Articles by Microwave Journal

Microwave Components This Web site details the company’s wide array of broadband, microwave and wireless components. In addition to the product descriptions, downloadable data sheets are available for products including: attenuators up to 50 GHz with power handling to 300 W, DC blocks and bias tees for LMDS and...

The US Navy has approved Northrop Grumman Corp.’s AN/SLQ-32(V) Electronic Surveillance Enhancement (ESE) for low rate initial production. John Young, assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, gave the “go-ahead” after ESE met or exceeded all test objectives during its operational assessment. Under a $14.9...

Air traffic controllers in New York today are using the Federal Aviation Administration’s new system to manage oceanic air traffic. Designed and integrated by Lockheed Martin, the Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) system safely increases the capacity of international air routes and automates the manual tracking processes used...

Raytheon Co.’s latest netcentric enabled radar system, APG-79 AESA, has been awarded a significant multi-year contract worth $580 M by the Boeing Co. This five-year production contract for the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) APG-79 system successfully concludes negotiations for 190 radars from low rate initial production lot 3...

Researchers at the University of Essex are claiming a world record for the amount of computer data sent over a point-to-point wireless channel. The results achieved by the team from the department of electronic systems engineering are the equivalent of more than 162,000 phone calls or over 10,000 broadband...

The Focused Wave Technology Venture Group has obtained US Patent 6,914,588 issued July 5, 2005. The patent enables the manufacture of antennas with a smaller size than conventional types. FWT antenna technology offers many designs and operating frequencies to commercial as well as government users, with significant size and...

Tags and readers are often thought of as the “business end” of RFID. They are where the rubber meets the road: where data about tagged items is stored and collected. But in reality, the business end of RFID is deep inside the enterprise. The raw data is of little...

3G technology will make it easier for executives to work during their family vacations this summer, according to Novatel Wireless Inc., a provider of wireless broadband access solutions. Executives are increasingly adopting 3G technology for always on broadband connectivity worldwide, relinquishing the need to seek out Wi-Fi hot spots...

Introduction to WLLs: Application and Deployment for Fixed and Broadband Services Raj Pandya Arcadia Publishing 243 pages; $79.95 ISBN: 0-471-45132-0 The primary objective of this book is to provide a system level view of the technical, planning and deployment aspects of wireless local loop (WLL) systems. It also includes...

Enhanced Wireless Network Simulator Software This wireless network simulator (WNS) software enhances the functions of the MD8470A signaling tester — a base station simulator for mobile terminal application software development and verification. It establishes interactive operation between the MD8470A and a W-CDMA or GSM/GPRS mobile terminal and simplifies the...