The lease proposal lands on your desk. Reasonable enough, you think; after all, this is an office space in downtown. “And it fits our team’s … Read More

The point of buying an ultrawide monitor is to see more. But then you play it and it doesn’t look right. The center looks stretched … Read More

How do you know when to stop adding hardware? How do you size a rack? Before you put anything in a server rack, go to … Read More

The page is sitting on a server just twenty miles from you, yet it drags across the continent as you stare at a loading spinner … Read More

You have an antenna specifically designed to take energy from your radio, which outputs exactly one watt, and direct that energy into a narrow beam. … Read More

This is the dBm to watts converter. The decibel-milliwatt scale is convenient as an engineer’s shorthand, particularly when specifying link budgets or the output of … Read More

In radio frequency engineering, there’s this thing called return loss which confounds even seasoned engineers and many hams. What is it? Simply put, this calculator … Read More

For an RF engineer, single number they reach for first when checking antenna match is voltage standing wave ratio. That’s because it measures how much … Read More

Why? Because radio waves is like water flowing off side of a bucket: They expand as they go; they thin out to nothing in background … Read More

Getting your dish pointed is a tricky business, especially the first time you try. That’s because your margin of error might be smaller than a … Read More