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      <title>Open position</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>fabseyfert</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1843</link>
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      <description>Dear Colleagues, We have an open Post-doc/Engineer position at our lab on the topics of multiplexer synthesis. See following link for details: </description>
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      <title>Re: 2009 ESA Microwave Filter Workshop [2 Attachments]</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:56:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Chris Radcliffe</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1842</link>
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      <description>Hi Ming, This looks a very interesting programme. Thanks for putting it up on MTT8, I wasn&#39;t aware of it. I would like to come but its probably a bit short</description>
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      <title>2009 ESA Microwave Filter Workshop</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:49:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Ming Yu</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1841</link>
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      <description>(The workshop registration is free) Title: International Workshop on Microwave Filters Start date: 16 November 2009 End date:  - 18 November 2009 Organizer:</description>
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      <title>Understand coaxial distribution systems</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:41:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>wuchanglim</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1840</link>
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      <description>Dear fellow coaxial friends Anyone knows where I can find the information regarding the followings equipment, reading the internet seems confusing at times, as</description>
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      <title>about filter&#39;s SHape Factor</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:40:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>lotzhan@...</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1839</link>
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      <description>Dear experts, Now I am puzzled with a filter problem. I want to design a varactor tunable bandpass filter which operates 100MHz-200MHz.The insert loss and</description>
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      <title>Re: Narrow band Notch filter</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:49:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Ralph Levy</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1838</link>
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      <description>Dear Yun, There are numerous papers on bandstop filters published in the IEEE Trans. on MTT. Try starting with the chapter on such filters in Matthaei, Young,</description>
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      <title>Narrow band Notch filter</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:00:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>lycloud1978</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1837</link>
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      <description>Dear experts, Can anybody give some guidance to the design of narrow band notch filters(for example, the notch band is 2000&#43;/-0.5MHz? I guess there need to</description>
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      <title>Re: Question for eps epsr from filter polynomials</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:13:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>RJC_1947</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1836</link>
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      <description>The small differences that you are observing are probably due to rounding errors.  When the TX zeros were optimized to give the required lobe levels, the</description>
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      <title>Active scattering parameters for passive devices</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:06:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Dr. Marco Kunze</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1835</link>
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      <description>Hi, I am wondering if someboby of you might recommend me reference (paper or book) about the fundamental definition of active scattering parameters for passive</description>
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      <title>Re: Question for eps epsr from filter polynomials</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:36:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>???</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1834</link>
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      <description>Thank you for your e-mail. Could you explain why there is small differece for P? At the page 312, at the table 8.3 The value of P j1.0 &#43;2.2128 &#43;j26.5826 </description>
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      <title>Re: Question for eps epsr from filter polynomials</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:05:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>RJC_1947</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1833</link>
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      <description>There was a small error in the formula for epsilon in equation (8.38)on page 304 of the book &#39;Microwave Filters ...&#39; :- F(s) should read F(s)/epsR This</description>
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      <title>Question for eps epsr from filter polynomials</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:23:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>ì í</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1832</link>
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      <description>Dear experts, I&#39;m now studying for polynomial synthesis from the book Microwave filters for communication systems. At the page 312, in the table 8.3 I got</description>
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      <title>Question for &quot;Novel Approach to the synthesis of microwave diplexers</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:19:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>agileahn</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1831</link>
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      <description>Dear sir, I tried to follow the paper, Novel Approch to the synthesis of microwave diplexers. I&#39;v got same result for the Type 2 example case. But for the</description>
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      <title>Extracting Coupling Matrix</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:33:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>jhgelb</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1830</link>
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      <description>Is there commercial software available that can extract the coupling matrix from the s-parameter file derived from the HFSS filter model with lumped ports on</description>
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      <title>Bandpass filter insertion loss vs fc</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:07:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>dieterpelz</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mtt-8/message/1829</link>
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      <description>Recently I was asked to comment on a narrow bandpass filter for high power at low VHF frequencies. A brief analysis revealed that the insertion loss would be</description>
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