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, a conference that brings together engineers working on high-frequency analog
and high-speed digital designs, is pleased to announce
Tom Sikina, Principal
Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Co. as a keynote speaker in the
EDI CON USA Plenary Session
that will be held on Tuesday, September 20 at 4:30 PM. As a renowned expert with
more than 35 years of experience in a wide range of antenna design and development,
Tom Sikina will take the EDI CON USA stage to discuss, "Innovation in Phased Arrays:
Past, Present, and Future." Sikina will trace "
Triad RF Systems, founded in 2010, designs and manufactures high-performance,
high-power RF and microwave amplifiers operating at frequencies from 10 MHz to 20
GHz. The TTRM1104 is a
bi-directional amplifier designed for
UAV video, data link, and C2 applications. It has a selectable gain control to vary
the amp output based on link distance, and can also be placed in bypass mode when
the BDA is not required. An analog RSSI output is also included.
 "Practichem, the Raleigh-based maker of browser
controlled scientific instruments, today announced a new Tesla® Model 3 for each
employee. 'Our vision shares similarities with Tesla Motors; both companies positively
impact humanity with real change,' said Nick DeMarco, founder and CEO. 'People driven
to solve big issues share core values. Many of our employees have marveled at Tesla's
approach. Their compelling all-electric vehicles drive
..."
 Founded
in 1999, Empower RF Systems is a global leader in
power amplifier
solutions that are critical to defense, commercial, and industrial market applications.
With our origins in the design of  broadband and band-specific solid state power
amplifiers, Empower continues to advance the science of RF power amplification to
produce rugged, power efficient, and cost-effective solutions in the industry. It
is our priority to design and deliver high quality, innovative products which solve
customer systems and business requirements
...
 "A handheld,
shape-sifting computer could pave the way for a new generation
of multi-functional devices its developers have claimed. Cubimorph, created by engineers
at Bristol University, in collaboration with academics at the Universities of Purdue,
Lancaster and Sussex, holds touchscreens on each of its six module faces and uses
a hinge-mounted turntable mechanism to self-reconfigure in the user's hand. It can
for instance, instantly transform itself from a phone into a games console. Proof
of concept prototype of
..."
"Nokia has announced plans that will see the Nokia brand return to the
on a global basis. Under a strategic agreement covering branding rights and intellectual
property licensing, Nokia Technologies will grant HMD global Oy (HMD), a newly founded
company based in Finland, an exclusive global license to create Nokia-branded
mobile phones and tablets for the next ten years. Under the agreement, Nokia Technologies
will receive royalty payments from HMD for sales of Nokia-branded mobile products,
covering "
"Designing with Enhanced Load Pull Measurements
for Base Station Power Amplifiers" is a new application note that describes
how to use the advanced load-pull features in NI AWR Design Environment™ to design
matching networks and associated circuitry directly from measured load-pull data.
Load pull has been used for decades in RF circuit design flows, especially for high-power
applications such as base station PAs. Recent advances in data file formats by load-pull
measurement system vendors have significantly expanded the usefulness
 Here are two more additions to the growing
collection of radio service data sheets for vintage radio sets. Most people will
have no need for them, but for the few who have one of these old sets and want to
restore or service it, this information can means the difference between owning
a non-working conversation piece or a functional piece of America's history. These
are for the
Stromberg-Carlson No. 29, 9-Tube Superheterodyne Receiver and
the
Majestic Models Fairfax and Sheffield 8-Tube Superheterodynes.
Anatech Electronics,
a manufacturer of RF and microwave filters, has published its . As always, it includes
both company news and some tidbits about relevant industry happenings. This month,
 Sam Benzacar discusses the increasing challenge
that interference is to military systems, how a new record has been set for spectral
efficiency using a 256-QAM system, IoT being a prime target for hackers, and more.
