December 2008 Winners List - RF Cafe Forums

RF Cafe Forums closed its virtual doors in late 2012 mainly due to other social media platforms dominating public commenting venues. RF Cafe Forums began sometime around August of 2003 and was quite well-attended for many years. By 2012, Facebook and Twitter were overwhelmingly dominating online personal interaction, and RF Cafe Forums activity dropped off precipitously. Regardless, there are still lots of great posts in the archive that ware worth looking at. Below are the old forum threads, including responses to the original posts. Here is the full original RF Cafe Forums on Archive.org

-- Amateur Radio

-- Anecdotes, Gripes, & Humor

-- Antennas

-- CAE, CAD, & Software

-- Circuits & Components

-- Employment & Interviews

-- Miscellany

-- Swap Shop

-- Systems

-- Test & Measurement

-- Webmaster

Kirt Blattenberger
 Post subject: December 2008 Winners List
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:53 am 
 
Site Admin
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm
Posts: 653
Location: Erie, PA
Greetings:

Thanks to all who participated in the contest in December 2008. Here are the lucky winners. :smt023

T-Shirt & Coffee Mug Drawing
Rafael G.
3gMetalworx
RF Cafe Advertiser
TBD

Robert M.
East Windsor, NJ
Ordered Visio Stencils Site License
15 oz. RF Cafe Coffee Mug

Book Drawing
Enrique R., Duluth, GA
Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Erwin Kreyszig >1,400 pages

Jay B., San Diego, CA
Modern Coding Theory
Richardson & Urbanke
>550 pages
Graciously Provided by Cambridge University Press


If you see your name here and you have not contacted me to claim your prize, please send an e-mail.

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- Kirt Blattenberger :smt024
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
 
   
 
Earl
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:11 pm 
 
Captain

Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:50 am
Posts: 11
Hey Kirt thanks for doing this. I haven't won anything yet, but did buy your RF Workbook a year ago. It's an amazing value for $35 (?)

You really should charge a lot more 'cause it saved me a few days of inventing my own. I think you might sell a lot more if you jacked up prices significantly. You are probably suffering from the old problem of people figuring the product must be inferior if the price is so low. My bet is that your sales would go way up if you changed the price to at least $100.

Hell, I'd charge $250. Figure $50/hour of an engineer's time, so that's only 5 hours. I couldn't even look up all the formulas in that amount of time.

Also are you nuts for giving away the Open Office version of it? You're killing yourself, man.

Keep up the great work!




Posted  11/12/2012