 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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The News...
• RFMD® Expands Portfolio to Target Cellular Repeater and WLAN Markets
• Morelli Joins IW
• Ole RF/Microwave Peddlers Gathering
• Mouser, Linx Team Up
Enter to win Hittite's new 20ghz Synthesizer
RFMD® Expands Portfolio to Target Cellular Repeater and WLAN Markets
RF Micro Devices, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance semiconductor components, has extended its portfolio of integrated configurable components to include products for the cellular repeater and WLAN markets. The new integrated configurable components include the RF2057 RF synthesizer with integrated mixers and the RF2059 RF transverter. These components deliver unmatched levels of flexibility and functional integration to designers of radio systems. By integrating multiple common RF functions into highly integrated, size-reduced packages, the integrated configurable components enable designers to develop radio systems that operate over a wide dynamic range and across a broad range of frequencies and channel bandwidths.
www.rfmd.com
Morelli Joins IW
Industry veteran John Morelli was appointed vice president/New Business Development of IW’s Microwave Product Division in Danbury, CT. He became president of the division on April 1. Morelli has more than 40 years of experience in development, design, manufacturing and marketing of microwave connectors, components and cable assemblies. Most recently, he was with SV Microwave in a senior management position. Prior to that, he worked with industry leaders M/A-COM, AMP and Kings Electronics, working in various positions from design up to senior management. He is credited with the development of the BMZ and ZMA families of connectors and components and was part of the industry team that developed the 2.4 and 1.85mm families of products. Morelli has been an active participant in the EIA connector standards group in support of DSCC and is a Deputy Technical Adviser for the U.S. National Committee in support of IEC standards. He participated in the IEEE 287 precision standards group. IW’s Microwave Product Division specializes in the design and manufacture of high performance cable assemblies, wire and cable for military and commercial applications
www.iwmicrowave.com
Ole RF/Microwave Peddlers Gathering
The Southern California Chapter of the ad-hoc Ole RF/Microwave Peddlers held their annual gathering last month. The venerated group, organized and led by Chuck Swift, C.W. Swift & Associates, enjoyed a docent-led tour and ceremony at the Reagan Presidential Museum in Simi Valley. Following the tour, the group met at the home of Phillip Cox (formerly of M/A-COM, Signal Technology and California Amplifier) for a southwestern dinner and open discussion on the evolution of the aerospace industry over the past 35 years.
Mouser, Linx Team Up
Mouser Electronics, known for its rapid introduction of the newest products, has reached a global distribution agreement with Linx Technologies, a leading provider of versatile RF products. Each will add the other’s products to their own distribution roster, making both strategically positioned to address the needs of the exploding RF marketplace.
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MILITARY MICROWAVE DIGEST |
•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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