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Rogers Advanced Circuits Materials Division (ACM) will be introducing two new laminates to the market at the IEEE Radio & Wireless Week expo at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa in Glendale, AZ, January 17-18, 2011. Rogers (Booth #2) will be featuring its new XT/duroid™ 8000 series high performance...

You may have noticed the two-dimensional barcodes in stores or magazine ads over the holidays. I downloaded my boarding pass on my mobile phone a couple of months ago and used this type of barcode to get onto the plane (although one airport did not have the readers available...

Microwave Journal has developed a monthly Military Microwaves Newsletter for 2011 that will cover RF and microwave technology, programs and market insights related to the Aerospace and Defense markets. It will feature two expert columnists who will give insights and analysis into military market trends, new programs and emerging...

The Swedish authorities’ nationwide TETRA network – RAKEL – which is provided by Cassidian, was rolled out on schedule in December 2010. The network offers user organizations the opportunity to cooperate fully on a national scale as they will no longer be limited by their radio networks. The primary...

South Korea’s commercial telecommunication satellite, Koreasat-6 (renamed Mugunghwa-6), was successfully launched by Arianespace from the Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. Thales Alenia Space , the prime contractor, teamed with US manufacturer, Orbital Sciences Corp., who provided the satellite platform. Thales Alenia Space was responsible for the design, manufacturing and...

Defense and security company Saab has received an order worth SEK 200 M for its ARTHUR weapons locating system, which is a standalone C-band medium-range weapons locating system that detects and locates enemy fire. The order was received on December 31, 2010, and is scheduled for completion in the...

ORBIT Communication Systems Ltd. has been awarded a contract valued at $3.1 M for the supply of multiple ship borne Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) tracking and communications systems to an undisclosed customer. This is the second major contract the company has been awarded recently for its tracking and telemetry...

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the R&S FS K130 distortion analysis software for optimizing active RF components such as power amplifiers and mixers. This software allows users to characterize and linearize amplifiers quickly and easily and even compensates for memory effects exhibited by many of today's amplifiers. The test...

Tektronix Inc. announced a significant expansion of its spectrum and vector signal analysis offerings with the introduction of the new RSA5000 Series Signal Analyzer. The new instruments raise the price-performance bar for mid-range signal analyzers by offering more than double currently available acquisition bandwidth and the world’s best real...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , an RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced that handset manufacturer, SAMSUNG , selected TriQuint for its complete 3G RF front-end for its popular, new Samsung Galaxy Tab. This is in addition to Samsung choosing TriQuint’s total 3G RF front-end solution for its...