 This
was sent to me by an RF engineer friend of mine, who wrote it for his
friend's wife whose husband is an RF engineer.
Ode to Old RF Guys I'm sure you know, we old RF guys
have bad joints (high power RF burned all the stuff between our bone
joints away). A common malady is our ears don't work (too many loud
booms from power amplifiers on the bench blowing up, too many straight
out of school college kids telling us we don't know what we're doing,
and managers yelling at us for schedule slips as physics is hard to
trick). We have arthritis in our hands from too many times grabbing
the needle nose pliers to tune coils, using tweezers to wrangle parts
we can't see anymore, and the countless times we've tightened the RF
connector at the end of a cable. We suffer from numb fingers from inadvertently
touching too many over-temperature RF parts as we tune them, and soldering
iron burns as the days are long and we get sleepy. We possess bad fingernails
from inadvertently touching live RF traces with 100 watts on them and
blistering off the skin underneath. But we have big shoulders, share
with others, and usually don't think we're hot stuff as the next RF
project will whittle our egos down to size always remembering we learned
all we know from other old folks when we were younger. Share that with
your RF engineer husband, I'm sure he could add a few more (or you could)…
Software is for sissies." - Anon
Posted January 20, 2014 |
