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[Magnus Danielson]

>>>>> "BB" == Buck Buchanan <buchanan at qualcomm.com> writes:

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

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

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

Oh, how true!

Are you all aware just how many trick you are using just cause you are
so near DC? There's a lot of them!

There are so called electronic experts (at time self-appointed such)
that just can't deal with the > 1 GHz range simply since things no
longer behave as they thought. Actually things have gone hey-wire way
before you reach 1 GHz. Is that cap really acting as a capacitor?
Is that copper plane really at the same level all over? Why is there
no signal here? Where did THAT signal come from? Oh, is this box
radiating????

Cheers,
Magnus