IN MY OPINION
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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FROM WHERE WE SIT

By Bob Pinato, Owner, ICCS, LLC.

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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Headlines: Saturday, February 04, 2012
 
  • RF Record and Playback System Has Instantaneous Bandwidth of DC to 6000
    X-COM Systems has introduced the Wideband Acquisition Record and Playback (WARP) system that allows the entire frequency spectrum between DC and 6000 MHz to be instantaneously captured and recorded for long periods without loss of a single event.
  • Healthcare to Spend $4 Billion on DAS by 2015
    A report from In-Stat forecasts that hospitals and healthcare expenditures for Distributed Antenna System (DAS) installations will surpass $4 billion in 2015, largely to improve signal quality within the labyrinthine structures of medical facilities.
  • Latest Amateur Satellite Functioning Normally
    After a variety of battery-oriented issues, amateur radio's newest satellite (ARISSat-1/KEDR) appears to be functioning normally after being deployed from the International Space Station by three cosmonauts on August 4.
  • Backhaul Equipment Market Projected to Reach $9 Billion by 2015
    A market report from the Dell'Oro Group projects that mobile backhaul market revenue will reach $9 billion by 2015. As networks throughout the world are upgraded to LTE, availability of sufficient backhaul capacity will be a key enabler to customer experience.
  • 3D Mobile Devices Will Eclipse 148 Million in 2015
    Although implementation of 3D in mobile devices is currently embryonic, the immense size of the potential market is driving companies to develop the advanced technologies to make it happen, according to report from In-Stat called “3D on Mobile Technology...
  • Microwave Technology for Quantum Computers?
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated the use of microwave technology for performing quantum entanglement, which could make it possible to produce inexpensive quantum computers that could perform functions that today ...
  • Time Warner Cable Mobile Hotspot Connects Up to Eight Users
    Time Warner Cable's IG2 Personal Mobile Hotspot can connect up to eight other Wi-Fi devices and is made by Sierra Wireless. Both the IG2 and its predecessor, IntelliGo, are very small, measuring only 2.67 x 2.67 x 0.68 in. thick, and have a 1.6 in. LCD display.
  • Deloitte: 4G Could Add to GDP
    A new report from Deloitte states that investment in LTE could potentially create $151 billion in GDP growth in the US and that wireless carriers are expected to spend $25 to $53 billion to deploy the systems between 2012 and 2016.
  • Survey Calls Mobile "Tops" in Tech Trends
    The first annual Technology Outlook research report conducted by BlueWolf boldly claims that mobile technology is “remaking entire industries,” resulting from the rapid adoption of HTML5 and huge numbers of applications designed for Apple and Android devices.
  • Dish Network Details Terrestar LTE Plan
    Dish Network is calling on the FCC to allow it to use satellite communications spectrum is bought from Terrestar to let them deploy LTE-Advanced, which is not yet even a standard. In an application to the agency, Dish Network detailed its plans to transfer S-band licenses...
  • A Rare Vote Against DAS
    While the logic of installing distributed antenna systems and new buildings is making sense to more and more people all of the time, not everyone considers them a “must have”. According to the Spring Grove Herald newspaper, commissioners in a Minnesota county voted 3 to 2...
  • Report: GaAs Wireless Infrastructure Devices to Reach $320 Million in 2015
    Strategy Analytics’ “GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service Forecast and Outlook, “Wireless Infrastructure RF Power Device Demand: 2011 - 2015,” forecasts that developments like MIMO (Multiple Input/Multiple Output) antennas...
  • Accolade for Water Mission Technology
    Members of the driving force behind the European Space Agency’s Soil Moisture & Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, whose spacecraft has been in orbit since 2009, have been awarded the Certificate of Recognition by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society...
  • George Devol A Microwave Man As Well
    George Charles Devol, Jr., who died on August 11 at 99, and was awarded a patent for Unimate, the first digitally-operated programmable robotic arm, was also a “sensors guy”, and while holding more than 40 patents, also had a hand in development of the first microwave oven.
  View From The Top

