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Sirenza Microdevices to Acquire Micro Linear Corp.

Sirenza Microdevices Inc. , a designer and supplier of high performance radio frequency (RF) components for communications equipment manufacturers, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Micro Linear Corp. , headquartered in San Jose, CA. Under the terms of the agreement, 0.365 of a Sirenza share...
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Alcatel Number One for Microwave Radio Sales

According to Sky Light Research, Alcatel led in market revenue for point-to-point microwave radio sales in North America for the first quarter of 2006 with 33 percent of revenue in the region. This development comes as the company's strong momentum in delivering mission critical microwave communications networks continues with...
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Keithley and TestMart Announce Partnership

Keithley Instruments Inc. , a provider of solutions for emerging measurement needs, announced a new partnership agreement with TestMart Inc. , an operator and service provider for the IT, network maintenance, and test and measurement industries. The agreement authorizes TestMart to present a catalog of Keithley’s precision test and...
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ITT Wins US Army Communications Contract

ITT Corp. announced that it has been awarded the Operations, Maintenance and Supply-Europe contract by the US Army 's Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center-West (ITEC4-W), based in Fort Huachuca, AZ. The contract has an 11-month base period and four one-year option periods with a total potential value...
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Factory of the Future in UK

Yorkshire Forward has invested £6.50 M to build a 'Factory of the Future', as part of the second phase of development of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, located at the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Waverley, Rotherham, UK. On completion the facility will be owned by...
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Major Expansion for Link Microtek

Following a major upsurge in demand for the company's range of in-house manufactured waveguide products, Link Microtek has expanded both the floor space and the workforce at its waveguide manufacturing facility in Basingstoke, UK, by 50 percent. Booming waveguide sales in the commercial communications and military sectors over recent...
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Ask Harlan, August 14, 2006

Harlan Howe has 34 years experience as a microwave design engineer and fifteen as publisher and editor of Microwave Journal ® , and is an IEEE Fellow and past president of MTT-S. He's here to answer your questions on RF and Microwave engineering.
Published August 14, 2006 From: Ky-Hien Do Dear Harlan, How do you build a coaxial balun? Dear Ky-Hien, In its simplest form a coaxial balun can be made from two quarter-wave sections of coaxial line. The unbalanced input is to one line. The outer conductors at this end are...
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