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From time-to-time, we here at RF Cafe run across items that have been sitting around, not being used for a long time. So, rather than being a pack rat and keeping things that I obviously have not need for, I will be offering them to RF Cafe visitors by means of a drawing. You send me an e-mail when you see an item that you are interested in having, and I will throw your name in the electronic "hat" (an Excel spreadsheet with a random number selection). A winner will be selected once a good number of entries have been received.

The first give-away was a set of more than 25 electronic themed wall charts. Here is the current list of available prizes to choose from.

January 2012 Paul C., of Dunbarton, NH, is one of the January 2012 winners. Paul selected Microwave Materials for Wireless Applications, Graciously provided by Artech House Gary S., of Tracy, CA, is the other January 2012 winner. Gary selected Igor Grigorov's Urban Antennas	February 2012
November 2011 Tom D., of Durham, NC, is the November 2011 book drawing winner. Tom selected Phased Array Antennas with Optimized Element Patterns Graciously provided by Artech House Aditya H., of Germantown, MD, is another November winner. Aditya selected Plasma Antennas Graciously provided by Artech House	December 2011 Michael V., of Clayton, MO, is the December 2011 book drawing winner. Michael selected Essentials of UWB. Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press
October 2011 George K., of Westford, MA, was an October 2011 book drawing winner. George chose Substrate Noise Coupling in Analog/RF Circuits.
September 2011 Michael W., of Clearwater, FL, was one of the September 2011 book drawing winner. Michael selected Dilbert: Seven Years of Highly Defective People Brian B, of South Amherst, OH was also a September 2011 book drawing winner. Brian chose Human-Centered Information Fusion.
July 2011 James C., of Marietta, GA, was a July 2011 book drawing winner. James chose RFID-Enabled Sensor Design and Applications Graciously provided by Artech House Jason M., of West Point, UT, was another July 2011 book drawing winner. Jason chose Journey to Cubeville	August 2011 Dennis R., of Fuquay-Varina, NC, was an August 2011 book drawing winner. Dennis chose A Practical Guide to Error- Control Coding Using MATLAB Graciously provided by Artech House
May 2011 Mark M., of Carlisle, PA, is the May 2011 book drawing winner. Mark selected Advanced RF MEMS Graciously provided by Artech House	June 2011 Paul A, of Glen Cove, NY, is the June 2011 book drawing winner. Paul chose Frequency Synthesizers: From Concept to Product Graciously provided by Artech House Louise H., of Cornwall, UK, is another June 2011 book drawing winner. Louise chose  Computational Electromagnetics for RF and Microwave Engineering Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press
March 2011 Adrian S., of Cape Town, S. Africa, is a March 2011 book drawing winner. Adrian selected Cognitive Radar: The Knowledge-Aided Fully Adaptive Approach Graciously provided by Artech House	April 2011 Steve K., of Batavia, IL, is an April 2011 book drawing winner. Steve chose Klystrons, Traveling Wave Tubes, Magnetrons, Crossed-Field Amplifiers, and Gyrotrons Graciously provided by Artech House
January 2011 Travis S., of Pewaukee, WI is the January 2011 winner. Travis chose Component Reliability for Electronic Systems Graciously provided by Artech House	February 2011 Dean S., of Henderson, KY, is the February winner. Dean chose Understanding Signal Integrity Graciously provided by Artech House
November 2010 Richard (Rick) C., of Valencia, CA, is a November 2010 book drawing winner. Rick selected 3D and HD Broadband Video Networking Graciously provided by Artech House Michael M., of Fargo, ND, is also an October 2010 book drawing winner. Michael selected Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design Graciously provided by Artech House (Michael is the first two-time winner)	December 2010 Mark B., of Waltham, MA, is the lone winner of the December 2010 book drawing. Mark chose Battlespace Technologies: Network-Enabled Information Dominance Graciously provided by Artech House
September 2010 Patrick L. Zurich, Switzerland, is the September 2010 book drawing winner. Patrick chose Remarkable Engineers, from Riquet to Shannon Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press	October 2010 James C., of Marietta, GA, is an October 2010 book drawing winner. James selected OFDMA System Analysis and Design Graciously provided by Artech House David L., of Mukilteo, WA, is also an October 2010 book drawing winner. David selected Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-Inspired Systems
July 2010 Art J., of Chatham, NJ, is the July 2010 book drawing winner. Art chose Introduction to Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Graciously provided by Artech House	August 2010 Leon R., of Alexander, AR, is the August 2010 book drawing winner. Leon selected Analysis of Radome-Enclosed Antennas w/CD Included Graciously provided by Artech House
May 2010 Warren E., of Alexandria, VA, is the May 2010 winner. Warren chose PhotoImpact 10, by ULead/Corel	June 2010 James C., of Marietta, GA, is the June 2010 winner. James chose Special Design Topics in Digital Wideband Receivers Graciously provided by Artech House
March 2010 Morten V., of Vaerloese, Denmark, is the March 2010 winner. Morten selected Discrete Oscillator Design: Linear, Nonlinear, Transient, and Noise Domains. Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press	April 2010 Mark M., of Carlisle PA, is my April 2010 winner. Mark opted for Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations. Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press
January 2010 Jeffery V., of Rancho Cordova, CA , is the January 2010 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Jeff chose CRC Standard Mathematical Tables.	February 2010 Brian A., of Shallotte, NC, is the February 2010 RF Cafe Giveaway. Brian chose Igor Grigorov's Urban Antennas. Graciously provided by RF Cafe visitor Hugh P.
