Microwave Journal articles from April 2003

Microwave Journal archives from April 2003

Coming events.(Calendar)
April 1, 2003... IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility May 11-16, 2003 Istanbul, Turkey This symposium will provide opportunities for EMC researchers, Scientists, engineers and vendors to present the latest research...

CCD/CMOS imaging sensors and application. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Describes advances made in pixel count, quantum efficiency, charge transfer efficiency, read noise, large dynamic range and high speed operation. CCD and CMOS technologies developed to achieve high levels of performance are discussed....

Antennas: principles, design and measurements. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Antenna fundamentals, arrays, wire antennas, broadband antennas, horns, reflectors, antennas in systems, antennas for wireless communications and measurements. For more information, visit www.antennacourse.com. * Site: Dulles, VA...

Introductory RF and microwaves. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Introduction to the field of RF and microwaves. Intended for engineers, managers and technicians who need to be introduced to particular aspects of RF and microwave signals, and associated testing and measurement procedures. *...

Introduction to electromagnetic compatibility design practices. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC/EMI), and focus on the methodology of how to minimize EMC problems. Attendees will be offered a hands-on personal consultation. For more information, visit www.dlsemc.com. *...

RF and microwave receiver design. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Understand the receiver requirements and how to flow the requirements to circuit design level and back. Intended for anyone involved in specifications, receiver design, RF circuit design and microwave system development. * Site:...

RF power amps, classes A-S. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Provides a detailed explanation of the various classes of RF power amplifiers, and where each class is used in today's wireless designs. Amplifier classes A through S are defined and clearly explained, including the advantages,...

RF/microwave circuit design. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Enhance the design capability of the RF or microwave engineer by introducing modem linear and nonlinear design techniques. Seeks to combine the theory and practice of modern, computer-aided high frequency circuit design with greater...

Space-based radar. (Workshops & Courses).
April 1, 2003... * Topics: Techniques and design of space-based radar (SBR) systems, including ground moving target indication, synthetic aperture radar techniques, SAR interferometry to generate DTED-level digital terrain models, design of SBR systems and the...

An adaptive feedforward amplifier for WCDMA base stations using imperfect signal cancellation. (Technical Feature).
April 1, 2003... This article describes a new adaptive feedforward amplifier for a WCDMA system using an imperfect signal cancellation. Due to the complicated signal statistics, the distortion generated by the error amplifier is significantly reduced by an...

Harris Corp.'s weather and radar processor system in use by controllers. (News From Washington).
April 1, 2003... Air traffic controllers at the nation's 21 FAA air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs) now can view real-time, graphical weather data at their stations, using the weather and radar processor (WARP) system. WARP, developed for the FAA by...

Raytheon awarded additional $43 M for AMRAAM Lot 16 production. (News from Washington).(advanced medium range air-to-air missiles)
April 1, 2003... Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $43.2 M firm-fixed price contract modification to produce an additional 142 advanced medium range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM). This is the third additional order for missiles in the Lot 16 contract, which brings...

Air Force launches Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning System satellite. (News from Washington).
April 1, 2003... A global positioning system (GPS) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral. This was the seventh successful launch of the new-generation spacecraft, designated GPS IIR. The company...

Rockwell Collins and US Air Force sign strategic partnership agreement. (News from Washington).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Rockwell Collins Aviation Services and Warner Robins Air Logistics Center have entered into a strategic partnership agreement. This agreement is expected to mutually improve communications, planning and support to facilitate the availability...

Turnkey Network opens the door for Alcatel in Nigeria. (International Report).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... In order to unlock the vast potential of the African market, Globacom, the second national carrier of Nigeria, has awarded Alcatel a major global frame contract, with an initial order of [euro]675 M, for the supply of a nation-wide turnkey...

Siemens and Tele2 in Russian federation. (International Report).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Marrying the skills of two lea ding companies, the Sweden-based telecom operator Tele2 AB has awarded Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (Siemens mobile) the contract to build its GSM 1800 network throughout the Russian...

Dual-band WLAN pioneer crosses frontiers. (International Report).(Synad)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Demonstrating that technical development knows no boundaries, Synad, the fabless WLAN System-on-Chip company, has begun an international expansion programme with the opening of new offices in Asia, Europe and the US. The company has moved into...

AMS attains pole position in race for Defence contract. (International Report).(in Poland)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... In a move to strengthen the Polish Air Defence, AMS has been awarded a contract by the NATO Agency NC3A to supply three air defence three-dimensional radar systems (RAT31DL). The contract, which is valued at approximately 35 M, was won as the...