Anatech's business is to make certain that system and circuit designers have
 Many great new RF-type magazine articles that
have appeared in the trade magazines in the last couple weeks. Tom Perkins' article
on "misused" terminology hits on some key peeves for some people
(including me); however, there is still some disagreement
over the technical difference between a diplexer and a duplexer. Also, Chris DeMartino
implies (according to my inference) that the UHF connector
is not so commonly used anymore - and that is probably so for commercial installations
- but amateur radio operators still use the UHF connector
...
•
What's in a Name? Clarifying Misused RF/Microwave
Terminology, by Tom Perkins
•
What Are the Differences Between Coaxial
Connectors?, Part 1, by Chris DeMartino
•
LTE and Wi-Fi Coexistence or Convergence?, by
James Kimery, Erik Luther, Dr. Achim Nahler
<more>
, the innovative leader in modular system design, and Peregrine Semiconductor,
founder of RF SOI and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announce their collaboration
and the addition of Peregrine's RF products to X-Microwave's online simulation tool
and hardware prototyping system. X-Microwave's building-block system simplifies
the modular design process and enables RF engineers to easily simulate and prototype
RF and microwave circuits. To kick off this relationship,
16 Peregrine products are being added to the X-Microwave system
as drop-in X-MWblock™ components
 "Last September,
SpoonRocket was running out of money. Founders of the Berkeley, Calif.,
meal-delivery company had initially sold investors on aggressive expansion plans
and the promises of a high-growth business. By the time it completed a planned rollout
to San Diego and Seattle early last year, the funding environment had changed.
Venture capitalists had begun to prioritize
profit over growth. After just a few months, SpoonRocket retreated from its new
markets and focused on improving
..."
 When
metal-encased vacuum tubes came on the electronics scene in the
1930s, they were billed as the innovation that was going to radically change the
radio world. The built-in Faraday shield properties of the tubes did in fact stop
the effects of cross-coupling between adjacent tubes and permit more densely packed
circuits, but they also caused some other problems as well. Capacitance between
tube elements and the shield caused electron flow control issues and affected operational
frequency. Packing tubes closer together also meant the rat's nest of resistors,
capacitors, inductors, and wires on the underside
...
 "Engineers at North Carolina State University
have applied a new technology called
RF-only logic to create passive RFID tags
that are 25 percent smaller than today's. And a smaller tag means a cheaper tag.
The space savings comes from eliminating a circuit usually considered crucial to
the chip's operation—the rectifier. Passive RFID tags, the most common ones, are
powered by an RF signal provided by the tag reader when it's nearby. The RFID's
rectifier takes the AC radio signal
..."
 "Diamonds may soon be the semiconductor industry's
'best friend.' Startup Akhan Semiconductor Inc. plans to make the promise of diamonds
come true by licensing the
diamond semiconductor process from the U.S. Energy Department's
Argonne National Laboratory. Diamond semiconductors have been known to be faster,
consume less power, be thinner and lighter weight that silicon, but Akhan Semiconductor
is the first vendor with its foot-in-the-door of actually realizing its capabilities.
Since before 2000, Argonne National Lab has been experimenting with diamond chemical
vapor
..."
 The ARRL (American
Radio Relay League) might be considered as one of the first app developers.
At 50¢ and $1 per app, the price was in-line with one of today's typical not-for-free
Apple or Android app. A user willing to shell out $4 for all six had at his fingertips
calculators and reference tables for capacitive and inductive
reactance, resonant frequency, gain and power, conductor amperage, transformer turns
ratio, resistor, capacitor, and inductor series and parallel combination, and other
values. These six apps were comprised of cardboard, plastic, and a metal eyelet
...
 "Researchers from the National University
of Singapore (NUS) have come up with a technique to enhance the photoluminescence
efficiency of tungsten diselenide, a 2D semiconductor. According to them, the discovery
could light the path for the application of such semiconductors in advanced optoelectronic
and photonic devices. Tungsten diselenide is a single-molecule-thick semiconductor
that is part of an emerging class of materials called transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDCs), which have the ability to convert light to electricity
..."
