There are certainly some small snags. Firstly, you have to register, giving your full user profile. Secondly, whoever is in charge has made a mistake, and so you suddenly find illustrations and diagrams are missing from many articles. Thirdly, you are offered a mixture of HTML pages, PDF files and *asp files for download, which changes from one issue to another. To make sense of this, you’ll need to know some tricks for downloading non-PDF format files. Any simple-minded soul who just saves an opened HTML page will wonder where all the illustrations have gone...

Here’s a brief explanation of the path to follow for Netscape users:

1. Open the desired page, then mark the link (= URL and / or Internet address) and copy it into the intermediate file
2. Click on the "Open page" option in the "File" pulldown menu
3. Then copy the URL address you have just saved into the appropriate line of the screen (using <Control> + <v>)
4. If you then switch to "Composer" and re-open the page, the screen is again re-structured, but this time using all the individual elements, which are connected to one another and can clearly be recognised.
5. Now go back into "File", but this time select "Save file" – it is best to save to a new folder on the hard disc, which you can quickly create
6. If you now take a look at the folder, your eyes will pop – it now contains a crazy conglomeration of innumerable files
7. To inspect pages saved in this manner, use Explorer to search the folder for "*html" or "*asp" files – they can then be opened quite normally using Netscape or Internet Explorer, and all the illustrations are there where they belong

It is also worth mentioning a new subsidiary site, which is concerned only with the area of modern semi-conductor engineering. The name chosen for it, "GaAsNET" is highly appropriate.

Address 1:

http://www.mwee.com

Address 2:

http://www.gaasnet.com

Microwaves & RF

It’s worth subscribing to this free periodical, or at least taking a regular glance at the homepage and saving what interests you. You can even access old articles and complete old issues. For example, there’s a link to an article on  “Designing a low-noise VCO”.

Address:
http://www.mwrf.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=9181

RFDESIGN

This is a magazine that publishes articles about “RF and Microwave Technology for Design Engineers”. Articles range from software for VLF to the millimetre wavelengths and from the RFIC Design to complete radios. The articles are excellent and available to be downloaded from:

Address:  http://rfdesign.com/