October 2009 John A. of San Diego, CA, is the October 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. John chose The Six-Port Technique with Microwave and Wireless Applications. Graciously provided by Artech House	November 2009 CLAIMED by Dec '09 winner Itay R., Germany, is the November 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Itay chose EMI Protection for Communication Systems. Graciously provided by Artech House
August 2009 Fred W., of Bellevue, WA, is the August 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Fred chose RF Power Amplifier Behavioral Modeling. Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press	September 2009 Brian W., of Toronto, Canada, is the September 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Brian selected Essentials of UMTS Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press
June 2009 Mike J., of Wichita, KS, is the June 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Mike chose Physics 1&2, by Halliday/Resnick .	July 2009 Jimmy C., of Daphne, AL, is the July 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Jimmy chose Calculus with Analytic Geometry, by Swokowski .
April 2009 Ajay S., of Fargo, ND, is the April 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Ajay chose Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering. Graciously provided by Cambridge University Press	May 2009 Ljube B. of , is the May 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Ljube chose Wireless Digital Communications Design and Theory.
February 2009 Dave R., of Valencia, CA, is a February 2009 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Dave selected Electromechanics and Electrical Machinery. Winner Dave B., of Albuquerque, NM, chose An Introduction to Error Analysis RF Cafe Forums contributor nubbage (screen name) selected Field and Wave Electromagnetics.	March 2009 Balaji S., of Germantown, MD, selected Electronic Circuits as his prize for the March 2009 drawing.   Mike B., of Jacksonville, FL, chose Electric Circuits for the March 2009 book drawing.
December 2008 Enrique R., of Duluth, GA, is a December 2008 RF Cafe Giveaway drawing. Enrique selected Advanced Engineering Mathematics. Jay B., of San Diego, CA, is also a December 2008 winner. He chose Modern Coding Theory.	January 2009 John M., of Tustin, CA, is a January 2009 winner. John selected Computer Engineering Hardware Design. Hugh P., of Seattle, WA, is also a winner. Hugh chose Short-Range Wireless Communications.
October 2008 Glenn D., of Palm Bay, FL, is the October 2008 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. Glenn chose the 1950s vintage Deitzgen Drafting Set.	November 2008 John R., of Jacksonville, FL, is the November 2008 RF Cafe Giveaway winner. John chose the Sanderson Flight Training Booklets 1960/1961/1962, Aeronautical Meteorology, and Aviation & Space Book Catalog.
August 2008 Patricia W. , of Tampa, FL, is the winner of the August 2008 RF Cafe Giveaway. She chose Thermodynamics 4th edition, by J. P. Holman.	September 2008 Jeremy K., of Wichita, KS, is the September winner of the RF Cafe Giveaway. Jeremy selected Handbook of Modern Electronics and Electrical Engineering, by Charles Belove.
June 2008 Mike T., of Glen Burnie, MD won the June RF Cafe Book Giveaway. Mike chose An Introduction to Differential Equations, 1982, by Finizio / Ladas	July 2008 If you entered last month and did not win, please enter again for this month. Click on the icon to view the list. I will pay shipping to U.S. locations only.
April 2008 Robert S., of San Antonio, TX, is a winner in the April 2008 RF Cafe Book Giveaway. He chose the 2001 ARRL Handbook. Kevin A., of Roanoke, VA, is also a winner in the April 2008 RF Cafe Book Giveaway. He chose HF Filter Design and Computer Simulation	May 2008 Jerome H., of Huntsville, AL is the winner in the May 2008 RF Cafe Book Giveaway. He chose Radio Handbook, 23rd edition, by William Orr.
February 2008 Mike P., of Vacaville, CA, was chosen as the February 2008 RF Cafe Book Giveaway Drawing. He chose Modeling Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs, 2007, Peter Aaen, Jaime A. Plá , John Wood.	March 2008 Mark B., of Waltham, MA, was the lucky winner of the March 2008 RF Cafe Book Giveaway. Mark chose Signals and Systems, 1983 Oppenheim, Willsky & Young. Alvin S., USAF, was also the lucky winner of the March 2008 RF Cafe Book Giveaway. Alvin chose Foundations for Microwave Engineering, 1966 R. E. Collin.
December 2007 Tom C., Fuquay Varina, NC, is the winner of the RF Cafe Book Giveaway Drawing for December 2007. He choose Automatic Control Systems, 5th edition Benjamin Kuo.	January 2008 John S., of Glenwood, NJ, is our winner for January 2008. He selected Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication.
October 2007 Congratulations to Jeremiah B., of Ventura, CA. Jeremiah selected Introduction to Communications Systems. This month we are starting a new format for the giveaway. I have many text and reference books that I no longer need to keep on-hand, and therefore will allow each month's drawing winner to select one item from whatever is remaining after previous winners get their choices. Obviously, the earlier winners will have the best choice. Click on the icon to view the list. I will pay shipping to U.S. locations only.	November 2007 Matt H., of Ft. Wayne, IL, is our lucky December 2007 winner. Matt decided to take the ARRL Antenna Book. Here is Matt's response to news that he had won: "WOO-HOO!!! Merry Christmas to me!" …LOL
August 2007 Here are more than 25 wall charts covering topics like frequency allocations, power supply configurations, cellular network configurations, coaxial connectors, and more. I will pay shipping to U.S. locations. We have a winner! Congratulations to Michael J., of Wichita, KS. Thanks to everyone that took the time to enter. Stay tuned for other items.	September 2007 Up for grabs this time is a Belkin IEEE 802.11g/54Mbps PC card - Model F5D7010. I bought it for an HP notebook computer that I no longer own. It is in like-new condition. Send me an e-mail if you want to be entered in the drawing. I will pay shipping to U.S. locations. David Z., of the University of West Florida, is our September Giveaway winner.

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