Passive Components

MtronPTI Introduces Stratum 3 OCXO Series

MtronPTI , a producer of frequency control and filter products, announced the XO5166 & XO5167 Series HCMOS output OCXO. This series offers full Stratum 3 compliance per GR-1244-CORE and hermeticity per MIL-STD-202, Method 112. The XO5166 & XO5167 Series has a wide frequency range of 10 to 53 MHz...
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Powerwave Introduces GSM-UMTS Same Band Combiners

Powerwave Technologies Inc. , a global source for end-to-end wireless solutions, introduced the latest offering in its growing line-up of coverage and capacity solutions for indoor and outdoor environments--a Same Band Combiner that offers both cost savings and time to market efficiencies for wireless operators. Designed to support 850...
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Company Profile: Anritsu

Company History Anritsu Company is the American subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of innovative communications solutions for more than 110 years. Anritsu is a global leader in the telecommunications, optical and wireless industries through its diverse product offerings ranging from test and measurement solutions to high-speed devices...
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Company Profile: MECA

Company History After many years as a Senior Projects Engineer at ITT Federal Laboratories in Nutley, NJ; Ronald R. Davo founded Microwave Electronic Components of America in July of 1961. MECA’s main business focus through the 1960s and early 1970s was primarily components used in radar systems for the...
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Company Profile: Microwave Journal

Company History Microwave Journal published its first issue in July of 1958. Founder and Publisher William Bazzy declared that “Our objective is simply to offer a forum to the industry and be the means of communication for the people in this segment of the electronic field.” Led by Editor...
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Company Profile: Narda Microwave

Narda Microwave: 55 years strong In February 1953, just a few months after The Saddlemen became Bill Haley and His Comets, four design engineers armed with a $20,000 engineering services contract formed Nassau Research & Development Associates. From these inauspicious beginnings in the back of a machine shop in...
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Company Profile: Rohde & Schwarz

Company History As early as 1932, Dr. Lothar Rohde and Dr. Hermann Schwarz, the company’s founders, developed their first measuring instrument, an interference wavemeter. In 1933, they set up shop under the name ‘Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. L. Rohde und Dr. H. Schwarz’ in Munich (renamed Rohde & Schwarz in...
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Company Profile: Reactel, Incorporated

Company History The roots of Reactel, Incorporated began when founder Emanuel (Manny) Assurian was employed as an Engineer by suburban Washington, DC filter manufacturer I-tel in the mid 1960’s. Eventually, Manny was named President of CIR-Q-TEL (I-tel’s new name) and remained there for several years. In 1979, Manny decided...
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Company Profile: RFMD

Company History In 1991, William (Bill) J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal founded RF Micro Devices® in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their mission was to bring gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology to the burgeoning wireless communications semiconductor marketplace, also in its early stages of...
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Company Profile: Spectrum Microwave

Company History For more than 30 years, the heritage companies which comprise Spectrum Microwave have supplied its defense and commercial customers with innovative and sophisticated RF & Microwave components and assemblies for demanding applications. Spectrum Microwave originally evolved under the direction of Spectrum Control’s CEO Richard Southworth out of...
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