measurement traceability in the LF-RF 'gap' region - Ziadé François (LNE, France)
  • Some experiences of using VNA TOOLS from an end-user perspective - Pertti Saarinen (Millog Oy,Finland)

15:00 to 15:30 - Tea / Coffee

15:30 to 17:00 - Precision Coaxial Connectors

  • S-parameters of Slotted and Slotless Coaxial Connectors - Johannes Hoffmann (METAS, Switzerland)
  • 2.4 mm slotless connector investigations -& Juerg Ruefenacht (METAS, Switzerland)
  • Open Discussion - Future plans for ANAMET: How often should we meet? What else should we be doing?

17:00 - Meeting close

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