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January 20, 2025 - everything RF recently interviewed Ernest T. Werbel, the Chief Design Engineer of Werbel Microwave LLC. He is from Livingston, New Jersey and got his associates in Electronics Engineering Technology, at County College of Morris, Randolph NJ. Ernest completed his Bachelors in Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark NJ. He founded Werbel Microwave in 2014.

Q. Can you tell us about Werbel Microwave? When did you start the company and how has it evolved over the years?

Ernest T. Werbel: Firstly, thank you for the opportunity to participate in the everything RF community. I appreciate everything that Raghav and his team have done for us since the beginning, getting our products listed on everything RF and featuring our products in the email blasts. I recognize the potential risk to everything RF's reputation in getting Werbel Microwave listed on their platform when we were just a startup. I am grateful that you took a chance on me when I was just a nobody. I am elated to have Werbel Microwave recognized as a provider of quality RF-MW products in this industry after 10 challenging years. I started Werbel full-time in 2014 but the story, but if I may, the story goes back a bit further.

As a child and teen in the 90s, I was always interested in electronics. When I was very young, a radio was a magical box with a voice. Later, when my grandparents passed in '97, my parents and I were cleaning out their home in Brooklyn. Among other things were many old and broken consumer electronic items (radios, VCRs, etc.) that they accumulated over the decades. At that point, I was 13 years old, so I knew there was something technical inside, but had no understanding. In those days, there were no electronic recycling programs. All that stuff would have gone in the trash. So, I thought: if we are going to junk it anyway, I may as well take it apart and see what was inside, to satisfy that childhood curiosity.

In the 2000s, I took a job as an electronic assembler, populating pc boards by hand, running a wave soldering machine, and doing basic testing of voltage and current. I found my way into the field of RF and Microwave through an internship program at the community college. I held several positions since then, including junior engineer and project manager. I discovered that my strong point was to take an engineering prototype and get it production-ready, to where high volumes can be produced by minimally trained people, and a senior technician can take the final measurements.

At 28, I hit a low point in my personal life, which will remain private. I moved back home with my parents. I decided that at this point, I would realize my dream of bringing back Made in USA electronic components. I had no budget and no real plan. But I said to myself: I am turning 30 soon. I don't want to be 70 and look back on this day wondering where this idea could have gone and regret not doing it. So, I spent the next month writing a business plan. I then deleted it because I realized that all I was doing was procrastinating.

It was around October 2013. I stripped our single-car garage to the studs, installed insulation & flooring, and painted. I had no knowledge about construction and had no money to pay contractors, so YouTube was my friend. I got some folding tables and a desk, set up a space heater, and used the last of my life savings and credit cards to buy a used network analyzer and benchtop CNC mill to make pc boards.

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