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IWCE, the International Wireless Communications Expo, has announced dates for its 2014 event. IWCE 2014 will take place March 26–27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall 3. Conference sessions begin Monday, March 24 and run through Friday, March 28.

Amphenol Industrial Global Operations, a global leader in interconnect systems, now offers a web-based tool that simplifies online part selection and configuration of its most popular connectors. This new tool allows users to download 3D CAD models or PDFs of the connectors that they have created using this new system.

Microwave Marketing and Linwave Technology have jointly moved into Marlin Building by Karl McCartney, Member of Parliament for Lincoln, from 3 sites in the local Doddington Rd area. Mr McCartney took time to meet staff and customers during tour of the facility and product presentations.

Res-Net Microwave Inc., a manufacturer of high frequency and high power passive components has appointed Cain-Forlaw Co. as its sales representative in: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, W. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the online availability of videos of the presentations and Q&A sessions with the leading innovators and suppliers of RF, Wireless & Energy Technologies that the company hosted at its booth at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2012 in Montréal.

Pico Technology has expanded the PicoScope 3000 Series of high-performance oscilloscopes to include six new 4-channel models that offer a maximum sampling rate of 1 GS/s, a range of input bandwidths from 60 to 200 MHz, and buffer memory depths from 4 to 128 M samples.

QinetiQ is working with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to establish a new Unmanned Air Systems Capability Development Centre (UASCDC) to support the rapid development of unmanned air systems (UAS) programmes from concept to deployment.

Antenova Ltd. has released a LTE Antenna Reference Design for Smartphones which covers the global LTE bands. The company’s extremely wideband and efficient antenna design is claimed to overcome the difficulty of covering all the LTE frequency bands without the use of switches or tunable active components, resulting in a lower cost LTE MIMO antenna system for smartphones.

The BAE Systems Falcon Tactical Communications System has successfully completed systems field trials following weeks of extensive testing by the UK Ministry of Defence.

LeCroy Corp. announced a new WaveLink differential probe product line – the Dxx30 Series – with models available at 8, 10 and 13 GHz. These probes offer high input dynamic range – 3.5Vpk-pk – and large offset range - ±4V. With their combination of high bandwidth and voltage range, they are ideal for measuring high-speed DDR signals, such as DDR3, DDR4, and LPDDR3. The probes are available as modular components, or as complete probe systems (-PS part numbers) for ordering convenience.