| 802.11n: Complicated and About to Become Even Messier |
| New IEEE Benefit Makes Relocating Easier |
| Free Keithley Webinar Explores Fundamentals of Semiconductor C-V Testing |
| More on Patents and Employee Rights |
| "Tradeoffs and Other Requirements When Specifying RF Filters" |
 Many Thanks to Analog Devices for Their Support! |
| Commercial Practices Shatter Defense Manufacturing Paradigm, by Dr. Douglas Carlson |
| Build LPFs with Dot-Terminations - a Unique Method |
| RF/Microwave Solid State Switches, by Rick Cory |
| Aerial Tour of Presque Isle in Erie |
| Growing the Medical Device Industry by Shrinking It |
| 5-24-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
Sending Surface Waves Along Coaxial Cables, Part 1, by Glenn Elmore
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| Tunable IF Aids Bluetooth Flexibility, by Jim Wight |
| New AWR Newsletter Available |
| Register for AWR's Customer Appreciation Party at Hard Rock Cafe (IMS2009) |
| New Kirt's Cogitation - "SR3BMUN (NUMB3RS in Reverse)" |
| Patents: Fixable, Or the Next Weapons of Financial Destruction? |
| Thanks to MegaPhase for Providing Melanie & Me Free Tickets to IMS 2009! |
| App Note: IP2 and IP3 Nonlinearity Specifications for 3G/WCDMA Receivers |
 IPP Will Continue to Help Deliver RF Cafe to You |
| Cobra Electronics - Coax Cables & Connectors - Listing Added |
| Five-Dimensional Data Storage |
| Time Engineers - Intro to Engineering Principles for Kids |
| United Inventors Association - Patent Application Assitance |
| Edison Nation - More Patent Application Assistance |
| Lemelson-MIT Program - "Celebrating Those Inventors Who Have Turned Their Ideas into Accomplishments" |
| A Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna with Frequency and Polarization Diversities |
| Tales of CDMA |
 Thanks to Pulsar Microwave for Their Continuing Support! |
| IEEE: Next-Gen Ultrasound - Amazing Images |
| Linearity Improvement Techniques for Wireless Transmitters: Part 1 |
| May Instrumentation Challenge: Function and Arb Waveform Generators - Win $300 Best Buy Card |
| The W1GHZ Online Microwave Antenna Book |
| Multiphysics Simulation Webinar |
| "Where Have All the Spaces Gone?" - by Gary Breed (he shares my concern for grammatical correctness) |
| 5CCG Reunion/45th Anniversary Celebration |
| Fab Rankings |
| Electric Cars to Make Noise by Law? |
| An Entrepreneur's Dream - Space Debris |
| Sage Notebook - Spreadsheets for Many Topics |
| Desert Microtechnology - IC Design - Listing Added |
| New Items Added to RF Cafe Giveaway Selections |
| 5-17-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
 Please Welcome Vector Telecom As RF Cafe's Newest Supporter! |
| New Vendor Page - Electronics Kits Suppliers |
| Coaxial Cable—Still the Best Way to Make An RF Connection (very good, but much better in printed form because of photos & illustrations) |
| Picking Pockets, Wirelessly |
| Visit the Heathkit Virtual Museum for a Walk Down Memory Lane |
| ROHS Changes Keep Design Engineers Vigilant |
| Thin Air: ATSC Reception Isn't Always Easy |
| Solder Repair Saves $400 for a Replacement Key Fob (a little DIY for recessionary times) |
| Slideshow: The Many Facets of Microchips |
| Old Standards Live On |
| "All You Ever Wanted to Know About Radar Measurements" - App Note by Tektronix |
| "Challenges and Solutions for Testing Frequency Hopping Radios" - Free Webinar Tektronix |
| Flirting 101 for Engineers |
 Thanks to American Microwave for Continued Support |
| The 10 Commandments of Wireless Communications |
| Product Design Strategies: How to Keep Up With the Competition |
| Malware: Another Pandemic of Which You Need to Be Aware |
| Capacitor-Powered Electronics Is at the Core of Green Design |
| GPS Constellations Have Outlived Usefulness |
| The Time Has Come for Military Ground Robots |
| Patents: Fixable, Or the Next Weapons of Financial Destruction? |