P1dB, an RF and microwave component supplier, releases a new series of test cables
that are phase stable under continuous flexure. These new test cables are built
using P1dB's new
195TM coaxial cable, which has been designed
and tested to be phase stable under 50,000 flexures. The P1dB test cables are also
constructed using specialized stainless steel connectors that are designed for high
retention and stability under more than 5,000 mating cycles. The new RF test cables
are further enhanced using
 "Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your
office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are
all usually oblivious. A physicist would probably describe what is happening in
terms of the
particle nature of light. An atom or molecule in the fluorescent
tube that is in an excited state spontaneously decays to a lower energy state, releasing
a particle called a photon. When the photon enters your eye, something similar happens
but in reverse. The photon is absorbed by a molecule in the retina and its energy
kicks that molecule into an
..."
 When someone with the first name of "True"
writes an article about
transmission line feeds for short-wave antennas, you should probably
take note. This very topic has been covered in detail many times since the use of
impedance-matched transmission lines have been in use (more than a century), but
since there are always people new to the concept, it is good to keep introducing
the topic on a regular basis. Even in this era of prefabricated everything, it still
often comes down to winding coils and adjusting cable lengths to get optimal impedance
matches between transceivers
...
Empower RF Systems is once again conducting live demonstrations
of broadband, high power amplifiers with compelling performance, industry leading
small size, IOT interface, and user selectable functionality that dares to challenge
legacy products offered in the market. Next appearing at IMS 2016 at the Moscone
Center in San Francisco, we will be showcasing a variety of RF modules along with
our 1 to 3 GHz, 1 kW HPA in a 5U chassis. This is an extraordinary design which
includes an integrated (internal) dual directional coupler and instrument
 "Pods will hold
naval drones on the sea bed for years
at a time. If a threat emerges, pods are released remotely and float to the surface.
Drones then unfurl their wings and take flight. They could spend months on the seabed,
hibernating in special pods before emerging and flying into battle. U.S. defense
chiefs have revealed radical plans for 'pods' to hold naval drones on the sea bed
for years at a time. If a threat emerged nearby, the pods are simply released remotely,
and float to the surface to open and unleash the drone within
..."
 "A team of researchers led by MIT postdoc
Cui-Zu Chang has achieved the first
zero-resistance edge state in a circuit. Superconductors have
also achieved zero resistance, but they are not spin-polarized, so they can only
transfer electrical information, but not spin information. Chang's innovation exhibits
the quantum anomalous Hall effect, a property that allows it to transfer information.
This breakthrough was achieved using extremely thin materials called topological
insulators (TIs). These materials allow electrons
...
today announced the Gold Sponsors for its next event taking place September
20-22 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. These sponsors will be highlighted
throughout the EDI CON USA 2016 conference and exhibition, which is specifically
organized for engineers working on high-frequency analog and high-speed digital
designs. This year's Gold Sponsors for EDI CON USA include Computer Simulation Technology
AG (CST) and Mini-Circuits. They join Host Sponsor Keysight Technologies, Diamond
Sponsor R&S, and Corporate Sponsor NI/AWR as leading
Notable Tech Quote: Clarke's 1st Law
 "When a distinguished but elderly scientist
states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states
that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke,
Clarke's 1st Law
 "The
R&S TS8980 RF conformance test system
from Rohde & Schwarz has achieved the world's first validation for both LTE-Advanced
uplink carrier aggregation (UL CA) and LTE-Advanced Pro uplink 64QAM (UL 64QAM).
RF conformance is a critical part of device certification as specified by the Global
Certification Forum GCF. Mobile manufacturers that use the most advanced chipset
solutions will now be able to certify their devices in line with GCF requirements
for UL CA and UL 64QAM. With the validation of LTE-Advanced Pro uplink 64QAM
..."
 Dr. Martin "Marty" Cooper, who appears in
the iconic 1973 photo showing him making the world's first walk-around call on a
cell phone in New York City, will be a keynote speaker at this year's International
Microwave Symposium (IMS) show. His speech, to be delivered on Monday, 23 from 5:30-7:00
pm, is titled "The Birth and Death of the Cell Phone." It's hard to believe
IMS 2016 festivities begin this
coming Sunday!
