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Royal Philips Electronics announced that it has sold approximately 887 million shares of common stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to long-term financial investors in Taiwan. Through these transactions, the company has implemented the first step of the multi-phased plan to facilitate an orderly exit from its shareholding...

As part of an in-theatre Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) program, QinetiQ has integrated a civil satellite communications system into a number of the UK MoD’s Joint Helicopter Force (JHC) assets. The requirement was to deliver beyond line of sight (BLOS) voice communications capabilities that allow deployed JHC assets to...

GroupUp.net, the free site that makes on-line group networking easy, has announced the posting of a new page: www.microwives.com . This GroupUp.net page has been created for Microwave industry professionals and their families and friends to make connections and share tips on travel and events related to industry trade...

As part of an in-theatre Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) program, QinetiQ has integrated a civil satellite communications system into a number of the UK MoD’s Joint Helicopter Force (JHC) assets. The requirement was to deliver beyond line of sight (BLOS) voice communications capabilities that allow deployed JHC assets to...

First Things First: RF to Light index for the week ended March 9, 2007. The RF to Light 100 index rose 1.9% to 2503, YTD +2%, regaining 1/3 of the previous 6% fall. NASDAQ up 0.8%. The RF semiconductor market segment took the lead with a 3% gain, up...

Components &bull Broadband SP5T Switch The model SWN-1170-5DR is a reflective broadband single-pole five-throw switch with integral TTL driver. This switch operates in a frequency range from 1 to 18 GHz with low insertion loss of 3.25 dB maximum, an isolation of 60 dB minimum and a VSWR of...

Spectrum Analyzer Trio Three new models have been added to the MS272xB series of handheld spectrum analyzers. The MS2724B offers continuous frequency coverage from 9 kHz to 20 GHz while the MS2721B and MS2723B cover frequencies up to 7.1 and 13 GHz, respectively. The MS2724B exhibits low phase noise...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF modules for telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems, has announced the release of two custom-designed millimeter-wave receiver modules for radiometer applications. Two downconverter models have been custom-designed to operate at K-band (20 to 40 GHz) and V-band (50...

RF Monolithics Inc. (RFMI) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aleier Inc. , has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with MACTEC Engineering and Consulting Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of MACTEC Inc., to offer integrated enterprise asset management (EAM) and engineered management systems (EMS) solutions with machine-to-machine (M2M) communications...

Presently, the trend in satellite communication is focusing on high frequencies with wider user bandwidths. Directional couplers are an integral part of onboard as well as ground applications, either for combining or splitting power. Planar directional couplers, using coupled microstrip lines, are commonly used for different coupling values.1 Couplers...