"Red Eye Jedi" Martin Rowe Strikes Back

Test & Measurement World's crooning engineer Martin Rowe introduced his latest ode to the underappreciated and overworked members of society known as engineers. "'Red Eye Jedi' is a song for the engineers and technicians who have spent weekends on the road fixing problems. All too often, these trips come up at the last minute, ruining weekend plans. The inspiration for the song came from when I worked for a company that made measurement-and-control systems. One Friday afternoon, a call came in from an ice cream company that used one of your systems to monitor freezer temperature. The customer said in a voice kind of like Darth Vader, 'This factory must run.' ... The 'red eye' part of the song comes from the fact that I have flown many a red-eye flight from California to Boston over the years.

Posted January 2013

Innovative Power Products (IPP) Directional Couplers - RF Cafe Website

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...