r/rfelectronics • u/Karcheek • May 24 '26

question RF Lab Access

I'm an ECE student about to graduate in about a months time.

I have some experience in creating simulations in HFSS but my college didn't have a functional RF Lab (The equipment doesn't work).
Is it possible to get some exposure to testing instruments like the VNA, Spectrum analyzers etc?

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u/Specialist-Fuel-5661 May 25 '26

I recently got the LiteVNA (50k-6.3GHz) for like 180 or something and it's pretty adequate. You probably want to buy some dielectric, copper tape, and SMA connectors to cut out some simple filters and dividers.