 Small is Bigger, Better and More Innovative?
By Bob Pinato,
ICCS, LLC.
Here we are four years into the worldwide economic crisis, which to date has yielded one of the worst financial downturns the western world has seen since the 1930s, and still there is debate whether or not we are facing a long anticipated election year upturn. Military budgets are being scrutinized carefully for the proper balance between the costs for national security, secure jobs in key congressional districts, pet pork programs and the cost of the war efforts.
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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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 Lock-In Amplifier (LIA)
The fastest commercial LIA ever commercially produced, the UHFLI (Ultra-High Frequency Lock-in Amplifier) from Zurich Instruments performs measurements as high as 600 MHz – three times faster than any other current LIAs.
BNC Scientific
 Coaxial Power Splitter/Combiner
The ZC9PD-172+ is a coaxial power splitter/combiner that is usable from 1100 to 1700 MHz. Features include low insertion loss (0.6 dB typ.), high isolation (18 dB typ.), and excellent output VSWR (1.2:1 typ.). Operating temperature range is -55 to +100ºC.
Mini-Circuits
 WG-Series
This waveguide filter was designed to cover a narrow frequency band in order to facilitate point-to-point routing of data over the network. Units maintain low loss and high rejection. This unit covers narrow frequency bands above both 18 and 26.5 GHz.
RLC Electronics
 Three-Section Narrowband Cavity Filter
From the new CS series, this 3-section narrowband cavity filter has a center frequency of 1521.5 MHz with an equiripple bandwidth of 2.6 MHz minimum, yielding an insertion loss of 3.0 dB maximum. VSWR is less than 1.5:1 over the passband.
K & L Microwave
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January 2012
A Brief Glimpse at the DoD 2013 Budget
 Within days of your reading this, lawmakers will likely have had a preview of what’s to come in the DoD 2013 budget – or what’s left of it. The HILL’s defense blog, “DEFCON Hill,” reports that “the 2013 budget plan will be the first that includes the $350 billion in cuts called for under the August debt deal. The Pentagon says that will translate into a real-world cut of $460 billion from planned spending. The cut for 2013 is expected to be around $25 billion, which will rile pro-military lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.”
There will be a fully funded new hardware program for an Air Force Bomber in 2013, with 80 to 100 new ones purchased to replace older bombers. A battle may already be brewing regarding new nuclear-armed submarines and combat vehicles, but some insiders are predicting that planned legislation may support the expenditures. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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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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