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 ConductRF's
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RF Testing. These cables are directly compatible with Hand-Held Network and Spectrum analyzers.
Options include DC to 7 GHz through DC to 50 GHz. The ruggedized construction includes
anti-torque connectors that are firmly attached to the cables external armor. Crush resistant
SF series cable can withstand 1,200 lbs/sq.in ...
 "A new method that precisely measures the mysterious
behavior and magnetic properties of electrons flowing across the surface of quantum materials
could open a path to
next-generation electronics. Found at the heart of electronic devices,
silicon-based semiconductors rely on the controlled electrical current responsible for powering
electronics. These semiconductors can only access the electrons' charge for ..."
 Printed circuit boards (PCBs), especially high density
and many layered, were still a relatively new technology in 1969. Point-to-point wiring was
still a large part of most products in the commercial, military, industrial, and aerospace
worlds. Producing artwork and contracting for a lot of PCBs was rather expensive, especially
in small quantities. Many people, including me, made quite a few single- and two-sided boards
using photoresist pens and self-adhesive tape and pads, then bathing them in an etchant solution
of ferric chloride. Through holes were made on a drill press and then traces and pads were
tinned with flux and solder ...
 "At a time when much of the industry's attention has
been on midband spectrum, Nokia is taking it up a notch by pursuing tests in the
90-96 GHz range. The vendor filed an application with the FCC asking for
permission to conduct the tests over the course of two years at Nokia facilities in Murray
Hill, New Jersey; Arlington Heights and Naperville, Illinois; and Sunnyvale, California. The
application ..."
 "TechInsights explored some of the Bluetooth and cellular
IoT devices that it expects will dominate the Internet of Things for some time.
Bluetooth 5.0
SoCs will be rapidly adopted by consumer IoT devices such as smartwatches and health and
fitness products. Two emerging cellular IoT standards - narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and Enhanced
Machine-type Communications (eMTC) - will see wide applications in smart meters, bikes and
other new emerging ..."
 This Bulova
Accuquartz wristwatch is not the first quartz-controlled wearable timepiece; however,
it was the first to be manufactured in the U.S. Interestingly, it is not a fully electronic
watch because the quartz crystal stimulates a mechanical tuning fork which ultimately drives
the hands. Bulova's first tuning-fork-driven "Accutron" was introduced in 1960. It sported
a 360 Hz tuning fork that was stimulated by a pair of electromagnets ...
 Update: "The corporate headquarters of test company
Keysight Technologies is shut down and suffered minor damage in the wildfires
that have wiped out parts of Santa Rosa, California. Although a local news report claimed
that the campus had been destroyed, the most recent update from the company said that as of
Monday afternoon, 'all four main buildings are intact, although there appears to be some minor
damage. Two modular structures and several automobiles suffered more ..."
 "Robust, flexible,
wireless temperature
sensor based on SansEC. NASA Langley Research Center has developed a robust, wireless
temperature sensor that does not require an electrical connection. The temperature sensor
is built on NASA's SansEC sensor platform, which takes advantage of measuring dielectric changes.
The temperature sensor is damage tolerant, wireless, flexible, precise, and inexpensive. One
promising application is for tire temperature ..."
 Saelig Company has introduced the
GW
Instek GPM-8213 AC Power Meter, which has been designed specifically for power measurements
on single-phase AC power supplies. This instrument offers high-accuracy voltage, current,
and power measurement capabilities from both front- and rear-panel inputs, presenting users
with clear, convenient, and accurate AC power measurements. The GPM-8213 provides 2 display
modes in order to maximize its measurement usefulness. In the Standard Mode it simultaneously
displays 8 measurement parameters; this is ideal for R&D and engineering ...
 Pasternack, a leading provider of RF, microwave and
millimeter wave products, has introduced a new line of
cross guide waveguide couplers with 4 port, 3 port and 2 port with coax
interface that work across C to K bands. Typical applications include instrumentation, test
benches, product development and characterization. Pasternack's new line of cross guide couplers
consists of 160 parts in three sub-categories: cross guide couplers (4 waveguide ports), cross
guide couplers with terminations (3 waveguide ports) and cross ...
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 "Qualcomm was granted FCC authorization to conduct
experiments using a small 5G R&D development and demonstration network at
4.4-4.94 GHz in its hometown of San Diego. Specifically, the location
is within a 0.5-mile radius of Qualcomm's campus in the Sorrento Valley area of San Diego.
The authorization is effective until October 1, 2019. The application lists 30 mobile units
and four base stations to be used in a test network that will use a single TDD 100 MHz channel ..."
RF Cafe typically receives 30,000-40,000 page views each weekday and about half that
on weekends. RF Cafe is a favorite of engineers, technicians, hobbyists, and students
all over the world. With more than 8,600 pages in the Google search index, RF Cafe returns
in favorable positions on many types of keyword searches, both for text and images. New content
is added on a daily basis. Advertising plans
start at a mere $35 per month ...
 "Now in its 36th year,
MILCOM continues
to be the premier international conference for military communications. At MILCOM, global
military communications professionals face command, control, communications, computing, intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) challenges head on. They look at them from every angle
and discuss them from end to end - research and development through future needs. The conference
allows industry the opportunity to hear and understand the requirements, pace of change and
state of play in a variety of C4ISR ..."
 Res-Net Microwave has a complete line of precision
RF & microwave
components including attenuators, terminations, resistors, and diode detectors for commercial,
military, and space applications. Products range from the small flange type to large 2 kW
connectorized power attenuators and/or terminations at frequencies up to 26.5 GHz. In-house
photo etch and laser trim capability. Please check out Res-Net Microwave's website to
see how they can help with your current project ...
