We’ve all been there: faced with a tedious job that could be knocked out manually with a modest investment of time, we choose instead to overcomplicate the task and build something to do it for us.

The test and measurement world is almost universally a 50Ω environment. It used to be that, if you wanted to characterize a 75Ω cable for use in a 75Ω environment, you had to buy a very expensive 75Ω ...