 "The International Electrotechnical Commission
(IEC) has released
IEC 61000-1-2:2016. This standard deals with 'Electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC) – Part 1-2: General – Methodology
for the achievement of functional safety of electrical and electronic systems including
equipment with regard to electromagnetic phenomena.' The first edition can now be
purchased on the IEC webstore
..."
 "U.S. Air Force researchers are asking industry
for new anti-tamper technologies to help safeguard U.S. military weapon systems
from exploitation, reverse engineering, technology theft, and countermeasures. Officials
of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio, issued a broad agency announcement Wednesday for the AFLCMC/XZZ Anti-Tamper
program. Military leaders need
anti-tamper technology to prevent U.S. military secrets from falling
into enemy hands from
..."
 If you have ever heard the audible hum emitted
by a power supply transformer, then you are familiar with at least one of the manifestations
of
magnetostrictive materials. I thought maybe shape memory metals
('muscle wire') would be considered magnetostrictive, but research shows they are
classified separately because their shape change is attributed primarily to heating
rather than magnetization. I also thought the old 'reeds' type receive decoders
for pre-1960s-era radio control systems might be magnetostrictive devices, but no
search turned up anything where the term was used. This article and its two succeeding
articles discuss magnetostrictive filters at kilohertz IF frequencies. Part I
covers the fundamentals of magnetostrictivity while Part II
...
 "Worldwide
semiconductor capital spending is projected
to decline 2% in 2016, to $62.8B, according to Gartner, Inc. This is up from the
estimated 4.7% decline in Gartner's previous quarterly forecast. 'While the first
quarter 2016 forecast has improved from a projected decline of 4.7% in the previous
quarter's forecast, the 2% decline in the market for 2016 is still bleak,' said
David Christensen, senior research analyst at Gartner. 'Excess inventory and weak
demand for PCs, tablets, and mobile products
..."
 RF Cafe typically receives 8,000-10,000
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Innovative Power Products introduces their latest 90 degree coupler that operates
over the full 690 – 6000 MHz. band. The new Model
IPP-7118,
handles 50 watts CW and comes in a small SMD style package which is only 0.50 x
1.00 x 0.162 inches. The IPP-7118 will combine two signals up to
50 watts CW of total output power. This coupler has very good amplitude balance
across the whole band and insertion loss of < 0.80 dB. The VSWR is less than
1.40:1 and the coupler has greater than 15 dB of isolation
 "Technology to remove satellites from space
– and prevent the further build up of man-made space debris – is being investigated
by researchers at Strathclyde University. The team has been awarded some €116,700
of EU funding as part of the two-year TeSeR (Technology for Self-Removal of Spacecraft)
programme that is being led by Airbus Defence and Space. According to NASA, over
500,000 pieces of space debris – made up of items including non-functioning spacecraft
and abandoned
..."
 "University of Patras
(MEAD and ECE departments) initiated the design and
development the first micro-satellite made in Greece:
UPsat. The project was completed with
the contribution, development and integration by the Greek based non-profit 'Libre
Space Foundation.' With the contribution of scientists, engineers and programmers,
UPSat is developed to participate in the QB50 international thermosphere research
mission
..."
 The January 2016 issue of Scientific
American ran an article by Clara Moskowitz titled "Elegant Equations" that
presented a few prints from "The Concinnitas Project"
which "...is a collection of ten aquatints produced from the contributions of ten
mathematicians and physicists in response to the prompt to transcribe their 'most
beautiful mathematical expression.'" My personal favorite is "Ampère's Law," by
Simon Donaldson, because it incorporates a simple line drawing along with the familiar
equations. It brings back memories of sitting in electromagnetics class at the University
of Vermont watching my seriously brilliant professor (no
kidding), Dr. Kenneth Golden, draw
...
NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave solutions
provider, revealed its latest product offering,
custom quick-turn
RF filters to meet the filtering demands for Military and Commercial applications.
NuWaves Engineering provides a large selection of options for customized quick-turn
filters including: frequency range of HF to 20 GHz, 3 dB bandwidths from 0.1% to
28%, and up to 50 W power handling. Available filter shapes include bandpass, lowpass,
highpass, and bandstop in order to provide one-of-a-kind solutions for
 "The world's oldest international organization
- the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - will mark the anniversary of its founding on May 17. The
ITU was established on that day in 1865. The theme of the 2016 World Telecommunication
and Information Society Day will be 'Information and Communication Technology (ICT) entrepreneurship
for social impact.' The ITU asserts that ICT entrepreneurs and startups, and small
to medium size enterprises 'have a particularly relevant role in ensuring economic
growth in a
..."
 Since 1961, MECA
Electronics has designed and manufactured an extensive line of
RF & microwave components
with industry leading performance including fixed attenuators, directional &
hybrid couplers, isolators & circulators, power dividers / combiners, RF loads,
DC
 blocks, bias tees, and adapters & cables.
MECA serves all areas of the RF & microwave industries such as in-building apps,
satellite communications, radar, radio communications, telemetry applications, mobile
radio, aviation & air traffic communications. Please visit MECA today to learn
how they can help you. Thanks.
 "Defense Secretary Ash Carter is elevating
and expanding the Pentagon's controversial technology sector outreach efforts—and
replacing its leaders—just one year after launching a Silicon Valley initiative
he calls crucial to keeping the U.S. military the best in the world. The
Defense Innovation Unit Experimental,
or DIUx, will also open a second office in Boston, where Carter has deep ties.
The secretary announced the changes on his fifth trip to Silicon Valley since taking
office, reflecting
..."
Anatech Electronics, Inc. offers the industry's largest portfolio of high-performance
standard and customized RF and microwave filters and filter-related products for
military, commercial, aerospace and defense, and industrial applications up to 40 GHz.
Anatech has introduced 3 new
ceramic duplexer designs: a 1880 MHz / 1960 MHz ceramic duplexer
, a 770.5 MHz / 715.5 MHz connectorized ceramic duplexer , and a 2535 MHz / 2655
MHz ceramic duplexer. Custom design are available
 "Checking email for work. Posting a photo
to Facebook. Texting the kids to come downstairs. Sending a quick snap to a friend.
People of all ages might use their smartphones in these ways during shared meals.
A new study from the University of Michigan explores how people use
mobile
phones during meals and how they feel about other people doing so. The researchers
surveyed 1,163 people between the ages of 8 and 88 in English-speaking countries
around the world. The survey reveals that people's attitudes about whether or not
you should ..."
Antenova Ltd, manufacturer of antennas and
RF antenna modules for M2M and the Internet
of Things, is announcing three brand new flexible printed circuit antennas to cover
the 3G, 4G and LTE bands. These brand new products are the company's first flexible
antennas for 4G and LTE. Together, this set of three antennas offers options for
all of the world's 4G and LTE bands, as well as a choice of antenna shape and size.
The antennas are as follows: Mitis, part number SRFL026, and Moseni, part number
SRFL029, have been
 "James E. Whedbee, N0ECN, of Gladstone, Missouri,
has petitioned the FCC to designate Morse (radiotelegraphy) Amateur Radio band segments
as "symbol communication" subbands. The FCC
has invited comments on his Petition for Rule Making (RM-11769), filed on May 2.
Arguing that retaining the current regime of “legacy” CW subbands has proven to
be grossly inefficient, Whedbee said he'd like to see
..."
 "A multi-institutional team of researchers
has discovered novel magnetic behavior on the surface of a specialized material
that holds promise for smaller, more efficient devices and other advanced technology.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and their collaborators used neutron scattering to reveal
magnetic moments in
hybrid topological insulator (TI) materials
at room temperature, hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the extreme sub-zero
cold where the
..."
