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PROCESSING EQUIPMENT Automatic Cutting and Stripping Machine The model PS 9500 RS automatic cut-and-strip machine is designed to enhance rotary stripping flexibility to the processing system, ensuring quality stripping results on all types of wire and cable (including coaxial cable). The benchtop unit processes cable from 7 mm up...

News From Washington SINCGARS Radios to Retain Dominance According to a recent analysis conducted by Teal Group Corp., the well-established Single-channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) will retain its dominance over many of the proposed new digital radios into the next decade. An estimated 300,000 radios valued at...

International Report Northrop Grumman Enters Bid for ASTOR The recent Battlefield Systems International ’98 trade exhibition and conference has provided the first clear details of a last-minute bid into the UK’s Airborne Standoff Radar (ASTOR) programme made by a consortium led by US contractor Northrop Grumman. The team is...

The Commercial Market US Utility Revenue Metering Markets Forecast to Reach $3.1 B According to a recent Business Communications Company Inc. study, "RE-085, Metering for Utilities: Riding the Wave of Deregulation," the total market for utility metering equipment, which was valued at $2.4 B in 1997, is expected to...

The Book End Antenna Theory and Design Warren L. Stutzman and Gary A. Thiele John Wiley & Sons Inc. 648 pages; $95.95 Major changes in antenna applications have occurred since this book was first published in 1981. This second edition has been appropriately updated to encompass these new applications,...

Gaussian Noise Calibration Standards Techtrol Cyclonetics Inc., Advanced Noise Technologies Division New Cumberland, PA Measurement of AM and PM noise relating to a carrier signal can be difficult to achieve accurately and consistently. Even when the utmost care is taken in preparing to make a noise measurement and all...

A Tunable, Dielectric-loaded Waveguide Filter K&L Microwave Inc. Salisbury, MD The personal communications service and cellular markets have placed high demands on filter manufacturers, including the need for low insertion loss with very high selectivity while maintaining 3 dB bandwidths of less than one percent. Fixed-frequency filters have been...

A Digital Phase Detection Subsystem Signal Technology Corp., Olektron Operation Beverly, MA The model IFS-9830 digital phase detection subsystem (DPDS) is a single-channel (one phase comparison) assembly used for high speed, high accuracy phase and amplitude measurements of an IF signal pair. The assembly measures the absolute phase difference...

The 1998 MTTS-S IMS: Another Record-breaking Event Frank Bashore Microwave Journal Staff The 1998 MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and Exhibition was held June 7 through 12 in Baltimore and managed to break the attendance record set only two years ago in San Francisco. The week-long conference attracted 10,550...

The Current State of the Art in Coplanar MMICs Thomas Sporkmann Institut für Mobil- and Satellitenfunktechnik Kamp-Lintfort, Germany In part one of this article (published in the July issue of Microwave Journal), the evolution of coplanar line techniques over the last 30 years was presented and alternatives for designing...