Re: µwave filter design (help needed)

"Joel Kolstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Laura Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why are you only looking on the web? Does your school
> > not have a library?
> 
> He's probably looking because the web tends to be more efficient in its
> searches than any library (i.e., Google searches the contents of web pages
> themselves, whereas libraries are only able to search via titles or
> sometimes summaries) and also because the web tends to be have its eye a
> little more bent towards practical applications rather than strictly
> theoretical concerns (something that libraries are filled with!).  Of
> course, I'd never suggest a library isn't a wonderful resource as well, just
> giving you some insight from someone who's spent plenty of time in both.

Thanks for the words-of-one-syllable-or-less explanation.
If the information isn't on the web, no search engine is
going to find it.

> > There are zillions of papers on the subject out there.
> 
> Yes, but unless he uncovers one that's specifically meant to be a review of
> well-known subjects or tutorial in nature (such papers do of course exist,
> but they're few and far between given that most professional journals are
> aimed at publishing new research), he'll be wasting his time since it's
> clear he needs some pretty introductory material at this point.
> 
> Sorry if this sounds unkind, it's just that a lot of students I know have
> wasted tons of time trying to understand journal articles when what they
> really need is a good textbook.

The ARRL and RSGB have published numerous books on
microwave stuff. Not only does the material tend to be
at a very practical nuts and bolts level, the references
tend to be pretty good. There are lots of others,
thugh the specialist journals like VHF Communications/
UKW-Berichte and DUBUS tend to be hard to come by.

What makes you think I don't know what being a student
is like? I'd hate to think I wasted such an obscene
amount of money on my B.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees. I
completed the latter in 2000, and the Internet was an
important tool. But it wasn't my *only* tool. Anybody
who thinks it is is either naive or stupid.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH     "Que les nuages soient notre
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