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Post subject: Man, is there any design work still going on in the US?
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:37 pm
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I troll the message boards every once in a while
when bored, and most of the RF boards are only getting
a couple posts a month! Is the economy really that
bad that there is NOBODY out there doing new RF
work? The few message boards that are getting
posts typically are international ones with EU,
Chinca, Mid East, India, etc engineers on them.
Anyone out there?
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Re: Man, is there any design work still going on in the
US?
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:15 pm
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Greetings biff44: Unfortunately, there really
does not appear to be a lot of new design work being
done in the U.S. or Europe anymore. Some niche areas
like defense and RFIC are still designing new products
here, but we've been pretty fully sold out to China
and India. There's not much technology that has
not been transferred there at this point.
For two decades I have railed against the idea
that we can remain prosperous merely by being a
consumer economy. A few weeks ago, I posted a Cool
Pic showing a world map of pollution levels. Note
that the worst areas correspond with where all the
manufacturing is occurring. Note that accordingly,
the U.S. is dead. Politicians creating laws
to benefit their contributors have killed the country,
while insulating themselves from harm through ultimate
levels of health care, income potential, pensions,
and exclusion from many of the laws that the rest
of us must obey.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Post subject: Re: Man, is there any design work still going on in the
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:39 am
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Yep, that is what I am seeing too. Designing nowadays
is like strolling into a wild west ghost town, and
seeing some tumbleweeds roll by. There still
are some small niche technical gigs out there, but
they are in more obscure areas. I wonder
exactly what the US military is going to do when
they can no longer find anyone in the country that
is capable of designing replacement microwave components
for their EW/ECM/Radar systems (a point that they
are now at on some programs)! Or what would they
do if they needed a technological advantage for
some newmilitary system in 2020, but found all the
GaAs foundries to reside in China? A very
short sighted thing they did--actively force all
high tech manufacturing jobs out of the country!
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Post subject: Re: Man, is there any design work still going on in the
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:36 pm
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Joined: Tue Dec 26, 2006
5:39 pm Posts: 10 |
Quote:
I wonder exactly what the US military is going
to do when they can no longer find anyone in
the country that is capable of designing .....
Refusing to hire anyone over 50 is just
going to make it worse. I am sickened by
the many Federal jobs out there that read like my
resume but they cannot hire you after age 35.
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Post subject: Re: Man, is there any design work still going on in the
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:53 pm
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11:07 am Posts: 33 |
In the "duh" category, I see that Defense Secretary
Gates today is now concerned that Chinese Stealth
Fighter technology is way ahead of where he thought
they would be, questioning our military posture
in the Pacific rim. Arghhh! I sometimes feel
relegated to crafting s.o.a. electronics using "stone
knives and bearskins", as a famous future technologist
once said.
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Post subject: Re: Man, is there any design work still going on in the
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:49 am
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Joined: Tue Dec 26, 2006
5:39 pm Posts: 10 |
My "new year resolution" is probably going to be
changed this weekend. I am going to practice
saying "you want fries with that?"
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