Hello Biff44,
No in fact there is no ferrite based transformer or something at all. In fact it's made of resistors, but not in a way to build a Wheastone brigde. In fact the Output signal is divided in two signal of different level, one for the Reference port, the other for the A port... If...
I have a question for those who have 'worked' closely with the equations involved in the VNA, and particularly for the calibration procedure.
At work we have a HP8751A VNA (5Hz-50MHz) working with a Reflexion/Transmission Test Set HP87512. As I'm always loking for 'the way it work', I opened it...