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“Be Very Careful”
By Tom Kurian, President & CEO, Renaissance Electronics Corp. |
“Be very careful” — a mother’s passing comment to her kids as they head outside. The words describe a way of living that is precise, accurate, and deliberate. It involves both forethought and a heightened sense of awareness. I wrote this to build awareness in companies involved in manufacturing and trading products for defense and Sat-Com programs.
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 Another Sad Moment For the FCC
By Barry Manz
A significant number of rooftop antenna sites owned primarily by wireless carriers exceed FCC public and occupational exposure limits, make it impossible for workers to avoid standing in front of antennas, and are inadequately posted with warnings and barriers. Read More...
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 New 6-Bit Digital Phase Shifter
The MAPS-011008 is a digital phase shifter for C-band radar applications. It facilitates easy implementation in communication antennas, phased array radars, and weather radars, and was designed specifically for 5.0 to 6.0 GHz applications.
M/A-Com Technology Solutions
 DC Block Power Dividers & Combiners
Series DCB-1020 is an in phase power divider/combiner with high isolation, small size and superior performance in a single package. These units utilize microstrip construction with blocking capacitors on all ports except those that are intended to pass DC.
RLC Electronics
 Surface Mount Bandpass Filter
CBP-1307C+ is a ceramic-coaxial-resonator based bandpass filter in a shielded package fabricated using SMT technology. Frequency range is from 1215 to 1400 MHz. It offers outstanding close in rejection, low insertion loss and high power handling.
Mini-Circuits
 CW Immune, ERDLVA
Model ERDLVA-218-CW-LPD-100 is a CW immune, extended range detector logarithmic video amplifier (ERDLVA) designed for ultra low DC power consumption. It operates over the 2.0 to 18.0 GHz frequency range and offers a log slope of 77mV/dB into a 100 ohm video load.
PMI
 UHF Input Test Coupler
The company provides a UHF input test coupler for one of the payloads in the newly launched Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-1) satellite. Insertion loss is 0.12 dB max.; coupling is 30 dB typ.; directivity is 15 dB; and VSWR is 1.25:1.
Delta Microwave
 High Power Amplifier Module
Model BBM5K8CKT is a 2500 to 6000 MHz amplifier guaranteed to deliver 100W output power and related RF performance under all specified temperature and environmental conditions. It is suitable for broadband jamming and high power linear applications in the S/C bands.
EMPower RF Systems
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December 2012
VIEW FROM THE TOP
 Michelle Yan
Vice President, Planet Technology
Q: The importance of sustaining and developing technology has reached a point where states and cities are more actively building relationships with universities and recruiting high-tech companies. Good examples are New York State’s “East Coast Silicon Valley” and several cities in Ohio. However, there continues to be a shortage of engineering graduates, especially those focusing on RF and microwave technology. What would your company do (or is doing) to help promote careers in microwave engineering?
A: As always, RF and Microwave remains a niche selection in the job market. For us, graduate recruitment and growing our existing staff are the key strategies to build and maintain our team.
Q: For those of you serving the military market, what do you expect 2013 will bring in terms of opportunities in this sector?
A: Coincide with general trend in RF market, we sees increasing demand for small size, and modularization in the component market. At the same time, the growing of SAR triggers demand for space qualified parts.
Q: If your company serves the commercial markets, are you encouraged by any particular emerging application or technology?
A: There are increasing new RF applications in China, Wifi and CATV have been two markets seeing strong demand this year. Meanwhile, Internet-of-Things is also attracting increasing eyeballs, though we are yet to see volume at this point of time.
Q: Last year, we asked what impact the global economic crisis was having on the markets you serve and on how you run your business. What is your current perspective?
A: Global economic crisis has inevitability affected the export market in China in 2012. This is further dampened by the appreciation of RMB and credit tightening. It is a tough year for many private companies in China with exposure to export.
Q: What countries or regions do you believe will provide the greatest growth potential for the wireless industry in 2013?
A: While the growth in China has slowed down compared to previous years, we think its growth potential should continue to outpace its developed peers. ♦
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MILITARY MICROWAVE DIGEST |
•Directivity and VSWR Measurements
Return loss and VSWR measurements are complicated by the finite performance of the directional device used to measure the reflected power. The only accurate and convenient way to make return loss measurements is with a well matched high directivity directional coupler or bridge.
Marki Microwave
•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
• 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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