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		<title>Challenges in Space Qualified Hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Space is a really tough environment. Electronic parts must suffer massive shock and vibration during launch and often see wide temperature swings as satellites are heated by the sun then slip behind the earth into very cold outer space.]]></description>
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		<title>View from the Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Question and Answer session with Christopher Marki, Director of Research at Marki Microwave.]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2011/01/view-from-the-top/</link>
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		<title>Engineering Grad School? Fact or Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you’re thinking about getting a Masters of Ph.D. in engineering or science? Well, if you’re like I was, then you have heard a lot of rumors about what the whole process is about, and what you can expect out of it. In my experience, the advice floating through the halls of undergraduate universities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2011/01/engineering-grad-school-fact-or-fiction/</link>
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		<title>2010 Year in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the year is winding down and we are feverishly completing our final shipments for 2010, it is time to look back and see what we accomplished over the last 300+ days. By most accounts, 2010 seems to have been a very good year for the RF/microwave industry. While it is true that Marki [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2010/12/2010-year-in-review/</link>
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		<title>What is 217Plus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read Wenzel's first blog. Here, Liz Ronchetti discusses MTBF calcuations regarding the old, and new MIL-spec standards, and how this is affecting Wenzel, and the industry as a whole. ]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2010/11/so-whats-all-this-about-217plus/</link>
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		<title>Power Supply and Linear Regulator Design for RF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason's first blog discusses some practical tips for RF engineers in the trenches of power supply design. ]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s better: Tom Brady or Steve Jobs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who’s better: Tom Brady or Steve Jobs? During the World Cup, I wrote a blog entry about technology in football (i.e. soccer). Owing to the popularity of that light-hearted techno-babble and the excitement surrounding the start of the NFL regular season, I have decided to write another (silly) article about another (fruitless) pastime of mine: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2010/09/christopher-f-marki-received-his-bsee-from-duke-university-in-2002-and-his-msee-and-phd-from-university-of-cali/</link>
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		<title>A Case Against Patents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me how many patents Marki Microwave owns. The answer: zero. &#8220;What? But you&#8217;re a technology company, how can this be? Aren&#8217;t you worried that someone is going to steal your idea?&#8221; Well, not really, and I will try to explain the logic behind this position. Some will read this and disagree, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2010/08/a-case-against-patents/</link>
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		<title>Breaking My Own Rules With Shameless Plugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people ask my advice about pursuing a career in Engineering, I tell them the following: If you can go 30 days of the month without good news or good results, only to find on the 31st day that your project works perfectly, and this good news puts you in such a euphoric mood that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rfblogger.com/2010/07/breaking-my-own-rules-with-shameless-plugs/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Datasheet&#8221; is a bad word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the long and sometimes strenuous journey one takes in the product development cycle, the inevitable final stage can be the most challenging: the making of the datasheet. As an engineer, I dislike making datasheets. I loathe the idea that I am required to summarize the macroscopic workings of my “babies” (i.e. new products) with [...]]]></description>
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