Radar antenna faces tough test in Australia. (International Report).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Northrop Grumman Corp. has begun structural testing of the antenna for its Multirole Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar, which the company is producing under contract to The Boeing Co. for the Australian Defence Force's Wedgetail...

IEEE 802.20 will set data rates above 1 Mbps for mobile users. (The Commercial Market).
April 1, 2003... Mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA) for computers, personal digital assistants and other battery-powered devices is to take a major step forward. The next two years will see a standard developed at the IEEE to create an air-interface that...

Commerce Dept. announces plans for modernization of Technology agencies. (The Commercial Market).
April 1, 2003... US Secretary of Commerce, Don Evans, announced that he will propose to modernize the structure for the Department's formulation of technology and telecommunications policy. The new structure will combine the Technology Administration (TA), the...

Wireless LAN's future established as big tech and telecom companies enter the market. (The Commercial Market).
April 1, 2003... The wireless LAN (WLAN) industry is experiencing tremendous growth aided by lower pricing points and standardization of the technology. Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) believes that this growth will continue to accelerate, as multi-billion...

Spacek Labs Inc. (Industry News).(George C. Spacek dies)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
April 1, 2003... Spacek Labs Inc. lost its founder and president, George C. Spacek, on December 3rd, 2002, at the age of 80 after a long battle with cancer. He leaves a legacy of his patented designs, innovations and a thriving business. His talented and...

Anritsu Corp. (Industry News).(buys shares of Nissho Electronics)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Anritsu Corp., the parent company of Anritsu Co., will purchase 500,000 shares of Nissho Electronics as part of a special offering to be conducted by Nissho Electronics. With the purchase, worth an estimated $4.7 M, Anritsu will hold a two...

P.C.B. Engineering Inc. (Industry News).(acquired by Lenthor Engineering)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Lenthor Engineering announced the acquisition of P.C.B. Engineering Inc. The newly formed company plans to readily offer its combined customer base a comprehensive portfolio of advanced engineering and manufacturing services.

Polese Company Inc. (Industry News).(sold to Schwarzkopf Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SEMX Corp. announced that it completed the sale of the stock of its San Diego, GA-based subsidiary, Polese Company Inc., to Schwarzkopf Technologies Corp., a private Austrian company, which specializes in the manufacture and sale of materials....

Andrew Corp. (Industry News).(acquires part of Allen Telecom Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Andrew Corp. and Allen Telecom Inc. announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which Andrew will acquire Allen in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $500 M. The combined company will be a global supplier of coaxial...

Eagleware Corp. (Industry News).(agreement with Modelithics Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Eagleware Corp. announced that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with Modelithics Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Eagleware has integrated Modelithics' EDA component models into its GENESYS suite of EDA software. In addition,...

M2 Global Technology Ltd. (Industry News).(acquires assets from Commercial Microwave Components Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... M2 Global Technology Ltd. announced the acquisition of key product lines from Commercial Microwave Components Inc. The acquired assets for the RF passive component coax and drop-in isolator and circulator product lines include intellectual...

di/dt Inc. (Industry News).(acquired by Power-One Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... di/dt Inc. announced that it has been acquired by Power-One Inc. di/dt is now a subsidiary of Power-One, and will continue its operations as "di/dt, a Power-One Co." Power-One was previously a stockholder and exclusive licensee of di/dt for key...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Industry News).(distribution agreement with Avnet Electronics)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Avnet Electronics marketing's RF and microwave division has signed a North American distribution agreement with Skyworks Solutions Inc. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

ATW Companies. (Industry News).(acquired Parmatech Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... ATW Companies of Warwick, RI, announced that it has acquired Parmatech Corp., a Fetaluma, GA-based subsidiary of Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, PA.

Coventor Inc. (Industry News).(alliance with Cadence Design Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Coventor Inc. announced a multi-year alliance with Cadence Design Systems Inc. to offer comprehensive design tools for developing next generation MEMS products and systems. Coventor and Cadence will offer a software toolset that seamlessly...

Cigma Technologies. (Industry News).(acquires assets from HC Electronics of America Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Cigma Technologies announced that it has acquired the extensive wireless amplifier research and development projects, prototypes and equipment from HC Electronics of America Inc. With it, Cigma also gains control of the HG Frotek Test and...

Precise Time and Frequency Inc. (Industry News).(begins operations)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Precise Time and Frequency Inc. (www.ptfinc.com), specializing in premium performance time and frequency products, announced commencement of operations at its Peabody, MA facility. PTF has positioned itself to deliver tailored products to...

