{"id":149,"date":"2004-02-12T22:15:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T02:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-02-12T22:15:30","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T02:15:30","slug":"casting-runes-smith-chart-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/12\/casting-runes-smith-chart-style\/","title":{"rendered":"casting runes, smith chart style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/archives\/smithchart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"smithchart.png\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/archives\/smithchart-thumb.png\" width=\"316\" height=\"374\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(you&#8217;ll get a bigger image if you select the above image)<\/p>\n<p>When I was a first year mechanical engineering student, I took a very obscure elective in (radio) transmission systems. I think the course was mislabelled, as the rest of the class was third year electrical engineering students, and I was the lone mech in the class.<\/p>\n<p>This was a hard class. It had difficult sums and brutal coursework. The final exam was extremely easy, though.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I remember from the course was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sss-mag.com\/smith.html\">Smith Chart<\/a>. It was some clever way of matching antenna characteristics. I don&#8217;t remember how to use one, but I&#8217;ve always thought they looked cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(you&#8217;ll get a bigger image if you select the above image) When I was a first year mechanical engineering student, I took a very obscure elective in (radio) transmission systems. I think the course was mislabelled, as the rest of the class was third year electrical engineering students, and I was the lone mech in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1707,1706],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-runes","tag-smith_chart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}