Matt Parker demonstrates
how easy it is to make it look like you are a genius
Rubik's Cube solver with a
very simple trick. The YouTube video has had nearly 1.5 million views, so lots of people know how to
fool you. Make sure you get to scramble the cube before someone attempts to impress you. BWT, I learned
to solve my Rubik's
Cube way back around 1980 when it first hit the U.S. market. The guys in my
USAF radar shop were all taken in by the craze. I can't recall who
solved it first.
"Scientists
are currently developing a technology using nanowires and crystals that have the potential to
split water into its components. This 'final solution' to clean energy could come
from combining crystals, called quantum dots, to teeny wires. The technology seeks to split water into
oxygen and hydrogen fuel. That fuel could unlock new clean energy for cars, boats and other gas-reliant
modes of transit ..."
TestPlace is a start-up company
determined to create a superior "MarketPlace for
Test Equipment." Inventory is built by a community of engineers, technicians, students,
and hobbyists looking to
Buy, Sell, and Trade all types of test and laboratory equipment and accessories. Please visit
TestPlace's website today and have
a look around. All equipment is tested for proper functionality before being shipped. Your participation
is key to their success ...
"By the end of this year, a team
led by researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, aims to put the
finishing touches on a 2,000-kilometer-long fiber-optic link that will wind its way from Beijing in
the north to the coastal city of Shanghai. What will distinguish this particular stretch of fiber from
myriad other long-distance links is its intended application: the exchange of
quantum keys for secure communication - a sophisticated gambit to
protect data from
..."
This
Chart of Radio Symbols would make a nice wall poster for your office, lab, or Ham shack. It has a nice
vintage look to it - because having been scanned from a 1935 edition of Radio-Craft magazine,
it is a true vintage relic. Although it would look great in its gray scale format, importing it into
a graphics program and adding a little color would really jazz it up. A bit of brown would provide an
aged sepia look, or you could go all out and custom color
...
"Researchers
have developed a prototype of a next-generation
lithium-sulphur battery which takes its inspiration in part from
the cells lining the human intestine. The batteries, if commercially developed, would have 5x the energy
density of the lithium-ion batteries used in smartphones and other electronics. The new design, by researchers
from the University of Cambridge, overcomes one of the key technical problems hindering the commercial
development of lithium-sulphur batteries, by preventing
..."
For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I
create a new crossword puzzle that has a theme related to engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics,
and other technical words. You will never be asked the name of a movie star unless he/she was involved
in a technical endeavor (e.g., Hedy Lamar).
Reactel has become one
of the industry leaders in the design and manufacture of RF and Microwave
filters, diplexers, and subassemblies. They have
established a full line of
filters of all types. The latest CAD/CAM methods and equipment
used in design and manufacturing. Many filter designs are available in either tubular, rectangular,
or waveguide packages, connectorized or surface mount, and standard or high power versions. Frequencies
up to 50 GHz, depending on filter type. Please visit Reactel today!
"Since World War II, the U.S. military has always expected to
fight outnumbered. Soon, however,
expendable unmanned systems may change that. For the first time in
70 years, America could have numbers on its side. That turns traditional assumptions about tactics,
technology, and budgets upside down. 'It does flip things,' said Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, deputy Commandant
of the Marine Corps. 'We've been down the path of
..."
7-year-old
Sharon Pakinas
was celebrated as the youngest licensed female- aka 'YL' (young lady)
- Ham radio operator in 1953. That was quite an accomplishment considering that she had to not only
pass the written test which included FCC regulations, operational guidelines, electrical theory, but
also pass a 5 word-per-minute Morse code test! From what I can find in a Google search, the current
youngest licensed girl is 5½-year-old Rosalie White, from Long Beach, California, who earned
her ticket in 1991 while a 5 WPM code test was still required. In 1991, the Morse code test for
...
"What's the single constant?
Love of a challenge. I was at a large hardware store, holding a power cord that I thought would fit
my new home generator, when another shopper pointed to the cord in my hand and said that I had chosen
the wrong connector. When I looked hesitant, he added, 'I'm an
electrical engineer, so I know things like that.' Needless to say,
I quietly changed my choice. But I started thinking: What are those things that all EEs know?
..."
"In the race towards miniaturization, a French-U.S. team-mostly
involving researchers from the CNRS, Universite de Lille, Universite de Nantes and Argonne National
Laboratory as part of the Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E)1-has succeeded in
improving the energy density of a rechargeable battery without increasing its size (limited to a few
square millimeters in mobile sensors). This feat was achieved by developing a 3D structure made of microtubes,
the first step towards producing a complete
microbattery. The first experiments have demonstrated
..."