Applied Wave Research Inc. (Industry News).(European headquarters relocate)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR[TM]) announced the relocation and expansion of the company's European headquarters in the UK. The new offices are located at Lyon Court in Hitchin, Hefts (Tel: +44 (0) 870 220 2334) and will maintain...

Spectron Inc. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Spectron Inc., 43 Bellchase Ct., Baltimore, MD 21208 (443) 414-6685, is a newly formed RF/microwave representative firm covering MD, VA and DC headed by Bruce Spector.

Jersey Microwave. (Industry News).(new address)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Jersey Microwave has moved to a new location. The location will allow the company to add additional test sets, expand engineering, increase production capabilities and position itself for the next several years. The new address is 432 Sand...

Advanced Control Components Inc. (Industry News).(new address)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Advanced Control Components Inc., Eatoatown, NJ, announced its new address: 611 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, NJ 07724. ACC has moved to a 16,000 square ft. facility including a 5000 square ft. state-of-the-art class 10,000 clean room. At the...

Palomar Technologies. (Industry News).(contract with Herley Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Palomar Technologies announced that Herley Industries Inc. is utilizing Palomar's assembly automation systems to increase yield and lower production costs for microwave components used in defense electronics systems. The Herley production line...

Accent Optical Technologies. (Industry News).(contract with Modelithics Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Accent Optical Technologies announced the placement of a high power DIVA system, the D265, at Modelithics Inc. This is the second DIVA placed at Modelithics. The first, a DIVA 225 capable of 25 V and lA operation, was installed in April, 2002,...

Ashvattha Semiconductor Inc. (Industry News).(patent)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ashvattha Semiconductor Inc. announced that it has been issued Patent No. 6,486,534 for its isolation technology, which supports the creation of multi-mode, multi-standard radios on just one RF chip. The newly patented isolation technology is...

IEE. (Industry News).(new magazine, Web site, look)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The IEE has launched a new look, and backed it with a new, 125,000 circulation monthly magazine and an enhanced Web site. The IEE Review is a 68-page publication and was one of the first major changes made. The new Web site--www.iee.org--brings...

Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products Inc. (Industry News).(ISO 9001:2000 certification)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products Inc. has achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification, the highest international standard for measuring the quality management principles of a company.

AMI Semiconductor. (Industry News).(acheives certification)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) announced the AMIS manufacturing facility in Oudenaarde, Belgium has achieved ISO 14001 certification. The ISO 14001 standard specifies a framework for an environmental management system. The company's manufacturing...

CMC Electronics Cincinnati. (Contracts).(contract from Lockheed Martin)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... CMC Electronics Cincinnati, Mason, OH, has received a contract from Lockheed Martin Space & Strategic Missiles, near Denver, GO, for the qualification and production of the upper-stage remote control (URCU) flight unit assemblies. The URCU,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. (Contracts).(with QinetiQ Group PLC)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that QinetiQ Group plc has selected Agilent Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to help accelerate time to market for its millimeter-wave integrated circuit designs. Agilent Advanced Design System tools,...

Microwave Innovations. (Contracts).(with Raytheon)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Microwave Innovations has been awarded a design and development contract for a 1 W transmitter in support of the MRM smart munition test program. The transmitter will perform in the common telemetry operating band providing downlink information...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Contracts).(and Sagem)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Silicon Laboratories Inc. announced that Sagem has achieved full type approval (FTA) certification and is in volume production with multiple designs that use Silicon Labs' Aero[TM] GSM/GPRS transceiver. The Aero transceiver was selected by...

EMS Technologies Inc. (Contracts).(with L3 Communications)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... EMS Technologies Inc. announced that its Space and Technology Group has received a contract from L3 Communications West to develop a beam-switching network in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program to demonstrate...

TESSCO Technologies Inc. (Financial News).(third-quarter results)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... TESSCO Technologies Inc. reports sales of $65 M for the third quarter ended December 29, 2002, equaling revenue in the corresponding prior year quarter. Net income was $311,400 (0.07cents/diluted share), compared to a net income of $1.4 M...

SiGe Semiconductor. (Financial News).(raises $42.8 mil in Series B funding)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SiGe Semiconductor announced it has raised US $42.8 M in Series B funding. The investment is the third highest round of financing closed by a fabless semiconductor company during the last year according to the Fabless Semiconductor Association....

Ansoft Corp. (Financial News).(third-quarter results)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ansoft Corp. reports sales of $12.4 M for the third quarter ended January 31, 2003, compared to $14.1 M for the same period in 2002. Net loss was $58,000 (essentially break even/diluted share), compared to a net income of $591,000...

