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L-3 Electron Technologies Inc. (L-3 ETI) announced the introduction of its model 8923H dual-band 300 W 30 GHz/175 W 45 GHz Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier. Designed for military SATCOM uplink applications, the new TWT has a remarkably small footprint and weighs less than four pounds. “The model 8923H...

Crystek 's CVCO55FL-0200-0239 voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) operates from 200 to 239 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 to 4.5 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -123 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +9.0 dBm. The model CVCO55FL-0200-0239...

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New York - The escalating build-outs of 3.5G and 4G mobile networks will continue to propel the point-to-point microwave industry as radio shipments with higher capacities will become the norm, a new report from Visant Strategies finds. "Growth in PTP shipments is being driven by deployment and preparation for...

The Antenna Applications Symposium and its predecessor, the Air Force Antenna R&D Symposium, have for fifty years provided a unique forum for exchange of ideas and information about the practical aspects of antenna design, development, and use in systems. The Antenna Applications Symposium emphasizes antenna design and application to...

Filtronic PLC has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Defence Electronics business to Teledyne Ltd. , a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies., for £13.0 M (on a cash free debt free basis). The Defence Electronics business designs and manufactures customized radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave components and subsystems for...

Harris Stratex Networks has opened its newest office in Sydney, Australia. The company will supply operators with cost-effective wireless transport solutions to enable customers to transport high-speed, carrier-class Ethernet data, alongside traditional TDM traffic, to support network migration to next-generation IP services. Harris Stratex will also be able to...

TDK Corp. , a leading electronics company headquartered in Japan, and EPCOS AG , a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems headquartered in Germany, have signed a Business Combination Agreement (BCA). The purpose of the agreement is to combine EPCOS with TDK’s activities in the electronic components...

The “smart metering” that communicates electric, gas or water usage data over a network to the providing utility is making inroads in some markets, but a further evolution of these technologies into “Home Area Networks” (HAN) will allow utilities greater management efficiencies while providing customers with choices about their...

Microwave and millimeter-wave high power vacuum electron devices (VED) represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day incarnations couple modern...