LadyBug Technologies
means Peak Performance in Power Sensors: 9 kHz to 40 GHz and 80 dB DR. LadyBug manufactures a
broad line of First Tier NIST traceable USB power sensors that are
compatible with Windows XP, Win 7, 8 & 10; in 32 and 64 bit systems, along with LINUX. Also the
only SPI & I2C sensor available. Patented NoZero NoCal feature - Simply connect and measure to receive
a high accuracy measurement. Please visit LadyBug today to see whether their fine products can be of
use to you ...
It's that time of year again. Design News is now conducting
their 2016
North America Career & Salary Survey. This 10-minutes survey will be available
for your taking through November 7.
"A
report by three U.S. societies has highlighted the threat of rising helium prices, finding that some
institutions are paying two-and-a-half-times more for
liquid helium than they did in 2009. The organizations – the American Physical Society,
the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society – have created the 'Conserve Helium'
website to give researchers information on techniques that could reduce their helium usage and develop
new helium-saving technologies. Market forces
..."
When designing a receiver or transmitter using discrete components
rather than connectorized components or packaged integrated circuit, where the interfaces are at or
near 50 + j0 Ω, adding frequency selectivity beyond that provided by the generic
response requires inserting separate filters. If you are designing the entire signal path, including
the biasing, feedback (if any), and
stage interfaces
from scratch, you can include features that increase frequency selectivity. In the 'old days' with vacuum
tubes and interstage coupling transformers
...
"Microelectronics
experts at the Raytheon are enhancing their company's process for producing gallium nitride (GaN)-based
semiconductors for advanced
military radar systems, electronic warfare (EW), and other RF and
microwave technologies. Officials of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of the Secretary
of Defense have awarded a $14.9 million contract for the Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems segment
in Tewksbury, Mass., to enhance
..."
Anatech Electronics, a
manufacturer of RF and microwave filters, has published its October 2016 newsletter. As always, it includes
both company news and some tidbits about relevant industry happenings. This month, Sam Benzacar discusses
the topic of "Carrier Aggregation:
The Next Interference Challenge?," China's world's largest Aperture Spherical Telescope, Israel's
drone-fighting radar, the The Navy's new 'Stealth' destroyer, and Microwave energy being used in fracking
operations . Anatech's business is to make certain that system and circuit designers have capable filters
...
"Momentum for
WiGig is building,
and it should only get stronger with the Wi-Fi Alliance now certifying products based on the 802.11ad
standard, known as Wi-Fi Certified WiGig. Operating at 60 GHz, WiGig is one of the first millimeter
wave technologies to be available. 'This isn't something that's going to be available two years from
now. There are products shipping today,' said Kevin Robinson, director of marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance.
The first Wi-Fi Certified WiGig products, which ..."
Messrs. Britain, Shockley, and Bardeen, are credited with inventing
the first working
transistor
per their announcement in December of 1947. This article provides what was for many people an introduction
to the operational specifics of transistors. Although its crude point contact
('cat's whisker') emitter and collector arrangement against the doped germanium base element
was still in a configuration that did not yet represent a significant challenge to the domain of vacuum
tubes, people of vision recognized its superior potential. As with most technologies, progress occurred
quickly and
...
Modelithics, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of
two new Microwave Global Models™ for Würth Elektronik inductor families. As part of the
Modelithics Vendor Partner
(MVP) Program, Würth Elektronik and Modelithics collaborated to develop the advanced-feature models
that offer substrate scalability, part value scalability and pad scalability. The two new inductor families
now represented in the Modelithics library are the WE-MK 0603 case-size multilayer ceramic surface mount
...
Prolific technical
author Lou Frenzel, over at the Microwaves & RF website, recently posted a nice
primer on how
circulators and isolators work, and when you would use them. This topic might be old hat to most
RF Cafe visitors, but there are always new technicians, engineers, students, and hobbyists entering
the field for whom the topic is new. It makes a useful refresh for veterans of the RF trade as well
...
"For almost 400 years the prism
has been a unique tool for separating white light into all the colors of the rainbow according to their
wave frequency. Now, the prism has a whole new use, thanks to some truly innovative minds. Scientists
in Switzerland have created the world's first sound-based prism. The
acoustic prism behaves similarly to its visual counterpart: it breaks down sounds according to their
respective frequencies by physical means alone. Originally devised as a thought
..."