 Please Thank TEC for Helping to Deliver RF Cafe |
| Radar Measurement Comparison: Swept and FFT-Based Signal Analyzers, by John Barfuss |
| Free White Paper: ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification |
| Free White Paper: "The Art of Teleworking" |
| 5-10-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
| New Boeing Job Announced: Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Analyst |
 Axsem Has Renewed Its Support - Thanks! |
| Power Meters Gear Up for Smart Grid Service |
| Patents: Fixable, Or the Next Weapons of Financial Destruction? |
| Testing DigRF for 3G Handsets |
| Reality Check for Star Trek Tech |
 Thanks to Procyon PCB for Their Continued Support! |
| 25 Microchips That Shook the World |
| May 21 IEEE Webinar: How to Win in a Competitive Job Market |
| USAF Radar Shop Member Jeff Jedinak Checks In |
| Padtech Industries - Manufacturing Services & Components - Listing Added |
| Kudos to Ajay S. for Winning the RF Cafe Book Drawing! |
Test Ideas: Program Resistance in a Bridge Circuit
Alexander Bell |
Power Meters Gear up for Smart Grid Service
Margery Conner |
| Demystifying Global Engineering |
| RF Cafe Forum Winner "biff44" Won an Coffee Mug! |
| Innovation: Genius, Practice, or Luck? |
| Congrats to RF Cafe Coffee Mug Winner Morten M.! |
| 5-3-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
| Wireless Versus Powerline: Regretfully Going Back to the Starting Line |
| Equalizers on Demand Amplitude Flatteners by R.A.Wood |
| Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing White Paper - Keithley/IEEE |
| ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration |
| Do Alpha Male Geeks Scare Women Away from Programming? |
| Impedance Matching Webinar - May 19 |
| What Happens to Phones When They're Recycled? |
| RF Engineering Inc. - Wireless Design Services - Listing Added |
| Overcoming the No's to Joining IEEE |
| Space and the Developing World |
| Engology (Engineering Technology) Website - Resources |
| Agilent Webcast: Solar Array Simulation for Satellite Testing |
| IEEE Offers Free Communications Society (ComSoc) Membership |
 Praxsym Continues Its Support of RF Cafe |
| Ubiquiti Networks - WiFi/WLAN/WISP Base Stations, USB SpecAn, Embedded Systems - Listing Added |
| Why Do Cell Phones Cause Noise on My Office Speaker Phone? |
| Heisenberg Uncertainty and RF Measurements, by Dr. Don Metzger |
| Take the T&M World Oscilloscope Challenge: Pattern Triggers (win $100) |
| 4-26-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
| 6 Ways to Find a Stimulus Job |
| New RF Cafe Poll: Have you ever built an electronics hobby project? |
| "4G Technology - An Overview" by Broadband Expert |
| ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification |
 Thanks to Polyphase Microwave for Their Continued Support! |
| Super-Regenerative Receiver, by Rohde & Poddar |
| Reinventing the Transmit Chain for Next-Generation Multimode Wireless Devices, by R. Harlan |
| NASA Software Repository - Lots of Free Stuff |
| Entrepreneurialism and Innovation During a Recession |
| Power Rail Filtering Improves PLL Performance |
 New Regional Service Manager Position Announced |
| New Kirt's Cogitation - "The New [Smart] Colossus" |
| Nanotechnology? What's That?! |
| Can Technology Save the Economy? |
| What Weapons Want: Q&A with DARPA's Microsystems Master, Greg Kovacs |
| IEEE Feature: Rebuilding Your Nest Egg |
 A Big Thanks to Guided Wave Technology for Their Support! |
| Dealing with Mad Patent Disease |
| Compost Software Site Available Again |
| White Paper - "Using Technologies to Increase Perfect Order Metrics: RFID, Speech" |
| "Mobility Starts at Home" - Video by Motorola |
| 4-19-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
Evaluating Impedance Transformers With A VNA, by
Ferreira, Pereira, Ribeiro |
| "A Bit of Radio History" (see pg. 64) |
| How Much Tx Power do WiMAX Nets Need? |
