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Components X-band Tx and Rx Filters The company claims to have released the world's smallest waveguide X- band Tx and Rx filters for military satcom applications. The filters have less than 0.3 dB insertion loss and have greater than 90 dB rejection in the complementary frequency bands. They are...
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OFDMA System Analysis and Design

OFDMA System Analysis and Design Samuel C. Yang Most of us today cannot imagine working (and living) without 802.11-based wireless networks, popularly known as Wi-Fi. Traveling professionals who really needed to send an e-mail and who had to drive around town looking for a hot spot can attest to...
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The Puzzler - August 2011

Math, Science and Logic Puzzles - for the "enginerd" in all of us (re-printed with permission from Pzzls - www.pzzls.com ) Download the Puzzler (PDF) The Smith Jones Robinson Riddle On a train, Smith, Robinson and Jones are the fireman, brakeman and the engineer, but NOT respectively. Also aboard...
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IEEE MTT-S IMS2011: Busy in Baltimore

The energy and activity levels of a large crowd are hard to quantify, but by the accounts of most observers, there was plenty of both at the International Microwave Symposium 2011 in Baltimore, MD, June 5-10. Event managers said the official attendance was more than 8600 participants. This number...
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G/T for a Satellite-Terrestrial Handset with Internal and External Antennas

In this paper, the figures of merit for a satellite-terrestrial handset with internal and external antennas are extracted, based on the antenna measurements with the handset mechanics in free space. The gain statistics are derived from the measured ant...
The figure of merit (G/T) for a satellite-terrestrial handset is a critical parameter for the link budget calculations, where G is antenna gain, which varies with elevation and azimuth angles, and T is the system noise temperature, which is the sum of the handset receiver and its antenna noise...
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