Articles by Microwave Journal Staff

Military Brochure The revised military brochure from AR Modular RF features a family of booster amplifiers for tactical military radios that covers 30 to 512 MHz and 12 to 40 W. The family features several versions including manpack or vehicular mounted, manual or automatic band switching and a SINCGARS...

Short Form Catalog This 12-page, full-color short form catalog features the company’s complete range of products that are ideal for test and measurement, SATCOM, telecom, commercial and military applications. Products include: programmable attenuators, variable step attenuators, terminations, loads, DC blocks, bias tees and RF detectors. In addition, the catalog...

Autonomous Software-defined Radio Receivers for Deep Space Applications Jon Hamkins and Martin K. Simon, Eds. John Wiley & Sons Inc. • 457 pages; $150 ISBN: 978-0-470-08212-6 The purpose of this book is the development of techniques to autonomously configure an all-digital software-defined radio (SDR) receiver for whatever type of...

Millimeter-wave Receivers These custom-designed millimeter-wave receiver modules are designed for radiometer applications. Two downconverter models have been custom-designed to operate at K-band (20 to 40 GHz) and V-band (50 to 75 GHz). Gain calibration is accomplished using an internal K- or V-band noise source, a noise injection coupler and...

S.M. Shajedul Hasan of Virginia Tech has won the first William Bazzy Fellowship. Hasan received his BS degree from Bangladesh University in 2002 and his MS degree from the University of Tennessee in 2005. He is currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Steven Ellingson. His dissertation...

LINC2 Filter Synthesis Software LINC2 Filter Pro version 1.14 adds a new line of space-efficient RF and microwave filters to its filter design and synthesis software. Compact, space-saving interdigital filters can now be designed in microstrip or stripline materials using LINC2 Filter Pro. These and other microstrip and stripline...

A combined US Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed an on-orbit reconfiguration of the five-satellite Milstar constellation to maximize the system’s capabilities to provide secure, reliable and robust communications to US and Allied Forces around the globe. Orbiting the earth at over 22,000 miles in space, the Milstar...

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Co. a $304 M contract to develop advanced tracking and discrimination capabilities for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) forward-based AN/TPY-2- radar. Under the contract, Raytheon is responsible for the development and test of radar software, various engineering tasks, maintenance and support,...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a $218 M Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the US Marine Corps for its next generation, JTRS-approved Falcon® III Tactical radios. Under the contract, the company received two orders totaling $158 M. Harris was chosen...

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, has established a Reference Design Centre (RDC) with the aim of facilitating deployment and adoption of RFID technology. Based near Graz, Austria, the RDC improves the performance and reliability of existing RFID systems by thoroughly testing applications under real life...