2007 Southeastern VHF Society / Mini-Circuits

                      Annual Award for Design Achievement


Overview:

    Harvey Kaylie, President of Mini-Circuits, was given a copy of our Conference
Proceedings and was impressed with the experimental nature of our group.

    Mr. Kaylie has pledged a first place prize of $1,000 cash, or a gift certificate
worth $2,500 at Mini-Circuits, for the winner of an electronics design competition.
The second place prize is $250 cash or a $500 gift certificate. Third and fourth
place winners would receive gift certificates worth $200.


Design Judging Criteria ( 25 points maximum total)

    0-5 pts: for new and innovative circuit designs, or novel uses of the
             components.

    0-5 pts: for exceptional circuit performance measured against established norms.

    0-5 pts: for construction technique, ie craftsmanship, aesthetics

    0-5 pts: for documentation, schematics, article for publication. Designs
             submitted in time for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings will
             receive extra points. Mini-Circuits will have the right to contact the
             entrant and publish any submission that wins an award.

    0-5 pts: Designs should be: original work, practical, and use readily available
             parts (using Mini-Circuits products will gain extra points.)


    Circuit designs should focus on VHF through Microwave applications or IF signal
processing for this range.

    Competition is open to any SVHFS member (attendance at the conference includes
your membership fee). Design entries will be final judged by the panel at the annual
conference in April. 


Panel Chair:  Charles Osborne, K4CSO  cosborne@pari.edu
                                      828-883-3684 h
                                      828-862-5813 w

Panel Members: Al Ward W5LUA, Steve Kostro N2CEI, Pieter Ibelings N4IP,
                        Dick Hanson K5AND and Harvey Kaylie.
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