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Thursday 1
 Rauland (aka Rauland-Borg)
has today on its History webpage that it was founded in 1922 as the Rauland
Company, by inventor and
radio enthusiast E. Norman Rauland. Soon thereafter he became a pioneer in
the radio broadcast industry by launching the Chicago-based radio station, WENR
(which eventually became the well-known WLS). In 1941 Norm Rauland and George
Borg entered a partnership, and a year later acquired Baird Television of
America. Rauland developed cathode ray tubes (CRT) and became an important
supplier of communications and radar equipment during WWII. After the war,
Rauland began manufacturing CRTs for 10" and 12" televisions. They were so
successful that in 1948, Zenith Radio Corporation purchased them to get the CRT
technology. This circa 1953 Rauland advertisement ran in Radio-Electronics
magazine to pitch their breakthrough aluminizing process that produced CRTs with
brighter pictures and greater contrast with relatively low anode voltages, which
was a big deal at the time due to concern over high levels of x-rays...
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 Joel R. Hallas (W1ZR), ARRL QST magazine's
monthly "The
Doctor Is In" column writer, has written many notable quotes over the years
while responding to readers' questions. Most of the Q's and A's are about antennas,
transmission lines, and impedance matching. The October 2020 issue contains the
following statement which is profoundly important to remember, particularly where
antennas are concerned, "...but
ground is always somewhere." It might seem like a Captain Obvious statement,
but people not overly familiar with the effects of a ground plane - be it solid,
mesh, or an array of radials - can and does have a huge effect on the radiation
pattern and effective impedance of every kind of antenna. Mr. Hallas' middle
initial is given as "R," but is might as well be "E" - for
EZNEC - because of his masterful and frequent
use of it in analyzing antenna setups and which often includes pattern plots in
his answers. It just figures that since I mention it, EZNEC is not mentioned this
month.
 "You can feel it on your laptop and mobile
phone. It's behind your refrigerator and office copy machine. While heat is desirable
for appliances like a coffee maker, it can jeopardize the reliability and safety
of electronic systems in other devices, causing premature failure at best and explosions
at worst. Active control of heat transport, as with thermal switches and thermal
diodes, is important for a range of applications in heating and cooling, energy
conversion, materials processing, and data storage. In practice,
thermal diodes are highly desirable thermal components for many engineering
applications because they allow energy systems to transfer heat to designated areas..."
 Artech House today announced the release
of
Designing Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR, by Timothy D.
Cole. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how wireless sensor network (WSN)
systems, a key element of the Internet of Things (IoT), are designed and evaluated
to solve problems associated with autonomous sensing systems. Functional blocks
that form WSN-based systems are described, chapter by chapter, providing the reader
with a progressive learning path through all aspects of designing remote sensing
capabilities using a WSN-based system. The development and a full description of
fundamental performance equations and technological solutions required by these
real-time systems are included. New Release discount price available now...
 Since 2003, Bittele Electronics has consistently
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Electronics-Themed
Comics June 1951 Radio-Electronics
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 With more than 1000
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 "EPFL physicists propose a new path to
detect infrared radiation
with outstanding sensitivity, allowing detection of signals as low as that of a
single quantum of light. When using our webcam or cell phone camera, we experience
the tremendous capabilities of cheap and compact sensors developed in the past decades
for the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. On the contrary, detection
of lower frequency radiation not visible to the human eye (such as mid- and far-infrared
radiation) requires complex and costly equipment. Lack of a compact technology impedes
widespread access to sensors for the recognition of molecules and the imaging of
thermal radiation naturally emitted by our bodies. A new conceptual breakthrough
in this field may therefore..."
 "Two DARPA-developed technologies - a novel
decision aid for mission commanders and a rapid software integration tool - played
a critical role in the recent Air Force demonstration of the Advanced Battle Management
System (ABMS). The Adapting
Cross-domain Kill-webs (ACK) program and the System-of-systems Technology Integration
Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems (STITCHES) were among a number of
technologies employed in the Aug. 31 - Sep. 4 ABMS on-ramp demonstration, which
involved attacks using live aircraft, ships, air defense batteries, and other assets.
ACK is developing a decision aid for mission commanders to assist them with rapidly
identifying and selecting options for tasking - and re-tasking - assets within and
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sensors, effectors..."
European Space Agency Develops a Mesh Reflector for Shaped Radio Beams
Electron Hole, Meet Your Fractional Cousin
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