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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Miniature Optical Transceivers

A new family of miniature transceivers for Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications provides designers of network equipment a high performance, ultra small outline and competitive solution for high data rates up to 4 Gbps.
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Field Attachable Connectors
An expansion of a new version of the 820 series 7/8” threaded connectors allows these cable plugs to now accept cables having an outer diameter of up to 14mm max. This provides more versatility for industries requiring connections for Fieldbus applications.
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Voltage-Variable Attenuator
Model EVA-23-75+ surface mount, 75 ohm voltage-variable attenuator (VVA) controls a wide attenuation range at frequencies from 10 to 2000 MHz. It provides at least 25 dB attenuation (and typically 40 dB) from 10 to 1000 MHz, and at least 18 dB attenuation (and typically 27 dB) from 1000 to 2000 MHz.
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High Power Transmitter Combiner
This new line of base station power combiners for the next generation of mobile communications systems has been field tested for true high performance. They have shown excellent low operation temperature and stability for maximum reliability and energy efficiency.
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Space Saving Optocouplers

Long-body, low-profile 4- and 5-pin surface-mount SOP-6 mini-flat packages with a new extended temperature range of -40 to +110ºC are features of the TCLT family of optocouplers, offering the higher isolation voltages of larger packages while providing board space savings.
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OCXO
The VFOV400 Series OCXO offers extremely low power consumption (120mW), 35 second warm up time, +/-5 ppb stability, and exceptional phase noise in a very compact package. Frequency range is from 5 to 250 MHz.
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ISM Power Amplifier
The M/A-COM MAAPSS0081, a new 2.4 to 2.5 GHz ISM three-stage power amplifier specifically designed for cordless applications that require both low control voltage and high performance, features a wide voltage operating range.
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Voltage Controlled Oscillator
Model CVCO55CW-0200-0400 VCO operates from 200 to 400 MHz with a control voltage range of 0 ~ 5V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of –105 dBc/Hz @ 10 KHz offset and has excellent linearity.
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Extremely High Frequency Band-Pass
As point-to-point communications, as well as other markets, have shown higher demand for filtering applications at millimeter wave frequencies, the company has introduced the CAV-01329, a seven pole, extremely high frequency band-pass filter centered at 44.5 GHz, with a 3 dB bandwidth of 3 GHz.
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LXI Attenuator/Switch Drivers

New attenuator/switch drivers are designed for both bench-top and ATE environments. They provide an intuitive GUI and a variety of attenuation and switching options, as well as front-panel and remote-control features.
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Directional Coupler
A new 8 to 11 GHz, 10 dB directional coupler, model RFOC-811-QRC-dc-10, has field replaceable SMA connectors. The maximum true insertion loss and the minimum directivity of the coupler are 1.6 dB and 10 dB, respectively.
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