Articles by Microwave Journal

Industry News Radiall has bought New Haven, CT-based Applied Engineering Products Inc. (AEP). The newly acquired company ranks among the largest of the independent designers and manufacturers of the subminiature coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, used in high reliability radio and microwave frequency applications. Their products are sold primarily...

Harris Corp. announced that it has been awarded a $35 M contract modification by the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade the voice communications displays used by the nation’s air traffic controllers as part of the existing Voice Switching and Control System (VSCS) contract that the company was awarded in...

XTAR LLC announced that it has been awarded a contract with the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office (DTS-PO), Fairfax, VA, to provide X-band communications services to embassies and consulates in Africa and Asia. The five-year contract has an estimated maximum value of up to $137...

The Air Force announced that Lockheed Martin has been selected to continue development of the Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology, known as ISAT. The contract, valued at $19.5 M, is for the next phase of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) ISAT project, administrated by the Air...

A Northrop Grumman-developed system that provides joint coalition forces with a clear, continuous common operating picture of the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan has been honored as the “Best Program in Support of Coalition Operations.” The Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2)-Blue Force Tracking System and its...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced its intent to work with the developers of the wireless technology commonly known as ultra-wideband (UWB) to combine strengths of both technologies. This decision will allow Bluetooth technology to extend its long-term roadmap to meet the high speed demands of synchronizing and...

Chase card services announced that it is introducing “Blink,” a new faster, easier way to pay, using RFID chips and contactless payment systems. With the Chase Blink announcement, the North American contactless payment market-starting gun has sounded and the race to redefine cashless payments is on. Erik Michielson, ABI...

While SOHO/home WLAN equipment shipment volumes have increased strongly since Apple first launched its AirPort line of 802.11b-compliant consumer WLAN gear in 2000, prices have eroded sharply over the past several years, and few vendors are making much money in the market segment at present, reports In-stat. The SOHO/consumer...

The WiMedia Alliance and the MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group, or MBOA-SIG, recently announced the two groups’ merger. Although the entity will often be referred to as WiMedia-MBOA, the entity will operate officially as the WiMedia Alliance Inc. The merged group is designed to take advantage of the...

Digital Communication Over Fading Channels, Second Edition Marvin K. Simon and Mohamed-Slim Alouini Wiley-Interscience 934 pages; $195 ISBN: 0-471-64953-8 Like its predecessor, this second edition discusses in detail, coherent and non-coherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in...