Articles by Microwave Journal Staff

Product Catalog This 128-page catalog offers readers a complete listing of the company's product line. Included in these are RF inductors, power inductors, EMI/RFI suppressors, transformers and specialty products. The catalog also highlights several new products that are now available. API Delevan, East Aurora, NY (716) 652-3600. Circle No....

Print Product Catalog This catalog includes new products, expanded datasheets with more comprehensive information and measurement curves, application notes and a complete listing of its international sales rep network. Although Mimix published a comprehensive print catalog in 2001, accelerated product launches, additional testing and measurement data, and a quickly...

Wireless Local Loops - Theory and Applications Peter Stavroulakis, Editor John Wiley & Sons Inc. 289 pages; $110 ISBN: 0-471-49846-7 This book presents the theoretical aspects and various practical applications of a new medium of transmission called wireless local loops (WLL) that is making a major impact in the...

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Sam Bodman and National Federation of the Blind (NFB) president Marc Maurer announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the NFB will work together to test a prototype technology developed by NIST that provides the blind and visually impaired...

Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Integrated Systems sector has been awarded a $34.2 M contract by the US Air Force for the first phase of the B-2 radar Pathfinder program, a multi-year effort to design and integrate a new radar antenna on the B-2 stealth bomber. The total program value for...

Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) system, chosen by the US Air Force to protect its transport aircraft from the threat of heat-seeking missiles, has successfully completed live missile fire tests and has entered low rate initial production. "The LAIRCM system has passed another milestone on its...

Raytheon Co. and the US Navy successfully completed the second demonstration test flight (DT-1) of the Raytheon-produced Tactical Tomahawk cruise missile at the Naval Air Systems Command western test range complex in southern California. "The resounding success of DT-1 and the entire test flight program demonstrates that the US...

The Anglo-Italian joint venture company Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) has announced new contracts with respect to the provision of instrument landing systems (ILS) for the US Air Force, a Doppler weather radar for South Korea's Meteorological Administration and two Advanced Surface Movement Guidance Control Systems (A-SMGCS) for Italy's Ente...

The Fuerza Aerea Brasilia (FAB - the Brazilian Air Force) has awarded the European Aeronautic, Defence and Space (EADS) Co. Spanish arm - EADS-CASA - a contract covering the upgrading and modernisation of nine recently purchased ex-US Navy Lockheed Martin P-3A maritime patrol aircraft. Elsewhere, the company's Ulm, Germany-headquartered...

Russia's Ministry of Information and Communications (known by the local acronym MINSVIAZ) has issued Rohde & Schwarz (R & S) subsidiary BICK Mobilfunk with permanent certification for its ACCESSNET®-T terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) system. Previously, each TETRA network proposed for a Russian application has had to be tested and...