Microwavefilters &
TVC
(formerly just Microwavefilters before merging with TVC), located
in Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy, has had its listing on both the
RF / Microwave Filters and the
Waveguide & Components manufacturer
and services pages here on RF Cafe. "Our proved experience and know-how in manufacturing of components
for RF and microwave applications over a complete series of frequencies
(from 10 MHz up to 80 GHz) allows us to meet the market's demand with a wide, constantly
extended and improved range of passive components."
"As
the electric grid is increasingly powered by renewables, it will need energy storage for when the wind
isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. But the three top grid-scale energy storage technologies today—pumped
hydropower, lithium-ion batteries and 'flow' batteries—arguably, aren't up to the challenge. The U.S.
Department of Energy's technology incubator
ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy)
wants to change that
..."
Achieving clean oscillations above about 300 MHz
(1 meter wavelength) from standard glass and metal vacuum tubes is difficult
due to interelectrode capacitances and self-inductance of internal wires and grid plates. Generating
high power for applications like radar and long distance communications was made possible with the invention
of klystron, magnetron, and
ring oscillator tubes during World War II years. The UHF radio band spans from 300 MHz
to 3 GHz, and it is the upper end of the band where the wavelength is short enough
(3.93 inches | 10.0 cm for 3 GHz) to provide adequate spatial resolution
...
"Visiting customers
in Paris last week, Mentor Graphics' Chairman and CEO Wally Rhines gave a talk on the inaccuracies of
semiconductor revenue forecasts and why that may be, suggesting that
we ought to revive a nineteenth century mathematician's curve, that of Benjamin Gompertz, for better
predictions. 'Why is it so difficult to forecast semiconductor revenue?' he asked, acknowledging the
volatility of semiconductor revenue in
..."
Radio Service Data Sheets were published by various electronics
trade magazines back in the early to middle decades of the last century. SAMS Photofact® document sets
were published on just about every appliance made, and those had much more detail than these briefs.
However, for the low-budget repair shop or the do-it-yourselfer, the Radio Service Data Sheets were
a godsend. Included in this round are the
General
Electric Model M-49, the
Pilot Model 63,
the RCA
Victor Model 102, and the
Stromberg-Carlson
No. 69
...
The
THOR-16000-XA
is a multi-output frequency synthesizer with a single 800 MHz and dual 16 GHz RF outputs. The fully-custom
hermetically-sealed package offers a low profile design for use in a hyper-velocity projectile system
capable of withstanding extreme vibration and shock profiles; over 220 Gs. The
THOR-16000-XA locks
to an external 50 MHz reference and exhibits low phase noise at both RF output frequencies. At 100 KHz
offset, phase noise is <-118 dBc/Hz
...
"Fractal Antenna Systems has been issued a patent for a fundamentally
new approach to power gathering and transport, as well as heat transfer, with the innovation of metamaterials
based on fractal geometry. They were issued US patent 9,482,474, entitled 'Radiative Transfer and Power Control with Fractal Metamaterial and Plasmonics.'
Fractal metamaterials are collections of detached resonators, themselves intricate structures made from
repeated and scaled designs
..."
You might have heard that Obamacare
rates are WAAAY up for 2017. Being self-employed in Pennsylvania, the cost for bottom-end
(Bronze) plan for Melanie and me in 2017 is $772.28/mo.
($9,267.36/yr.) + $13,900 deductible. That's
$23,167.36 out-of-pocket before Obamacare pays anything
at all, and then only 60% of fees after full deductible has been paid. Check it out on
healthcare.gov . Oh, and if
I want to keep my current doctor, that plan this year is $974.75/mo. + $13,900 deductible
($25,597.00/yr.). It does NOT pay for emergency room, diagnostic,
x-ray, MRI, etc., until AFTER the deductible ...
"Moore's Law could be extended
again sans scaling, according to Robert Mears. Mears invented the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)
- the first commercial and still popular method of amplifying optical signals without having to convert
them into electrical signals (and back again). Now Mears believes he has invented an equally industry-changing
technology for CMOS called the
Mears Silicon Technology (MST). 'At Atomera our vision was how to
..."
"The 11th Annual
ARRL On-Line Auction now is under way. Bidding on nearly 300 items will continue
through Thursday, October 27. Participants must register. Those who have participated in past ARRL On-Line
Auction events may use their previous log-in information. This year's auction booty includes some vintage
ham radio items, including a Collins S Line. Premier items from the QST 'Product Review' inventory include
the Icom IC-7851 HF+6 meter transceiver, an Alpha 9500 amp
..."