 Vacuum tube products, once the domain of vintage
equipment collectors and restorers (like moi), are
increasingly becoming part of the mainstream retro electronics movement. Usually
the tube portion of a circuit is limited to the output amplifier or maybe a preamplifier
in an audio frequency application, where amplitude stability is not a major performance
factor. RF tuning and detector circuits use, thankfully, modern microelectronic
components in order to benefit from precision digital tuning and even computer interfaces.
Audiophiles have long held that the microphonic action of physical elements within
the
vacuum tube adds a warm quality to sound that cannot be replicated with solid
state devices ...
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for two Skyworks Low Noise Amplifiers
(LNAs) for Set Top Box (STB) applications. The
SKY65450-92LF and
SKY65452-92LF both provide high linearity (28.4 dBm OIP3)
and excellent gain (15 dB) over a wide bandwidth of 40 to 1000 MHz. Characterized
for 75 ohm environments, both devices are applicable to cable modems, home
gateways, PVRs, DVRs, and terrestrial/cable set top boxes. With noise figure of
2.9 dB, the SKY65450-92LF and SKY65452-92LF boast best-in-class NF, gain flatness,
linearity and low
 Each
month for many decades, a page or two in each issue of QST presented a feature of
odds and ends called "Strays," as in stray signals. That is where you could often
find bits of poetry, anecdotes about some Ham's experience while operating, and
news about amateur radio related happenings. The May 1933 QST included "Ode to
a New Rig," by Mrs. W8ETH (whoever W8ETH was), which title might have been inspired
by Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn
..."
Triad RF Systems introduced the
TA1164, a broadband GaN SSPA designed for general purpose RF test
and military jamming applications. Internal DC conversion allows for a 12 to 36
Vin supply voltage. CW output power is 10 W min, 20 W typical across the
700-6000 MHz band
 Spring is in the air, which means college
seniors graduating and moving into their first full-time career endeavors. A lot
of advice has been written regarding what to do and what not to do during job hunting
and during the first months of employment. As with technology, the list of
do's and
don'ts regarding all aspects of a career change over time. Workers today need
to know about how to exploit and/or avoid social media, how to handle interviews
within the constraints
...
•
Top Startups Tips: Engineers Tell Their Startup Stories
at ESC Boston 2016
•
Graduates: 5 Practices to Accelerate You from Entry-
Level to Professional
• How to Handle Co-Workers Who Push Your Buttons
•
Telltale Symptoms of Career Stagnation
<more>
 As a Communications Engineer, you will play a
key role in support, design, test and turn up, and documentation of new and existing
customer wireless networks in a mining environment. Position responsibilities will
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 our customers at Corporate and Regional levels.
This will require you to negotiate with internal and external resources to plan
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2 years of hands-on experience with industrial WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n ...
 "Lithium air batteries could soon replace the bulky lithium ion
batteries that power most of today's consumer electronic devices. They should be
much lighter and offer better performance, but there is one big obstacle: lithium
air batteries only last a few charging cycles. Although there is no solution yet,
researchers at Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Forschungszentrum
Jülich believe they have finally pinpointed the source of the problem. The potential
for rechargeable lithium
..."
 This 'Hetrofil,' (sometimes errantly referred
to as a 'Heterofil') shorthand for 'heterodyne filter,' was conceived of,
designed, and built by author Raymond Woodard. A Wien bridge is used to selectively
null out interference caused by leakage of the heterodyne beat frequency into the
audio (phone) circuit. The beauty of the Hetrofil
is only a few inexpensive passive components are needed. It is inserted between
the receiver headset jack and the headset. A couple years later, Wade Caywood applied
the Hetrofil concept to an oscillator tuning and
...
 "It was a eureka moment when IBM researchers
first realized that they were imaging the surface of an atom with what came to be
known as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Many believe that invention triggered
the field of nanotechnology. Now researchers at the University of California Santa
Barbara have created a next-gen microscope that can image phenomena like magnetism on
the atomic scale across a huge range of temperatures. The heart of the microscope
is a
single atom or, perhaps more accurately
..."
