Articles by Microwave Journal Staff

The Line-of-sight Antitank (LOSAT) system developed by Lockheed Martin successfully completed engineering development flight test-1 (EDF-1) at White Sands Missile range, NM. The LOSAT system fired a kinetic energy missile (KEM) more than three kilometers down range and intercepted a M-60 tank that was used as a target. Throughout...

The US Navy, working with system developer ScenPro Inc. of Richardson, TX, is using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology from Texas Instruments to more efficiently track the status and location of hundreds of wounded soldiers and airmen, prisoners of war, refugees and others arriving for treatment at Fleet Hospital...

The Northrop Grumman Corp., Boeing and Raytheon Multi-sensor Command and Control Aircraft (MC2A) team has received a pre-system development and demonstration contract, with a total value of $215 M for weapon system integration (WSI) of the US Air Force's new E-10A aircraft. "The next generation of Air Force airborne...

COMPONENTS Reflective SPDT Switch The model SWN-218-2DR-STD options 204F, HPR80W, LIL is a high power (80 W) cold switching SP2T solid-state switch that operates from 2 to 4 GHz (other frequencies available) with low insertion loss of less than 1.25 dB typical; SWR is 2.0, isolation is ³ 35...

INDUSTRY NEWS Dr. Bruno O. Weinschel , founder of Weinschel Engineering, died on May 6, 2003. He was 83 years old. He was a native of Stuttgart, Germany and received his Doctorate from the Engineering/Technical University in Munich. He moved to the United States in 1938 and after positions...

Test Solutions Product Catalog This 70-page catalog details the company's full line of antennas, sensors, probes, accessories and test equipment designed to provide customers the flexibility needed in today's market. Each product highlighted displays a description, performance graph, comparison graph and a photograph. A.R.A. Technologies, Beltsville, MD (301) 937-8888....

CD-ROM Catalog This CD-ROM catalog includes the company's latest technical developments, test reports and features. American Microwave Corp. manufactures solid-state RF and microwave frequency switches, variable analog and digital attenuators, switch matrixes and detector log video amplifiers (DLVA). American Microwave Corp., Frederick, MD (301) 662-4700. Circle No. 310 Product...

Time-domain Computer Analysis of Non-Linear Hybrid Systems Wenquan Sui CRC Press 396 pages; $99.95, £69.99 ISBN: 0-8493-1396-1 This book is a summary and review of research work on finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) co-simulation for hybrid electromagnetic systems. The numerical co-simulation methods that are described and used in various applications show...

The wireless LAN (WLAN) industry is experiencing tremendous growth, aided by lower pricing points and standardization of technology. Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) believes that this growth will continue to accelerate, as larger technology and telecommunications companies enter the WLAN industry, bringing deep financial pockets and millions of existing customers....

Vertical markets such as health care, government, services, transportation/communications/utilities, manufacturing and mining, and retail will offer a myriad of opportunities for the deployment of Bluetooth, according to In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm reports that these vertical markets will grow aggressively to over two million deployed Bluetooth nodes...