Thanks for Putting RF Cafe in LinkedIn's Top 10%

This notice from LinkedIn came in my e-mail this morning. According to it, RF Cafe's LinkedIn profile is in the top 10% viewed in2012. Thanks to everyone who has viewed it. It's nice to be up that high in the ranking, but being in the top 10% of 200 million members means being in the company of 20 million others. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are 7.1 billion people in the world today (includes every man, woman, and child), so that works out to 1 of every 350 people in the world being in LinkedIn's top 10%. While not particularly impressive from that perspective, as compared to my home state of Pennsylvania's population of 13 million, it makes RF Cafe unique! This is a good illustration of how statistics can be manipulated to draw false conclusions.

Posted February 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...