| ECA Digital Library - 1,700 Tech Papers |
| The III-V vs. Silicon Battle, by Darcy Poulin |
Analyze Bearing Accuracy of a Monopulse DF System,
Leo G. Maloratsky |
| Test Solutions Soup Up for 4G |
 European Antennas is now Cobham Antenna Systems |
| 802.11n: A Complicated Spec-To-Be is About to Become Even More Messy |
| Sherlock Ohms: The Adventure of the Incredible Sparking Car (very interesting) |
 Thanks to Microphase for Continued Support |
| Amplifier Research - High Power RF Amplifiers - Listing Updated |
| Pro Tips E-Newsletter - Machined Parts Advice |
| Ten Famous People You Didn't Know Were Engineers |
| Getting to 4G Through Design and Test |
| TrackWatcher - OEM Resource Tracking - Listing Added |
| Dealing with Parts Shortage Nightmares |
| Moortec Ltd - IC Design Services - Listing Added |
| RDO Labs - Design Services, Argentina - Listing Added |
| Free White Paper - ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification |
| Free White Paper - 802.11n Planning and Network Management |
| 4-12-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
| Key to Innovation: Universities |
| RF Cafe Quiz #21: Wireless Standards Knowledge |
 Many Thanks to antennas.us for Long-Time Support! |
| Motorsense Ltd. - Materials & Data Logistics - Listing Added |
| Says IGM: If Your Job Moves to India, Follow It |
| IBM Fellow: Moore's Law Defunct |
| Consider Carbon Nanotubes for ESD Applications |
| Space: The Final Frontier for Cell Phones? |
| CommScope Looking for RF Product Engineer |
 Phoenix Logistics Announces Opening for an RF/Microwave Design Engineer |
| CTIA Seeks to Block Cellphone Jamming Demo at DC Jail - RF Cafe Visitor Stevan M., of CellAntenna, Was Conducting the Tests |
| Cellular Carriers Need to Surrender Revenue from Illegal Cell Phones Found in Prisons, Says CEO of CellAntenna Corporation |
| CellAntenna - Cellular & Wireless Repeaters - Listing Added |
| Online Tools Home In on Analog Design |
 Thanks to Tharsus for Continued Support |
| Tales from the Cube: Flip-Flop Flap |
| Getting to 4G Through Design and Test |
| The Physics of Pizza Tossing |
| ESD Problem Diagnostics in IC and PCB Assembly |
| Utilities Suffer from CFLs' Poor Power Factor |
| A Smarter Way to Dig Up Experts |
 Please Welcome Haynes-Bent Consultants as an RF Cafe Advertiser! |
| TI App Note: Basics of Voltage-Level Translation |
| New RF Cafe Poll: What is Your Employment Status? |
| Online Inductor Impedance Calculator |
| Online Capacitor Impedance Calculator |
| Gartner: When Will the Recovery Begin? |
| Many Thanks to Analog Devices for Their Support! |
| What is the Difference Between a Human Eye and An Antenna? |
| Oren Elliott Products - Variable Air Capacitors - Listing Added |
| Free White Paper: "Getting the Most Out of WLAN in Schools" |
| 4-5-2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle |
| Free White Paper: "IP Phones Checklist: What to Ask Before You Buy" |
| Congrats to Peter C. for Winning a 15 oz. RF Cafe Coffee Mug! |
 2 New Job Listings: Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer & Telecommunications Infrastructure Specialist |
| Xenon Project - RC Model Supplies - Listing Added |
| How Much Do Your ESD Solutions Really Cost? |
| Patent Reform Effort: Big Outfits vs. Small |
| RF Engineers Automate Tests |
 Thanks to Fotofab for Continued Support |
| Catherine S. Won an RF Cafe 15 oz. Coffee Mug! |
| Tales from the Cube: Conspiracy Theory |
| Congratulations to Balaji S. & Mike B. for Being Winners in the March 2009 RF Cafe Book Giveaway! |
| BYD Throws 5,000 Low-Cost Engineers at Auto Li-Ion Battery Packs |
| AnaSoft - SuperSpice Simulator - Listing Added |
| Amateur Radio Quiz: Stating the Obvious |
| Delivering During the Downturn: Engineering Management Strategies at Top IC Companies |
 Advanced Test Equipment Rentals Has Begun Sponsoring RF Cafe |
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