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Compact Antenna The HW Series 1/2-wave center-fed dipole antennas and 1/4-wave monopole antennas are now available with standard SMA connector terminations. HW Series antennas are ideal for applications requiring a compact, low-cost antenna solution. These antennas attach using an FCC-compliant RP-SMA connector or the newly available standard SMA connector....

Stealth Microwave introduces the SM7177-43, designed primarily for the European D-ENG market. The unit operates from 7.1 to 7.7 GHz with a P1dB of +43 dBm. Gain is 55 dB with a flatness of ±0.5 dB across the band. Standard features include Forward and Reflected Power detection, TTL On/Off,...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Melville, New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , received a $2.5 M contract from a major domestic OEM to supply high-power amplifiers. These amplifiers are key components in a complex Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system used to interrogate aircraft to determine their...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced that it has commenced pre-production shipments of high-performance gallium nitride (GaN)-based CATV hybrid amplifiers to a major US-based cable television (CATV) equipment provider. Operators of hybrid fiber...

Nearly two billion Bluetooth chipsets are forecast to ship in 2014 alone, according to new market data released by ABI Research. More than half will be found in wireless handsets. In the same year, almost 1.5 billion Wi-Fi chipsets are expected to ship and again, more than one third...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc. , has received orders totaling $1.6 M for ruggedized, solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA). These orders reflect the increasing demand for rugged Ku-band fly-away terminals for military communications. Fred Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of...

Cambridge Consultants has launched Dual-domain Uplink Equalizer for LTE (DUEL), a breakthrough technology that significantly improves LTE uplink performance when compared to MMSE, the “text-book” receiver design. DUEL, designed as an algorithmic and DSP extension to LTE base station receiver designs, requires no changes to handsets. LTE technology (Long...