 Two Sides of the DoD Coin: Budgets Slashed, UAV Market Soars
By Fred Ortiz, President
dB Control
As we embark on a new year, imminent cuts to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budget are top of mind for those of us in the military electronics market. At a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing, the nation’s military chiefs cited a $600 billion defense cut as “catastrophic to the military” and having a “severe and irreversible impact.”
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LightSquared:
The Show’s Over
…Or Should Be
By Barry Manz
There are a lot of very technically astute people at the Federal Communications Commission. Many have decades of experience at every level of RF and microwave technology. How then might LightSquared’s proposal for a satellite/terrestrial LTE network have ever gotten past its first hurdle? Even a cursory inspection of the plan, in which the company's network would operate extremely close to GPS frequencies at L-band, makes interference to GPS devices almost a certainty. Read More...
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 Parallel Gap Welder
Model SMAPRO180 parallel gap welding machine can weld gold and silver ribbons as well as enameled wires without additional coating layer stripping steps. It eliminates the expensive and difficult stripping process and results in more reliable joints.
SW Tech Equipment
 Signal and Spectrum Analyzer
The R&S FSW signal and spectrum analyzer comes in three models that cover the frequency ranges from 2 kHz to 8 GHz, 13 GHz and 26.5 GHz. The analyzer outperforms all other high-end instruments on the market, with phase noise values that are up to 10 dB lower.
Rohde & Schwarz
 Externally Biased Balanced Mixer
Model SFB-15-N2 is a V-band, externally biased balanced mixer. The mixer employs high performance GaAs Schottky beamlead diodes, balanced configuration and proprietary bias circuitry to produce superior RF performance with very LO pumping level.
Sage Millimeter
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March 27-31, 2011
ACES 2011
The 27th International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics
Williamsburg, Virginia
The ACES symposium serves as a forum for developers, analysts, and users of computational techniques applied to EM field problems. Includes technical presentations, software demonstrations, vendor booths, short courses, and hands-on workshops.
aces.ee.olemiss.edu
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April 18 and 19, 2011
WAMICON 2011
Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort
Clearwater, FL
The 12th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology (WAMI) Conference will address research and interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology. Program includes oral presentations, poster presentations, workshops and, tutorials.
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June 4-7, 2011
2011 National Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Waves in China
2011 Microwave Industry Exhibition in China
Qingdao, Shandong, China
This 10th annual microwave industry exhibition (Microwave Annual Conference of China) is held in conjunction with the National Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Waves in China.
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June 5-10, 2011
International Microwave Symposium 2011
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, MD
IMS makes its third appearance in the Baltimore Inner Harbor since 1986 (where it set attendance records each time), and it promises to be larger than ever, with more than 400 exhibitors at press time and more types of technical presentations on a wider array of topics than ever before. The premier events of the microwave industry also includes the Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group (ARFTG) and the RFIC Circuits Symposium.
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June 5-7, 2011
2011 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, MD
This symposium, which runs in conjunction with the International Microwave Symposium, includes papers that describe original work in RFIC design and circuits, system engineering, system simulation, design methodology, fabrication, testing and packaging to support RF applications in cellular system and wireless data ICs, wideband system ICs; small-signal and large-signal circuits, frequency generation circuits; RFIC device technologies and testing; modeling and CAD; and silicon millimeter-wave ICs.
www.rfic2011.org
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•Switch Solutions for Systems with Low PIM Requirements
Dow-Key Microwave has invested in R&D for new RF switch products designed specifically to reduce intermodulation (IM) in coaxial switches.
Dow-Key Microwave
• How to Specify RF and Microwave Filters
Covers cavity, ceramic, LC, crystal and helical filters.
Anatech Electronics
• Establishing An RF Safety Program
Topics include basic RF safety, standards, monitoring instruments, performing an emitter inventory, and the steps required to create a program.
Narda Safety Test Solutions
• Mounting Considerations for Medium Power Surface-Mount RF Devices
Covers all factors that must be considered when mounting SMT devices.
TriQuint Semiconductor
• Biasing MMIC Amplifiers
How to bias MMICs along with theory and techniques.
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