• Modern Signals Require a Modern Approach to Spectrum Monitoring and Emitter Location
By I.C. Tillman and Raymond Shen, PhD, Agilent Technologies

• Need for Field Testing to Continue to Grow
By Jessy Cavazos, Industry Director, Test and Measurement, Frost & Sullivan

• GaAs and GaN MMIC Power Amplifiers Support Military and Test Applications to 48 GHz
By Hittite Microwave

• RFMD’s GaN Portfolio Expands to Include High-Linearity, Broadband Power Amplifiers
By Jason Layton, Design Engineer, RFMD®

• Joint Tactical Radio System: A New Standard in Voice and Data Communication Capabilities for Defense & Aerospace
By Mark Vitellaro, Strategic Product Marketing Manager, Richardson RFPD

• Four-Channel Vector Signal Generator Speeds MIMO Testing
By Ray Swanson, Product Planner, X-COM Systems

• A Brief Glimpse at the DoD 2013 Budget
Karen Hoppe, Editor, Microwave Product Digest
  This Month's Cover Products
Dual Band, Solid State Amplifiers Dual Band, Solid State Amplifiers
With these new dual band amplifiers, the customer has freedom like never before. Choose the power from 5 to 80W. Select the bandwidth from 0.7 to 8.0 GHz, 0.7 to 10.6 GHz or 0.7 to 18 GHz. Result: one package that costs less, weighs less, and takes less space than two separate amplifiers. There are 28 different models to choose from.
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation
High Power Silicon PIN Diode SPDT Switch High Power Silicon PIN Diode SPDT Switch
The new SKY12207-306LF broadband high power handling, high linearity, single-pole double-throw (SPDT) silicon, PIN diode, T/R switch is the first in a series of high power switches. It is well-suited for use as a high power transmit/receive switch in a variety of telecommunication systems, such as TDD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, or WiMAX base stations; land mobile radios and military communication systems.
Skyworks Solutions
Compact Four-Channel Vector Signal Generator Compact Four-Channel Vector Signal Generator
The 4CH-VSG2000 combines four independent, arbitrary waveform, vector signal generators with up to 440 MHz of bandwidth, 4 Tbytes of waveform storage, and control circuits into a 2U rack enclosure. The system allows multi-receiver wireless products, MIMO circuits, radars, and defense systems to be simulated with a complex RF signal environment to determine its performance in actual operating conditions.
X-COM Systems
   Featured Products
Coaxial Power Splitter/Combiner Coaxial Power Splitter/Combiner
The ZB4PD-222-75+ is a coaxial power splitter/combiner featuring wideband coverage of 950 to 2200 MHz; high isolation (25 dB typ.); up to 10W power input as a splitter; and a rugged, shielded case. Applications include satellite communications and GPS.
Mini-Circuits
Oscilloscope with MSO Functionality Temperature Compensating Attenuator
Model RFSA4013 is a fully monolithic analog temperature compensating attenuator (TCA) featuring exceptional linearity over its entire gain control range. It is designed to offset the gain reduction of an RF component over temperature without the need for closed loop feedback.
RFMD
   Industry News

• In-Stat: Hotspot Usage to Reach 120 Billion Connects by 2015
• Fisher Joins Modelithics Management
• Fred Ortiz Promoted to Executive VP at dB Control
• Wireless Telecom Group Nets Navy $3 Million Navy Pact
• Giga-tronics Names New Vice President of Marketing
• Tahoe RF Semiconductor Offers LightSquared Interference Solution
• Aeroflex endows $1.4 Million Lab at Lancaster University
• SpiderCloud Wireless Demonstrates Self-Optimizing RAN
• Custom MMIC Design Services Wins 2011 Army Achievement Award
• Wireless Backhaul Via Satellite Shifts Focus

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