Peregrine Semiconductor. (Financial News).(completes third tranche series A1 financing round)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Peregrine Semiconductor announced that it has raised $7.5 M in the third and final tranche of its $23 M series Al round. Venture firms Technology Venture Partners, and Australasian Media and Communications Fund, both from Sydney, Australia,...

NEC Corp. (Personnel).(Masakazu Yamashina wins International Solid-state Circuits Conference Authors Award )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... NEC Corp. announced that Masakazu Yamashina, senior manager of Silicon Systems Research Laboratories at NEC Corp., has been named one of the ten recipients of the Top-1 International Solid-state Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Authors Award by the...

PCI Geomatics. (Personnel).(president/CEO to sit on Open GIS Consortium board)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Robert Moses, president and CEO of geospatial software leader PCI Geomatics, has accepted a position on the board of directors for Open GIS Consortium. Nominated by the Canadian government through CeoConnections, a national partnership...

Anritsu Ltd. (Personnel).(Paul Hunter promoted to managing director)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Paul Hunter has been promoted to the position of managing director of Anritsu Ltd., which is the holding company for all of Anritsu's European operations. Hunter's new role sees him taking leadership in Europe for the company's European...

Andrew Corp. (Personnel).(Ralph E. Faison named chief executive officer and president )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Andrew Corp's. board of directors has appointed Ralph E. Faison as chief executive officer and president of Andrew Corp. Faison was formerly Andrew's president and chief operating officer. He succeeds Floyd L. English, who will continue as...

TriPoint Global Communications. (Personnel).(Bill Corondan to manage Gabriel Microwave product line)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... TriPoint Global Communications announced that it has appointed Bill Corondan to manage its Gabriel Microwave product line. He will report to Gary Kanipe, chief operating officer. Corondan comes to the company from Andrew Corp., where he most...

Richardson Electronics. (Personnel).(Philippe Ansoult hired as product marketing manager )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Richardson Electronics announced the addition of Philippe Ansoult as product marketing manager for its RF and wireless communications business unit in Europe. Most recently, Ansoult served as sales director, France, for BFI, and previously held...

MI Technologies. (Personnel).(Michael J. Kujawa named manager of international sales, Europe)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... MI Technologies announced the appointment of Michael J. Kujawa, manager of international sales, Europe. In his new position, Kujawa is responsible for developing new accounts and assisting the company's expansion of product applications in RF,...

International Manufacturing Services Inc. (Personnel).(David J. London named director of sales and marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... International Manufacturing Services Inc. announced the appointment of David J. London to the position of director of sales and marketing. London has worked as a sales and marketing consultant, specific to the RF and microwave component...

Vitelec Electronics. (Personnel).(Peter Roberts named UK distribution manager)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Vitelec Electronics has appointed Peter Roberts as UK distribution manager. Joining the company from Electrospeed, Roberts has over 20 years experience in the electronics industry, coupled with a first-hand knowledge of connector and component...

CAP Wireless Inc. (Personnel).(Penn Jia joins engineering technical staff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... CAP Wireless Inc. announced the appointment of Penn Jia to the engineering technical staff. Jia comes to the company from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-developed a unique method of spatial combining applicable to...

Semflex. (Personnel).(Ron Desilets named western regional sales manager)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Semflex announced that Ron Desilets has been selected to fill the position of western regional sales manager for the company. Previously in the role of Mil/Aero business development specialist at Trompeter Electronics, another entity of...

Chelton Microwave Corp. (Rep Appointments).(marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Chelton Microwave Corp. and its four operating divisions, Atlantic Microwave, Continental Microwave, Kevlin and Nurad Technologies Inc., have appointed new representatives to assist in marketing their antenna, radome, microwave components,...

Lorch Microwave. (Rep Appointments).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Lorch Microwave announced representative appointments: Dynamic Technology will cover Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and southern Illinois; Northern Technical Sales will be responsible for all of upstate New York; Saguaro Technical Sales will...

Trilithic. (Web Site).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Trilithic announced the launch of an enhanced Web site featuring "one-click" menu styles for easier access to products and resources, more product tutorials, educational tech files and other resources available for download. This Web site also...

A novel adaptive feedforward amplifier using an analog controller. (Technical Feature).
April 1, 2003... A novel adaptive design for a feedforward amplifier linearizer with an analog controller is proposed in this article. Compared with previous adaptive linearizing methods, this new design does not require any pilot signal or intentional signal...

