Updated October 10, 2004

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Jeez, we really hate to get "corporate" here, but some things need to be spelled out. Here's our mission:

1. There is a huge amount of microwave engineering information out there. Somebody needs to put the best of it into one place for everyone to access without wasting hours using a search engine. That's us, that's why we're here, working on Microwaves101, every day.

2. Paper textbooks grow out of date as soon as they are printed. An encyclopedia of knowledge on the world-wide web can be updated every day, and never grow old. It's a beautiful thing!

3. Yes, we do put stuff up "before it's ready". We find it convenient to edit stuff on line. If a page is messed up it will contain sufficient warnings.

4. The content on Microwaves101 is intended to be the following mix:

Useful microwave information - 75%
Humor and assorted foolishness- 20%
Historical stuff - 15%

The remainder of 5% is stuff we've misplaced...

5. Engineers are cheapskates and they work for cheapskate companies. They would never use this site if we tried to charge them. So we don't. Microwaves101 is free for everyone!

6. While we're on the subject of our users, we respect every reader's privacy. We don't ask you to fill out surveys or other nonsense just to get you to reveal your personal information. You are as anonymous as you want to be, if you are just visiting, asking a question on our message board, or contacting us for additional information. For those of you who sign up for our newsletter: don't worry, we will never sell your information to any other entity. We promise spam-free, and we mean it.

7. We are here to help. If you can't get a response on the message board, send a question directly to the Unknown Editor at UE@microwaves101.com. He's a busy Dude but he will try to get back to you in a few days.

8. In order to make all this work, some people have to pay for it. These people are called vendors. They pay for advertising on the site. We try to keep it as low key as possible, while we milk them for all we can.

9. We call a spade a spade. If we don't like a vendor or a product, we will tell you so. No trade rag has ever made that promise.

10. In-line content provided by vendors is intended to be useful technical information, not cheesy product releases.

11. Unlike many (if not most) other web sites, we never pop up any advertisements, and very rarely pop up any of our own pages. The browser window you opened Microwaves101 with won't multiply, and when we lead you to a vendor's site, you leave our site. They might use pop ups, but that's out of our control.

12. Although we have been known to use some politically incorrect humor, you will never find anything here that is patently offensive or pornographic, nor would we ever link to anything like that. If you can't take a joke, take a short walk off a long pier, or find a better microwaves web site.

That's the "Top Ten" in our mission statement, which is subject to change by the hour. Now do you get it?

- The Management of Microwaves101