Saelig Company announces availability of the
LoRaWAN Field Test Device ARF8124AA
- a ready-to-use system which provides connection with any operated network that uses the LoRaWAN V1.0
Class A & C protocol. It permits transmitting, receiving and real-time viewing of network radio
frames. Equipped with a large LCD screen, it facilitates the verification of all operating information,
such as GPS coordinates, temperature, and battery level, as well as network use parameters, such as
uplink, downlink, SF, Packet Error Rate, etc. Its built-in ultra-fast, precise GPS capability optimizes
geo-location
...
"The idea is to make the most of VLC even in daylight when indoor
lighting would typically be turned off. What's more, mobile users relying on VLC see how shining light
to a receiver can drain their batteries. Using off-the-shelf, low-cost LEDs and photodiodes, the researchers
came up with novel data encoding and LED driving schemes they presented in a paper, 'The DarkLight Rises: Visible Light Communication in the Dark' They
had to tackle various challenges, such as designing an effective driving circuit that would react sufficiently
fast (in nsecs) for minimal delay and to boost
..."
Here is the second of a 2-part article introducing hobbyists
to the relatively new technique of printed circuit board (PCB) or, alternately,
printed wiring board (PWB) fabrication. Author Louis Garner is from Bell Telephone Labs, which was
an early adopter of PWBs. Bell had millions of relay switch and controller circuit boards for routing
all the country's telephone calls. I remember a couple times in high school while working as an electrician's
helper where we did some wiring inside a phone switching station and saw row upon row
...
"The Army
is evaluating a new vehicle-mounted radio technology that enables Strykers, tactical trucks, HMMWVs
and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to share real-time, combat-relevant information across
the force. The new radios, called the
Mid-tier
Networking Vehicular Radio, were recently assessed in various combat scenarios such as rugged, mountainous
terrain, woodland areas and dense vegetation to test its ability to relay IP packets of information
through various high ..."
I have a confession to make regarding the puzzle titles. While
all RF Cafe crosswords do in fact use only my hand-entered dictionary of terms and clues
(literally thousands accumulated over the years) that pertain exclusively
to science, engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy, etc., the choice for a particular
title is to help attract search engines to the page. There is nothing deceptive going on, just an attempt
to exploit the nature of search engine algorithms that rank pages
...
Even
with the dominance of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, there are still a rare
few well-attended online forums that manage to survive. In my experience, they are usually the best
place to go for asking questions and receiving useful answers. GlobalSpec's forum has been around since
the late 1990s if memory serves me correctly. It is now affiliated with the IEEE and goes under the
name of "Engineering 360" and/or "CR4." Per
the FAQ page, CR4 stands for 'Conference
Room 4®.' Their tag line is "CR4 - The Engineer's Place for News and Discussion®." I could not find
why it is CR4 and not CR3 or CR5 ;-) ...
"Princess
Leia, your Star Wars hologram moment may be redeemed. In the original 'Star Wars' movie, the inviting
but grainy special effects
hologram might soon be a true full-color, full-size holographic image,
due to advances by a South Korean research team refining 3-D holographic displays. The team described
a novel tabletop display system that allows multiple viewers to simultaneously view a hologram showing
a full 3-D image
..."
Here are a few
electronics-themed
comics from a 1948 edition of Radio & Television News magazine. I particularly like
the one from page 92. Webster's Dictionary offers 28 separate definitions of the word "carry" in both
transitive and intransitive forms. The definition implied by the proprietor is #19 a : to bear
the charges of holding or having (as stocks or merchandise) from one time to another. The definition
inferred by the lady is #1: to move while supporting. How
...
"Researchers
at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and partner institutions conducted a systematic investigation
into the properties of the newest family of unconventional
superconducting materials, iron-based compounds. The study may help
the scientific community discover new superconducting materials with unique properties. Researchers
combined innovative crystal growth, highly sensitive magnetic
..."
"A new
spectrometer-on-a-chip that employs two frequency combs has been
unveiled by physicists at Caltech in the US. The precision spectroscopy system is based on pulsed lasers
and uses a technique known as dual-comb spectroscopy. This makes it one thousand times more precise
and nearly one million times faster than the standard instruments used today. Based on a millimetre-sized
silicon chip, the device is an
..."
