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After a 35 year long career with Rohde & Schwarz , including seven years on the Executive Board and five years as its Chairman, Michael Vohrer (62) has announced his retirement. An electrical engineer by profession, Vohrer played a key role in the company's success throughout the years. One...

Astrium has announced that the second dedicated military communications satellite for the German armed forces is now operational, following the latest series of tests that covered the satellite platform, the payload, and the components of the satellite’s secure control system. With this final milestone, the conditions for in-orbit delivery...

Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. has announced that the company has successfully transferred its first bipolar process, the W-series process, onto its 8-inch line in Plymouth, UK. The W-series bipolar process is a critical process for a number of new product releases as well as part of the ongoing support Plessey...

Orbit Technologies and SpeedCast Ltd. have partnered to deliver uninterrupted global marine communications services across all major maritime routes. After conducting exhaustive tests of global marine antennas, SpeedCast selected Orbit Technologies’ OrSat-G (AL-7103) marine antenna to optimize its continuous Ku-band coverage. SpeedCast worked together with Orbit to help integrate...

Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas has designed a miniature multi sector antenna in the 2.0 to 2.7 GHz band for use with COFDM radios. The new model, MSA6-2.4V/1795, has six antennas. It is unusually small for this type of antenna, being contained within a rugged housing measuring just 300...

Anritsu Co. introduces an on-screen coverage mapping option for its “E” Series Spectrum Master™, Site Master™ and Cell Master™ handheld analyzers. The option has been developed to help wireless service providers, public safety users, land mobile radio operators and government officials verify system coverage and perform spectrum clearing before...

Hittite Microwave Corp. announced it has acquired a license from IBM to manufacture and market silicon IC millimeter-wave transceivers developed by IBM. Also covered by the license are certain 57 to 64 GHz IC, package and antenna technology, as well as 71 to 76 GHz and 81 to 86...

EMC Technology , a leader and innovator of high frequency and temperature variable attenuators, introduces the QFA series for passive fixed attenuation from 36 to 50 GHz. Being passive in nature, there is no signal distortion, phase shift or time delay. The attenuator structure is internally tuned for optimum...

Vectron International , a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of precision frequency control and timing solutions, announced its new VS-709 dual frequency voltage control SAW oscillator (VCSO). As networking infrastructure equipment migrates to higher line rates, improving jitter performance is becoming a critical decision factor. Vectron’s new...