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AR Web Demonstrations Visit this web site to watch AR specialists demonstrate some of the most innovative products and systems, and review important industry information. Demonstrations include: TGAR: Automotive Transient Generator System Overview and Demonstration; AR’s 8 to 20 GHz Solid State Amplifier Series; AR’s Field Monitoring Equipment; a...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that ST Microelectronics has selected Agilent's physical layer sink test solution to test its devices according to the MIPI D-PHY standard. This test setup provides the industry's first and complete automated physical layer receiver and transmitter tests, and also speeds up and simplifies test. Agilent's...

Radio Waves Inc. is celebrating its 25 th anniversary. The company has been designing and manufacturing high quality microwave antennas for 25 years and proudly building these antennas in Billerica, MA. When asked about his company’s 25 th anniversary, Andy Singer, president of Radio Waves, said, “It is the...

This series looks at the past five decades of our industry as described in this magazine. In this third installment of our six-part series, we focus on the 1970s, the decade of Watergate, a gas crisis, Americans held hostage in Iran... ah, yes, good times. At least we had...

Last June I spent a week and a half in Europe visiting Sweden, England and Italy. Bill Bazzy and I started the trip together; however, except for two days in Sweden and a day in Rome we went our separate ways. Sweden In Sweden I spent a good deal...

Tracing from Maxwell, through World War II to the communications boom and beyond, this report provides an insight into Europe’s historical role and the part it continues to play in the development of the global microwave industry. When Ted Saad and Bill Bazzy took their “Flight into the European...

The digitally-controlled attenuator (DCA) is a fundamental element of any system that combines microwave components and embedded digital control in its architecture. It consists of a bank of fixed attenuator pads, each of which can be switched in or out to adaptively select the optimum signal level for a...

Over the last few months I've had conversations with authors and reviewers which reveal that some elements of our editorial policy would be well put down in writing for all of us to consider. With a clearer picture for ourselves, we can better project encouragement to colleagues when we...

For those who want a change from technical meetings occupied with graduate student excercises and slides full of equations, there is the Allerton Antenna Applications Syposium. This is a brief report on the most recent, held September 20-22, 1978 at Robert Allerton park, about 25 miles west of Champaign-Urbana,...

With its Bridging Gaps theme, the 11th European Microwave Week couldn’t be held in a more suitable city than Amsterdam. Known as the ‘Venice of the North’, the canals that give it that name are spanned by 1281 bridges. They range from the famous Magere Brug (Skinny Bridge; see...