In part one of a two-part articles, Popular Electronics
magazine presents some of the inner workings of what at the time was a fledgling industry - printed
circuit board manufacturing. In 1956, when this piece appeared, a large percentage of electronics assemblies
were still being wired in a
point-to-point manner where resistors, capacitors, inductors, tubes, and cables were soldered directly
to terminals either on special blocks or on tube sockets. The process was heavily labor intensive and
prone to miswirings. High volume production was nearly impossible prior to printed wiring
...
The November
2016 issue of ARRL's QST magazine
(p20) had picture of Jackie Ferrara's brick walkway at the U. of Rochester
in NY. Inlaid along its border are dark contrasting bricks representing dots and dashed in Morse code
that spell out its own name, "Path of Colors," as well as "Memorial Art Gallery," and the colors
of the rainbow. Pretty cool. There is no mention of whether Ms. Ferrara was inspired by a Ham or
maybe is a Ham herself. A short video shows parts her work
...
"The IEEE
802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802) wants to collaborate with the 3GPP toward support of IMT-2020
and next-generation networks, according to a letter to
3GPP from the chairman of the IEEE 802 Local and Metropolitan Area Network Standards
Committee (LMSC). IEEE 802 LMSC Chairman Paul Nikolich sent a letter to 3GPP PCG Chair Zhiqin Wang with
a detailed proposal on how the two groups could work together. “We propose some collaborative approaches
and request the 3GPP Project
..."
Skyworks is pleased to
introduce the SKY65903-11, a new low-noise amplifier, front-end module with integrated pre- and
post- filters for GPS receiver applications. This 1559-1606 MHz high performance module is idea for
global positioning and navigation satellite systems in end products such as fitness/activity trackers,
watches, pet trackers, smartphones and tablets. The device features high linearity, excellent gain,
and a low noise figure for improved signal-to-noise ratio. Integrated pre- and post-filters
...
"In the quest for faster
and more powerful computers and consumer electronics, big advances come in small packages. The high-performance,
silicon-based
transistors that control today's electronic devices have been getting
smaller and smaller, allowing those devices to perform faster while consuming less power. But even silicon
has its limits, so researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and elsewhere are looking for better-performing
alternatives
..."
Here is a type of chart I don't recall seeing before. This Tolerance
Calculator Graph makes it very easy to quickly determine the upper and lower extremes of tolerance values
for resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. It can actually be used to find the limits for any number,
regardless of units. This is one example of where a physical visual aid can still yield results faster
than punching numbers into a calculator.
"Shandong
University in China and University of Manchester in the UK have reported room-temperature thermal-evaporation
silicon monoxide (SiO) passivation for aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs). The passivation reduced
leakage currents and increased breakdown voltages compared with unpassivated and silicon nitride (SiNx)
passivated devices
..."
Heathkit produced
a broad spectrum of electronics kits that covered a broad spectrum of technologies, from simple digital
clocks to amateur radio transceivers, AM/FM radios, and even color televisions. Cheap offshore manufacturing
made building your own equipment more expensive than buying a factory model, spelling the end of Heathkit.
A resurgence of the DIY mindset and a new cadre of enthusiastic 'builders' has motivated Heathkit to
begin resurrecting some of their most popular kits, albeit with updated components. The
Most
Reliable Clock™ is their newest release, and will appeal to Hams with its 'One-touch perpetual ID
timer.' It has other very unique features as well. Check it out
...
"Scientists
have found a way to significantly improve computer performance. They propose the use of the so-called
T-waves, or terahertz radiation as a means of resetting computer memory cells. This
process is several thousand times faster than magnetic-field-induced switching. Together with their
colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands, scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
(MIPT) have found a way to significantly improve computer performance. In their
..."
By RF Cafe - The concept
of a decibel (dB) is understandably
difficult and confusing for someone just being introduced to it. Combining specifications for gain,
power, and voltage (and current, but not so often) that mix dB, dBm, dBW,
watts, milliwatts, voltage, millivolts, etc., often requires converting back and forth between linear
values and decibel values. This brief tutorial will help to clarify the difference between working with
decibels and working with linear values. Anxiety Alert: Using decibels involves working with logarithms.
Logarithms (logs) were first conceived of in the early 1600s by Scottish mathematician John Napier,
as a tool for simplifying ...
"These
novels and short stories look to meld the mechanical with humanity. Some delve into the moral issues
surrounding technological advances; others appeal to the spirit of innovation and the
power of
smart people. We know not everyone enjoys reading or even has time for it. So for your convenience,
we've sorted these books by word count from least to most. 'The Cold Equations' by Tom Godwin (10,095
words) Barton ..."
