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International Report New EW for UK SF Helicopters The UK's Ministry of Defence is close to procuring a combined radar and laser warning system from Israeli contractor Elisra Electronics for use aboard the Royal Air Force's eight Chinook Mk 3 Special Forces (SF) support helicopters. The Mk 3 Chinook...

The Commercial Market Ultra-wideband Receives Limited OK from FCC Just when you thought you had figured out the difference between Bluetooth and CDCP, and you have sorted out the number of growing wireless LAN and Personnel Area Network protocols, the FCC has gone out and approved yet another way...

The Book End The Cellular Radio Handbook Reference for Cellular System Operation, Fourth Edition Neil J. Boucher John Wiley & Sons Inc. 749 pages; $135 ISBN: 0-471-38725-8 Cellular radio is the fastest growing area of telecommunications. This book is addressed to professionals and students interested in cellular communications principles,...

Product Features A Modern Militarized Rubidium Frequency Standard Datum Inc. Beverly, MA The last decade has seen widespread use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic equipment in military applications, allowing modern technology to be utilized quickly and less expensively. For the most part, this process has been successful provided that the...

Product Feature An EM Simulator for MEMS and Real Life MMICs MEM Research Spoltore, Pescara, Italy Generally speaking, there are two large families of commercially available electromagnetic (EM) solvers. The first one is a general-purpose set, covering the analysis of arbitrarily shaped structures and using finite elements or differences,...

Cover Feature Welcome to the 2002 International Microwave Symposium Donn Harvey General Chairman, 2002 International Microwave Symposium Welcome to Seattle, Washington for the 2002 International Microwave Symposium, the 50th anniversary of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. This marks the first year the Symposium is held in the beautiful...

Product Feature Low Cost Phased Array Antennas for BWA Applications e-tenna Corp. Laurel, MD Today, most broadband wireless access (BWA) customer premise equipment (CPE) use fixed-beam antennas. These are generally either reflector (dish), or flat-panel array antennas. These antennas have generally been selected based on value - meeting a...

Product Feature A Low Loss PTFE-based Bond Ply Material for Multi-layer PCB Applications Taconic Advanced Dielectric Division Petersburgh, NY Growing needs are developing for pure package high performance, low loss laminate and prepreg materials for microwave telecommunications and high speed digital printed circuit board (PCB) applications. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), perhaps...

Product Feature An Eight-channel YIG-tuned Frequency Synthesizer Array Micro Lambda Wireless Inc. Fremont, CA Low phase noise is a staple of modern communication systems signal sources. For that reason system designers prefer yttrium iron garnet (YIG)-based sources. In addition, many of today's communications systems are required to operate at...

Product Feature Laser-activateable Plastics and Laser Devices that Deliver Flexible 3D MID Technology LPKF Laser & Electronics Garbsen, Germany In an increasingly competitive market those companies carrying out electronic production, especially small- to medium-sized enterprises, require fast, efficient and cost-effective solutions to aid the prototyping and production process. What...