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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (14708)	1/9/2000 2:15:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 54805

<btw, I'll be happy as a clam if we do 1/4 that well this year.> Got your fingers crossed, eh! <g> Ruff

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (14708)	1/9/2000 2:17:00 PM
From: FLSTF97	Respond to of 54805

I don't know if this links works but if not definitely go to www.penton.com follow the electronic link to Microwave & RF Mag and then search on CREE The title mentions the CREE device powering up PCS stations. eocenter.com This is the title and first paragraph: SiC MESFET Drives PCS Base Stations THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SiC MESFET DEVICE, A 10-W DRIVER-AMPLIFIER TRANSISTOR, HINTS AT THE PROMISE OF THIS EMERGING SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY. BASE stations eat up power. Amplifiers must combine multiple transistors to achieve the linear power levels needed for clean amplification of digitally modulated signals, such as code-division multiple access (CDMA). Given a transistor that could provide more power per unit size, the base station and its amplifiers could also be made smaller. Therein lies the appeal of the industry's first commercial metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) based on silicon carbide (SiC). Produced by Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC), the CRF-20010 SiC MESFET leverages the semiconductor material's high breakdown voltage and high thermal conductivity to yield 10 W of linear output power for driver amplifiers from 400 to 2500 MHz. I think this qualifies as "discontinuous" innovation. Fatboy

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (14708)	1/9/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

UF, those of us who also used a little margin and lucked out on a couple of snowballs did even better, substantially better :-) (not to rehash the margin issue that has been debated to death). This brings up a question, since GG is proving to be so profitable, and yet relatively safe (for techs). Does anyone know of a mutual fund that follows the GG strategy? We have all built our own personal funds around these stocks, but some of us (like myself) have a portion of our retirement money in restricted accounts that can not invest in individual stocks. I'm pretty much a prisoner to Vanguard on that score, and the only fund I see that comes anywhere near GG is the Vanguard Morgan Growth, but it is more of a large cap growth fund that happens to have some of our gorillas in it.