"Early
this year, analyst Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research predicted that the tech world was going
to see
big layoffs in 2016—some 330,000 in all at major tech companies.
At the time, these numbers seemed way over the top. Then IBM started slashing jobs in March—and continued
to wield the ax over and over as the year progressed. Yahoo began layoffs of some 15 percent of
its employees in February. Intel announced in April that it would lay off 12,000 this year. So, was
Chowdhry right?
..."
"You don't see any doctors handing out any free diagnoses, do
you?," asked Barney, rhetorically, when discussing with Mac the expectation of many customers for them
to troubleshoot an electronics appliance to determine what the cost would be to restore it to working
order. An article is cited from a trade magazine where a customer refused to pay a repair
estimate fee even though he decided not to get the work done. It is the age-old lament about people
who expect you to perform work for them at no cost, but would never consider plying their trade for
someone
...
"U.S.
Air Force air-surveillance experts are asking Lockheed Martin Corp. to build and install a long-range
gap-filler radar system at Hanscom Air Force base, Massachusetts, northwest
of Boston. Officials of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base announced
a potential $41.7 million contract Thursday to the Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems segment
in Syracuse, N.Y., for gap-filler radar at Hanscom. Gap-filler radar supplements the coverage of the
principal air-defense, air surveillance, and air-traffic-control radar
..."
The
secret of Mjölnir, Thor's hammer,
has finally been revealed. As it turns out, being found 'worthy' of lifting Mjölnir requires having
the right thumbprint. Well, at least inventor / maker Allen Pan's version of the hammer does. The July/August
issue of Popular Science ran an article on Pan's cleverly converted toy Mjölnir wherein he
buried four lead-acid batteries to power a scrounged microwave oven transformer for duty as an electromagnet.
An Arduino Uno-driven sensor detects Pan's unique thumbprint and disables
...
"There's
never a good time for a corporation to get a black eye, but now is a particularly bad time for
Korea's Samsung. The company's recall of 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, and its shutdown of sales and production
also call attention to its recent recalls of other, unrelated products. 'What was
remarkable here was that this was the world's leading company for batteries and for consumer electronics,
..."
"Last year was a good
year for most, but not all electrical engineers.
Salaries
for EEs rose 3.85% on average in 2015, but gender and racial gaps in salaries widened, according
to an annual survey published this week by the IEEE. EEs earned a median pre-tax income of $138,285
last year including base salary, commissions, bonuses and net self-employment. Strip away overtime pay,
profit sharing, and other supplemental earnings, and the 2015 figure drops to $135,000, up from $130,000
in 2014
..."
"In a new market research analysis, Technavio have predicted
that the
global power amplifier market will grow steadily over the next four
years and will post an impressive CAGR of almost 14% thru 2020. This analysis identifies the emergence
of next generation wireless networks as one of the primary growth factors for this market. The growing
popularity of mobile communication devices and next-generation wireless networks such as 3G, 4G, and
5G has resulted in an increase in network traffic
..."
"I cannot seriously believe in it because the theory cannot be
reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky
actions at a distance." -
Albert Einstein, on quantum theory, in a letter to Max Born, on March 3, 1947
...
Russian officials have
unveiled a 'microwave gun' that can disable an unmanned
drone and even a missile from up to 0.6 miles
(1km) away. The first sample of the weapon has been revealed following
a secretive Russian Defense Ministry exhibition. The 'death ray' will be used to target enemy drones
and apparently deactivates the radios of UAVs and warheads, causing them
...
Anatech Electronics offers
the industry's largest portfolio of high-performance standard and customized RF and microwave filters
and filter-related products for military, commercial, aerospace and defense. Anatech has introduced
3 new filter designs:
a 4000-8000 MHz stripline bandpass filter with SMA connectors, a 105-115 MHz user tunable VHF filter
with SMA connectors, and an 2037.5 MHz Wi-Fi cavity bandpass filter with N connectors. Custom design
are ...
I
wonder when searching for useful career
enhancement and job search articles whether the only thing the authors have ever done is write advice
columns. Many of them are professional career coaches, which does not necessarily qualify or disqualify
an author. There are many 'professionals' who have a job advising other people without
...
- Important
Job Interview
Questions
You Must Ask
-
Writing a Cover Letter from
a Job Description
-
Things to Check Before You Start
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