Re: Smith Chart Amusements

Joel Koltner wrote:
Hi Joerg,

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:bmC%j.5051$mh5.4685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I guess I should find the old IT guys of ours and retroactively give them a huge bonus :-)

Sure sounds like it!


Even the one before was great. Yes, one as in the lone IT guy. When the company was <250 employees. He fixed everything as long as you didn't touch his Harley. We could always here when he arrived, the windows would rattle.


It can certainly help with that bandpass. However, I have observed a disturbing trend lately. New grads are often completely lost and can't do the simplest RF thing the millisecond the PC is gone because of a power outage or something.

Have you noticed how popular UPSes are these days? :-)

Once a major winter storm knocked us out for almost 24 hours. I suggested that our group head up to my apartment where there was a wood stove, windows that can be opened for fresh air, and beer (that convinced them...)

I think I'd hold out until you'd offered pretzels too... :-)


I had a few pizzas in the freezer.


But one must retain the ability to find back crucial information even if the Internet or the local electricity grid is down.

Even with the Internet and computers, developing your own efficient filing system is critical, as I've come to realize lately. Creating your own notes is (at least for me) a huge benefit as well, since of course they're written in "your own" language and filtered down to just the bits you found as being tricky, forgettable, etc.


Yes. And never, ever change that system. Saturday I remembered that I had found a "better" place for the shrink tubing. Looked in the MS-Works database file for materials, not updated to new location. Drat! Which meant I could not find it at all anymore. So a snippet of an old bicycle innertube had to do and now one of the receivers smells like rubber when you take the top panel off.


For an established company, yes. For a start-up you better find that $1k or free tool :-)

Yes, agreed... although you might be surprised at the prevalence of pirated software in small companies...


Not at my clients though. Lots of start-ups there.

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