A voltage-controlled PIN diode attenuator using an accurate PIN diode model. (Technical Feature).
April 1, 2003... This article presents a voltage-controlled PIN diode attenuator using an accurate PIN diode model that can precisely simulate the attenuation characteristics. After carefully investigating the problems with conventional PIN diode models, an...

Specification and measurement of local oscillator noise in integrated circuit base station mixers. (Technical Feature).
April 1, 2003... Residual phase noise from local oscillators can be degraded by additive noise of on-chip local oscillator (LO) drivers/buffers in integrated circuit mixers. Reciprocal mixing of strong RE signals with the LO noise degrades the receiver...

Design of a predistorter controlling individual orders of intermodulation using a new harmonic generator. (Technical Feature).
April 1, 2003... A new type of predistortion linearizer is presented which uses individual orders of intermodulation to linearize a power amplifier. This new predistortion linearizer has two harmonic generators, each consisting of four diodes biased...

High performance comb generator multipliers. (Cover Feature).
April 1, 2003... A comb generator is a device with outputs that are multiple harmonics of an input signal. The output spectral tone lines are uniformly spaced at integer multiples of the input reference. A spectrum analyzer display of the output looks much like...

A broadband package utilizing high thermal performance aluminum nitride. (Product Feature).(CMC Wireless Components)
April 1, 2003... The CMC-SOIC8 ceramic SOIC8 surface-mount package is ideal for packaging RF/microwave MMIC and discrete devices for applications from DC to 18 GHz. This new addition to CMC's standard product line is fabricated using aluminum nitride (AlN), a...

100 W RF transistor for 900 MHz cellular applications. (Product Feature).(Motorola Semiconducteurs S.A.S.)
April 1, 2003... Upcoming generations of cellular radio systems such as GSM EDGE or UMTS require increasing power levels to meet linearity requirements of transmitted signals. To reduce overall costs, equipment manufacturers aim at reducing the number of...

New types of millimeter-wave noise sources. (Product Feature).(Spacek Labs )
April 1, 2003... Used for remote sensing in various applications and environments, microwave and millimeter-wave radiometers (RM) require frequent calibration. Microwave radiometers measure noise temperature using a suitable antenna which is designed to match a...

A cellular band power amplifier/duplexer module. (Product Feature).(TriQuint Semiconductor, Atmel Corp.)
April 1, 2003... Wireless communications handsets are increasing in functionality through the addition of features such as GPS, color displays and PDA functions. At the same time the handset is maintaining a roughly constant price and size target. Because of...

Elliptical waveguide assemblies. (Components).
April 1, 2003... The HELIAX(r) WJ380 elliptical waveguide assemblies are for terrestrial microwave systems. Assemblies are available in many lengths, giving system designers and engineers a high performance, cost-effective transmission line option for 38 GHz...

High power T switch. (Components).
April 1, 2003... The 511H-730322 high power T switch offers a solution for S-band and C-band redundancy systems. Maximum weight of this high power T switch is 195 grams. DC characteristics include 32 to 43 VDC operating voltage and 510 mA (max) operating...

Phase shifter/frequency translators. (Components).
April 1, 2003... The series 77A phase shifter/frequency translators have been upgraded to provide 10 bit digital control. Models of this series are available for the 0.5 to 2 GHz, 2 to 6 GHz, 4 to 12 Gliz and 6 to 18 GHx bands. Employing an integrated assembly...

Surface-mount "drop-in" filter. (Components).
April 1, 2003... The model EWT-21-0070 surface-mount "drop-in" filter is available in the frequency range of 2 to 30 GHx with percent bandwidths of 2 to 50 percent. This model is designed for a center frequency of 4 GHx and exhibits pass band insertion loss of...

Interference protection duplexer. (Components).
April 1, 2003... This interference protection duplexer is for the 800 MHz wireless infrastructure market. With a transmit pass-band of 869 to 886.75 MHz, this duplexer will pass almost the entire 850 MHz B band, and with 70 dB of attenuation in the GSM receive...

Reflective PIN diode switch. (Components).
April 1, 2003... Model R6C-69-ODI is a SP6T reflective PIN diode switch that operates from 2 to 18 GHz. This switch is a custom designed package as an octagon. Across the entire band SWR is better than 2.0, insertion loss is better than 3.3 dB and the isolation...

Quick lock coax connector. (Components).
April 1, 2003... The QN connector is a quick connect version of the N series and shares a similar internal construction, providing good performance up to 11 GHz. Since the RF line is identical to the N series, the QN features low loss RF performance, low RF...