 "Every Wi-Fi connection is potentially vulnerable to
an unprecedented security flaw that allows hackers to snoop on internet traffic, researchers
have revealed. The vulnerability is the first to be found in the modern encryption techniques
that have been used to secure Wi-Fi networks for the last 14 years. The so-called 'Krack' attack has been described as a “fundamental flaw” in wireless security
techniques by experts. Apple, Android and Windows software are all susceptible to some version ..."
 Please take a few moments to visit the
everythingRF website to see how they can assist you with your
 project. everythingRF is a product discovery platform
for RF and Microwave Products and Services. They currently have 169,552 Products from more
than 1040 Companies across 258 Categories in our database and enable engineers to search for
them using their customized parametric search tool ...
 For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each
week I create a new
technology-themed crossword puzzle using only words related to engineering, science, mathematics,
chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. At least 10 clues in this puzzle with an asterisk (*)
are pulled from this past week's (10/9 - 10/13) "Tech Industry Headlines" column on the RF
Cafe homepage (see the Headline Archives page for help) ...
 There are not too many honest-to-goodness
electronics repair shops around anymore - those where the proprietor uses multimeters,
oscilloscopes, and signal generators to troubleshoot and align equipment. In fact, I would
guess that most such shops do most of their business based on customers who find their services
as the result of a Google search. You can find lots of cool videos of technicians demonstrating
(and showing off) their collection of test equipment and solder rework stations - mostly for
fixing vintage audio and video gear. Nowadays the smartphone screen replacement dude / dudette
working from a kiosk in the shopping mall is considered an electronics ...
 "An antenna designed for sense-and-avoid systems for
unmanned aircraft may not only help open the national airspace to unmanned air vehicles but
also transform the design of wide-bandwidth radar systems. The
Airborne Sense and Avoid Radar Panel is seen during installation on a
Twin Otter aircraft. Although unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have proven increasingly useful
in a variety of applications - disaster response operations, land and crop surveys, aerial
photography, and critical infrastructure protection ..."
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New Study Shows That Cracked Phones May Be No Accident
TV Stocks Tumble After AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure
Sprint Touts 33% Network Speed Increase over Last Year
Massive Adoption of Laser Tech for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Google and Others Likely to Make Spectrum Sharing Easier
28% of Telcos Expect to Deploy 5G in 2018
WD to Offer
40 TByte Hard Drives
JOTA-JOTI Reports More Than 2,500 Registered for October 20-22 Event
Taiwan Hits Qualcomm with $773M Antirust Fine
Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip
 "Key to the stochastic-resonance device's constant
buzzing of movement is the use of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in parallel and spanning chromium electrodes, and phosphomolybdic
acid (PMo12) molecules [red and blue clusters]. It seems counterintuitive that background
noise - like a white noise - could actually be used to help detect faint signals. But that's
what happens in an unexpected phenomenon known as stochastic ..."
 One article by Danny Rockett introduces an approach
to selecting the most suitable battery for a mobile device. I have posted many of my own commentaries
on the importance of
critical battery selection based mainly on my use of various technologies in my flying
models. Kickstarter and other startup funding websites are full of gizmos people have invented
that are battery-powered, so it is not just the "big boys" who need to be concerned. Back
in the early days of Bluetooth, I jokingly said that I should invest in battery company stocks
because if the scheme took off, I would be rich in a couple decades due to all the wireless
devices. Well, I didn't - but it did - and now I'm still not ...
 "Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip
metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of
light could be stretched infinitely long. The metamaterial represented a new method to manipulate
light and was an important step forward for integrated photonic circuits, which use light
rather than electrons to perform a wide variety of functions. Now SEAS researchers have ..."
 It has been over a year since I have worked on any old
electronics gear, so the need for hand-dandy
color code charts has not been at the top of my list for publishing. My bad. Every day
there are untold thousands of people hard at work - although most wouldn't consider it work
- restoring and maintaining a bit of world history. If you do a search on the RF Cafe website,
you will find many types of color code charts that were published over the decades by the
likes of Electronics World, Popular Electronics, Radio & TV News, Short Wave Craft ...
 Triad RF Systems announces the
TA1167, a compact 5 W amplifier suitable for COFDM video links in
the UAS and DTV broadcast space, covering 6,400 to 7,100 MHz. It's compact, efficient,
design allows for camera-back installations or other applications that are SWaP constrained.
The amplifier is capable of 1 W COFDM meeting -30 dB ACPR. Features include: Over
/ under / reverse voltage protection, optional heatsink, high speed On/Off control, and thermal
shutdown ...
 "When you're really harried, you probably feel like
your head is brimful of chaos. You're pretty close. Neuroscientists say your brain operates
in a regime termed the 'edge of chaos,' and it's actually a good thing. It's a state that allows
for fast, efficient analog computation of the kind that can solve problems that grow vastly
more difficult as they become bigger in size. The trouble is, if you're trying to replicate
that kind of chaotic computation ..."
 Georg Simon Ohm's eponymous "law," i.e.,
Ohm's law, is perhaps the best-known formula in the realm of electricity and electronics.
Although Mr. Ohm did not know it at the time, his conclusion holds up in both the macro
and micro scale worlds of electron behavior. Voltage is equal to the product of a resistance
and the current flowing through it, E = I * R. It is hard to believe that we have only had
his result, announced in 1825, at our disposal for less than 200 years. A thorough grasp of
Ohm's law is a minimum requirement for entry into the fields of electrical and electronics
work; fortunately, only a fundamental grasp of algebra is required. Kirchhoff's law is a relatively
easy next step. The big hurdle comes with wanting ...
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