 "The Science Museum in London is on a mission
to rebuild the UK's first humanoid robot. "Eric" was
invented by William Richards and Albert Herbert Reffell, two veterans of the First
World War, in 1928. He was a large, burly machine covered in aluminium, and was
able to stand up, move his arms and change the position of his head. Eric's movements
could be controlled remotely over a wireless connection, or directly using voice
commands, much to the amusement of the public. He was built initially to open an
Exhibition of the Society of Model Engineers in London, but later travelled
..."
Tech News: May 12
IC Capital Spending Forecast Improves Slightly
Lockheed Martin Makes Major STEM Push to Inspire
Young Space Innovators
Over-the-Horizon Radars, Fishery and Taxi
Traffic, Buoys, and Broadcasters Continue to Mar Ham Bands
AC/DC: Engineers Shrink Size and Cost of RFID Chips
Nokia Posts Loss in Q1 2016 as Sales Decline
(how the mighty have fallen)
U.S. Reaping the Results of a Poisoned Relationship
with IT Industry
Pasternack, a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products,
introduces a brand new family of precision
waveguide twists operating from 18 to
110 GHz across seven frequency bands. Ideal for systems requiring a gradual turn
in the polarization and waveform, these twists are designed and constructed to prevent
unwanted distortion in the signal's transmission. Pasternack's new waveguide twists
are useful components when building a waveguide system, as they allow the waveguide
to be turned at a precise angle
 "Engineers
officially started work on a new way to connect base stations and data centers that
could enable lower cost, more flexible cellular networks as well as new 5G capabilities.
IEEE
1914 will pave a way for carriers to deploy hundreds of antennas in field sites
and process signals from them on central pools of low cost servers. The Next-Generation
Fronthaul Interface (NGFI) will use Ethernet to handle quality of service, synchronization
and data security ..."
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EDI
CON USA 2016, a conference that brings together engineers working on high-frequency
analog and high-speed digital designs, taking place September 20-22 in Boston, Mass.
at the Hynes Convention Center, has announced the participants in this year's Technical
Advisory Committee. The EDI CON
USA 2016 Technical Advisory Committee is made up of leading experts in RF/microwave
and high-speed digital design who are committed to the educational mission of EDI
CON. They volunteer their time to review and evaluate submitted abstracts
 No, this is not a liberal vs. conservative
thing, although you might be tempted to think so when considering the terms of each.
A copyright, as you know, is legal protection against unauthorized usage or obvious
modification of original works, something a right-winger would like because it represents
a right to private property. A
copyleft, on
the other hand, is a left-winger's dream because it permits free distribution of
original works with the only restriction being that it and/or derivative works also
be declared copyleft material. That explains why evil capitalist companies like
IBM copyright and patent everything it creates, and why liberal-dominated companies
like ...
Teslaphoresis: How It Makes Self-Assembling
Circuits
 "Have you heard the term 'Teslaphoresis?' You can forgive yourself
if you haven't because a group of scientists at Rice University just invented the
term to describe a new phenomenon that could have big implications for electronics
assembly and nanotechnology. Paul Cherukuri, an adjunct assistant processor of chemistry
at Rice, said the easiest way to think of Teslaphoresis is as 'self-assembly at
a distance [or] ... long-distance assembly of materials.' While experimenting with
Tesla coils, a team, led by Cherukuri, decided to see what would happen if they
applied a long-range force field
..."
Keysight Technologies today announced it will demonstrate the latest design,
simulation and test solutions for wireless communications and aerospace & defense
at the
IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium
(IMS2016), Booth 1239, San Francisco, May 24-26. Keysight's hardware, software and
technical expertise help engineers and designers gain insight into the toughest
component and system engineering challenges. This is accomplished by providing solutions
for aerospace & defense (radar, electronic warfare, satellite and NewSpace)
and wireless communications (5G, Internet of Things, 802.11ad
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