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Oil Pipeline Fault Detection System Determines Material Permittivity at Microwave Frequencies
Researching fault location techniques for the oil industry requires data on the complex permittivity of the polyamide Rilsan at microwave frequencies....
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GaN in Plastic Enables Next-Generation Radar and Communication Systems
Future trends for military radar require multifunction systems that combine radar, communications, and electronic warfare. This higher level of functional integration...
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System Could Detect Concealed Person-Borne Bombs at a Distance
The recent tragic events at the Boston Marathon illustrate the growing and critical need for the detection of person-borne improvised explosive devices (PBIEDS). Such systems, in...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Pursuing Agile Signals in a Crowded Spectral Environment
For the capable RF engineer, continuous- wave (CW) and predictably repeating signals are no great challenge. However, design and troubleshooting become difficult when dealing with agile...
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Developing an Efficient RF Cable Test Suite for the Eurofighter Aircraft
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a state-of-the-art combat aircraft. BAE Systems has been working with other leading aerospace companies to make sure the Eurofighter Typhoon is...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Improving Signal to Noise Ratios in Defense Electronics
As a vertical market, “defense electronics” encompasses a huge range of systems, from portable communications to transportation, avionics, and shipborne radar. While the power...
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Electromagnetic Simulation Accelerates Design of Microwave Amplifiers
An automated simulation-based design cycle has become a fundamental part of the success of one of today’s leading designers of traveling wave tube (TWT) microwave...
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An Improved SDR FPGA Verification Methodology for Emerging OFDMA Waveforms
The rapid evolution of commercial technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) is becoming more attractive for Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and public safety...
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Simulation Optimizes Safety and Performance When Integrating an Antenna Onto a Platform
Successful integration of an antenna onto a vehicle platform poses many challenges. Vehicle features impact antenna performance by blocking, reflecting, or...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Testing Modern Radios
Several techniques are now being employed to ensure efficient communications across the chaotic radio spectrum. Chief among them is Software Defined Radio (SDR), which uses software to dynamically control communications...
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RF Switches
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (San Diego, CA) offers the HaRP™ SPDT PE42422 RF switch that provides linearity of 115 dBm IIP2, and 70 dBm IIP3, low insertion loss of 0.4 dB @ 3 GHz, and high isolation of 28 dB @ 3 GHz. The switch...
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Record and Playback Capabilities for Car Radio and GPS System Testing
With its international headquarters in Germany, IAV Automotive Engineering is one of the leading engineering and design providers for the automotive industry, working for...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Waveform Software
X-COM Systems, LLC, a subsidiary of Bird Technologies (Reston, VA), has introduced Version 3.0 of its RF Editor Graphical RF Editor software for modifying and building custom RF signal waveform files for use in defense,...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF/IF Recorder
The Talon™ RTS 2709 ultrawideband RF/IF recorder from Pentek (Upper Saddle River, NJ) uses 12-bit, 3.6-GHz A/D converters and solid-state drive storage technology to achieve sustained recording rates up to 3.2 Gbytes per...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Sheet Antenna
Pulse Electronics Corp. (San Diego, CA) has introduced a near-field communications (NFC) antenna that enables mobile phones to read data from a distance of up to 40 mm. The ferrite sheet antenna sends and receives clear signals...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Plastic Radomes
Custom-fabricated, weather-proof, plastic radomes from Mayfield Plastics (Sutton, MA) provide lightweight, durable antenna and electronics protection. Custom thermoformed from a selection of plastics that will not interfere with...
Products Electronics & Computers
Mixed-Signal Cards
BEEcube (Fremont, CA) offers six ADC and DAC cards for wireless applications. The cards have VITA-57 FMC-HPC form factor and are pluggable in any of BEEcube’s products. The FMC104 ADC and FMC105 DAC are singlechannel,...
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Transceiver
Lemos International (Barrington, RI) offers the SHX1 multi-channel VHF transceiver from Radiometrix with a usable range of over 5km, 500mW RF power and narrowband performance. It is available on 151-154 MHz MURS Band frequencies....
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
A Fundamental Key to Next-Generation Directed-Energy Systems
Imagine an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit on a routine scouting patrol deep in the notorious “Triangle of Death” south of Baghdad, where marines, sailors, and soldiers...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Radio Amplifier
AR Modular RF (Bothell, WA) has received JITC certification for its KMW2030 tactical radio amplifier system when used with the Harris PRC-117G tactical radio. It has been previously certified for use with the PRC 117F and the...
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GPS Protector
Times Microwave (Wallingford, CT) offers the Times-Protect® LPGPX- 05-T high-performance lightning protector for RF communications networks. The DC pass design enables protection of GPS receivers requiring up to 5Vdc power to be...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Power Amplifiers
Hittite Microwave Corp. (Chelms ford, MA) has introduced three power amplifier die products for microwave and millimeterwave radios, Ka-band VSAT, and military and space applications from 27.5 to 46.5 GHz. The HMC1014 is a...
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Modeling Supports Energy-Saving Microwave Technologies
During the Apollo Program, astronauts on the Moon encountered a small menace that created big problems: lunar dust. Similar to how tiny bits of Styrofoam behave on Earth — adhering to...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Receiver/Monitor
Integrated Microwave Technologies (Mt. Olive, NJ) offers the PSRX6-D Portable Surveillance Receiver, a portable ruggedized, six-way COFDM (DVB-T compliant) diversity receiver/monitor. The unit displays COFDM video transmissions...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Multilayer Bandpass Filter
TDK Corporation of America (Irving, TX) has introduced the DEA102450BT-1278A1 multilayer bandpass filter in size 1005 with dimensions of 1.0 x 0.5 x 0.37 mm. The filter is designed for the 2.4 GHz band, and is...
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Attenuators
Narda Microwave-East, an L-3 Communications company (Hauppauge, NY), has introduced the Model 769A family of bidirectional coaxial fixed attenuators for general-purpose and test and measurement applications. They operate from DC to...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Push-On Connectors
Carlisle Interconnect Technologies (St. Augustine, FL) has announced the TMP® and WMP® series push-on connectors. The TMP family is designed to provide higher power handling capacity, similar to an SMA connector, for use in...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Radar, Electronic Warfare, and Electronic Intelligence Testing: Identifying Common Test Challenges
Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) systems, as they were originally called, have blossomed into a wide array of indispensible equipment for...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Integrated Circuit
CML Microcircuits (Winston-Salem, NC) has released the CMX971 quadrature modulator integrated circuit, one of the company’s RF Building Blocks. The RF Building Block range is designed to provide high-performance ICs...
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