day jobs

[Buck Buchanan]

Hi all,

First off, three cheers to the 14 year old who started this thread - it's
been interesting to see what everybody else does + I'm stoked for anyone as
young as that and has rescource as vast as this list! (I didn't have anyone
to talk to about this stuff when I was 14).

I'm an RF Engineering Technician at Qualcomm in San Diego.  I work on phone
designs coming up with mods, tests, some minor design, and lots of
soldering - the tiny 0402 stuff you solder under a micrsocope.  It's a
great job!  I never worked above 100KHz before I came here and now I'm Zen
with 2GHz!  You know RF people refer to the audio band as DC?  I still get
kinda miffed by it....  ;-)

One cool thing is I've become sort of a sythnthesizer guru around here
which is an interesting parellel to my music synth stuff.... except these
synths run at 1.9GHz.  Working with RF makes you really appreciate how
straight forward life is below 1MHz!

C-ya,

Buck