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In the design of high frequency power amplifiers, one of the parameters is the stability of the active device. The stability of the active device is determined by the Rollet stability factor K. If K > 1, then the active device is unconditionally stable and the design of the...

COMPONENTS Surface-mount Mini-balun This miniaturized version of the Xinger-brand surface-mount balun's specifications include an insertion loss of 0.35 dB max, frequency of 2.4 GHz, 600 MHz bandwidth and power handling of 22 W CW. Ideal applications are 802.11b/g access points, embedded WLAN platforms, micro and pico cell PA matching...

INDUSTRY NEWS MICRO-COAX announced that the company has acquired the assets of the Coaxitube Division of Precision Tube Co. Coaxitube's manufacturing operation will be consolidated into MICRO-COAX's ISO 9002-certified facility in Pottstown, PA. The acquisition reunites the co-inventors of semi-rigid cable and creates a company with more than 80...

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Sam Bodman and National Federation of the Blind (NFB) president Marc Maurer announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the NFB will work together to test a prototype technology developed by NIST that provides the blind and visually impaired...

Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Integrated Systems sector has been awarded a $34.2 M contract by the US Air Force for the first phase of the B-2 radar Pathfinder program, a multi-year effort to design and integrate a new radar antenna on the B-2 stealth bomber. The total program value for...

Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) system, chosen by the US Air Force to protect its transport aircraft from the threat of heat-seeking missiles, has successfully completed live missile fire tests and has entered low rate initial production. "The LAIRCM system has passed another milestone on its...

Raytheon Co. and the US Navy successfully completed the second demonstration test flight (DT-1) of the Raytheon-produced Tactical Tomahawk cruise missile at the Naval Air Systems Command western test range complex in southern California. "The resounding success of DT-1 and the entire test flight program demonstrates that the US...

The Anglo-Italian joint venture company Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) has announced new contracts with respect to the provision of instrument landing systems (ILS) for the US Air Force, a Doppler weather radar for South Korea's Meteorological Administration and two Advanced Surface Movement Guidance Control Systems (A-SMGCS) for Italy's Ente...

The Fuerza Aerea Brasilia (FAB - the Brazilian Air Force) has awarded the European Aeronautic, Defence and Space (EADS) Co. Spanish arm - EADS-CASA - a contract covering the upgrading and modernisation of nine recently purchased ex-US Navy Lockheed Martin P-3A maritime patrol aircraft. Elsewhere, the company's Ulm, Germany-headquartered...

Russia's Ministry of Information and Communications (known by the local acronym MINSVIAZ) has issued Rohde & Schwarz (R & S) subsidiary BICK Mobilfunk with permanent certification for its ACCESSNET®-T terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) system. Previously, each TETRA network proposed for a Russian application has had to be tested and...