Articles by Microwave Journal Staff

Industry News Dielectric Communications , a division of SPX and a developer of broadcast antenna systems, announced that the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will present the company with a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award at an awards ceremony during the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in...

Microwave and Millimeter-wave Conversion Products MITEQ’s 515-page Microwave and Millimeter-wave Conversion Products Catalog features the company’s latest state-of-the-art mixers, image rejection mixers, modulators, multipliers and custom products. This detailed engineering reference manual features product specification sheets including typical test data, outline drawings, questions and answers, technical applications and notes....

High-power L-band Radar Amplifier The Aethercomm Model SSPA 1.2-1.4-200 is a high power, pulsed RF amplifier that is employed in military L-band radar systems and operates from 1200 to 1400 MHz. This PA was designed for L-band radars on fighter aircraft but can be employed in any system. The...

Monthly Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has released revenue numbers for September 2007 of $25.75 B (raw numbers not three-month moving average). The September numbers are up from $25.50 B in September of 2006 and represent 1.0% growth month-over-month versus 9.0% in August. January 2007 started...

Adaptive Radar Signal Processing Simon Haykin, Editor Wiley Interscience • 243 pages; $94.95 ISBN: 978-0-471-73582-3 This book focuses on two types of radar: Surveillance radar, the purpose of which is target detection in the presence of unwanted signals, interference and noise; and low tracking radar, which is complicated by...

NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. Missile Systems business and Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control, delivered the first two Non-Line-of-Sight-Launch System Container Launch Units to Army Evaluation Task Force soldiers in Fort Bliss, TX. The NLOS-LS CLU is the first Future Combat System (FCS) equipment to...

Northrop Grumman announced that its Guardian™ Counter-Man Portable Air Defense System (C-MANPADS) currently installed on nine wide-body aircraft flying commercial revenue service has achieved 12,000 on-aircraft operational hours. “The program and system are a continuing success,” said Robert Del Boca, sector vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s...

Lockheed Martin successfully conducted two Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary Rocket Phase II Product Qualification tests at White Sands Missile Range, NM. These “GPS2 jamming” tests demonstrated both GMLRS rocket performance while in a GPS jamming environment at long range, as well as the functionality of the...

With the award of $36.1 M, Raytheon Co. has won the majority share of US Air Force competitive contracts for Paveway™ II laser guided bomb components for fiscal year 2007. This is the third consecutive Air Force majority share award for Raytheon, setting a benchmark for affordability and performance...

Chinese vendors, led by Huawei Technologies and ZTE, have become more active in the RF power amplifier market with significant effect on the device market. “This is both an opportunity and a threat,” says ABI research director Lance Wilson. “The Chinese position in the RF power amplifier and device...