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tautech:

--- Quote from: mawyatt on October 04, 2023, 01:59:55 pm --- rfloop had demonstrated quite remarkable DR for this core 8 bit DSO in Bode function, can't remember where this is but search for Bode Plot should reveal such.

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Done exploring the Bode plot limits of the $499 SDS1104X-E paired with a Siglent AWG:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds1x04x-e-bodeplot-ii-(sfra)-features-and-testing-(coming)/
tszaboo:
So instead of a vector network analyzer, you need a scalar network analyzer. There are some old HP units on ebay that would do this, but only if you can get a deal.
Depending on your amplifiers, a VNA could be a bad choice. They expect 50 Ohm input and output, plus you can blow them up with just a bit of power.
Considering you already have a nice 300 MHz scope, I would get a used signal generator, and program the thing up to make sweeps. Probably a Z0 probe would help on the scope side.
Or you get the bonus round: Get a RF white noise generator to 1GHz, and record the bode plot with the FFT of the scope.
2N3055:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 04, 2023, 09:17:57 pm ---So instead of a vector network analyzer, you need a scalar network analyzer. There are some old HP units on ebay that would do this, but only if you can get a deal.
Depending on your amplifiers, a VNA could be a bad choice. They expect 50 Ohm input and output, plus you can blow them up with just a bit of power.
Considering you already have a nice 300 MHz scope, I would get a used signal generator, and program the thing up to make sweeps. Probably a Z0 probe would help on the scope side.
Or you get the bonus round: Get a RF white noise generator to 1GHz, and record the bode plot with the FFT of the scope.

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Allow me a bit of pedantry here: If it is only magnitude plot (no phase info) than it should not be called Bode plot but simply frequency response plot... Just saying--
tautech:

--- Quote from: 2N3055 on October 04, 2023, 09:49:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 04, 2023, 09:17:57 pm ---So instead of a vector network analyzer, you need a scalar network analyzer. There are some old HP units on ebay that would do this, but only if you can get a deal.
Depending on your amplifiers, a VNA could be a bad choice. They expect 50 Ohm input and output, plus you can blow them up with just a bit of power.
Considering you already have a nice 300 MHz scope, I would get a used signal generator, and program the thing up to make sweeps. Probably a Z0 probe would help on the scope side.
Or you get the bonus round: Get a RF white noise generator to 1GHz, and record the bode plot with the FFT of the scope.

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Allow me a bit of pedantry here: If it is only magnitude plot (no phase info) than it should not be called Bode plot but simply frequency response plot... Just saying--

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Sure with a through measurement of an active device one needs be careful VNA input limits are adhered to but Phase measurements with cheap VNA's are certainly possible and often the # of measurement types exceed the # of traces available.
Quick example from a random selection of antennae tested in this thread:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/what-really-is-this-antenna/

joeqsmith:
My software for the LiteVNA supports Bode, stability circles ....   You stated that the squarewave drive is no problem for you.   I think the issue is that the Lite's output isn't leveled.   From min to 500MHz, the one I am looking at changes about 3dB.  If you were trying to measure say where the amplifier was starting to compress and you were using a wideband like this, I think you would run into problems.   You give up a lot of basics when you only pay $120.   
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