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 ConductRF's
SiteFlex range of ruggedized
Field RF Test Cables are designed Field Test Engineers working in applications that require
on site RF Testing. These cables are directly compatible with Hand-Held Network and Spectrum
analyzers. Common options include: DC to 7 GHz, DC to 9 GHz, DC to 18 GHz,
DC to 27 GHz, DC to 40 GHz, and DC to 50 GHz. ConductRF's
Site-Flex RF Field Test Cables have been designed to support Handheld RF & Microwave
Analyzers. 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. Additional configurations and lengths are available on request ...
 Remember when the first manned spacecraft transported
astronauts to Mars and then back to Earth in the 1970s - a 13-month round trip? In
the mid-1960s, Electronics magazine reported on the preparations being made
by NASA for Mars travel at the same time they were busy preparing the Apollo mission
to the moon. The world's first manned orbit (Apollo 8) of the moon didn't happen
until in December 1968, a mere seven months before the historic July 1969 Apollo 11
moon landing*, but NASA was wasting no time planning for the next big thing. Of course
you know to date we never have made it to Mars with a manned spacecraft, but the headlines
are still filled with "any day now" projections by SpaceX's Elon Musk (whom I like) and
his contemporaries. Sure, I would love to be alive to witness a manned mission to Mars,
but I'd settle ...
 Centric RF is a company offering from stock various
RF and Microwave coaxial
components, including attenuators, adapters, cable assemblies, terminations, power
dividers, and more. We believe in offering high performance parts from stock at a reasonable
cost. Frequency ranges of 0-110 GHz at power levels from 0.5-500 watts are available
off the sheld. Order today, ship today! Centric RF is currently looking for vendors to
partner with them. Please visit Centric RF today ...
 Microwave Workshops & Exhibition 2018 (MWE2018) will be held on November
28-30, in Yokohama, Japan in the Exhibition Hall D & Annex Hall, Pacifico. Sponsored
by the IEICE APMC Japan National Committee and supported by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications, the agenda includes workshops in 5 special sessions are allocated
to treat fusion of different technical areas / fields, such as quantum computing and
social infrastructure. 19 regular sessions cover the latest microwave technologies from
active and passive devices to next generation applications and systems such as 5G mobile
communication systems, wireless power transmissions and automotive/vehicular applications.
5 fundamental courses and 4 introductory courses ...
 Since
2003, Bittele Electronics has consistently provided low-volume, electronic contract manufacturing
(ECM) and turnkey PCB assembly services. It specializes in board level turnkey
PCB assembly
for design engineers needing low volume or prototype multi-layer printed circuit boards.
Free Passive Components: Bittele Electronics is taking
one further step in its commitment of offering the best service to clients of its PCB
assembly business. Bittele is now offering common passive components to its clients FREE
of Charge ...
 "It wasn't that long ago that frequencies above
between 5 and 10 GHz were considered impractical for mass-market applications due to
challenges with requisite components, materials, layout, and production tolerances. While
these frequencies have been widely used for mil/aero, scientific, and other advanced
applications, they were viewed as being at the 'outer limits' of practicality for consumer and most industrial situations
(although some 24-GHz sensing has been in use for applications like industrial fluid-level
measurement). This scenario at the higher range of gigahertz frequencies has changed
dramatically due to advances ..."
Sunday 18
 Each week, for the sake of all avid cruciverbalists
amongst us, I create a new
technology-themed crossword puzzle using only words from my custom-created lexicon
related to engineering, science, mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. You
will never find among the words names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or
plants, movie stars, or anything of the sort. You might, however, see someone or something
in the exclusion list who or that is directly related to this puzzle's theme, such as
Hedy Lamarr or the Bikini Atoll, respectively - Enjoy ...
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 The
1933 "Century of Progress" World's Fair, held in Chicago, was a big
deal on many fronts. Life in America and around the world was changing rapidly due to
the widespread introduction into homes a decade earlier of electrical and telephone service,
indoor plumbing, and associated appliances. The state of the art was a modern wonder.
Transportation had been made affordable to many families, and leisure time was becoming
more abundant. If it were not for the advent of the stock market crash in 1929, economies
would be thriving because there was so much cool stuff to be had. Many people had taken
up the hobby and/or profession of wireless communications, so a display was included
on the fairgrounds for the craft. An interesting consequence of a combination of noisy
(electrically) electromechanical wonders being promoted
and the desire to demonstrate working amateur radio equipment was a necessity to locate
the two as far apart as possible...
 The
2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
runs January 8-11, in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES is the world's gathering place for all those
who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground
for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years - the global stage where next-generation
innovations are introduced to the marketplace. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology
Association (CTA), it attracts the world's business leaders and pioneering thinkers ...
 Radio & Wireless Week (RWW) 2019 runs January
20-23, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The venue is located in one of the
world's most visited tourist destinations. RWW consists of five related conferences that
focus on the intersection between wireless communication theory, systems, circuits, and
device technologies. This creates a unique forum for engineers to discuss various technologies
for state-of-the-art wireless systems and their end-use applications. ARFTG also joins
RWW2019 as a co-located conference. Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation
at RWW2019. All papers accepted ...
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 "Intel announced a new
5G chip for smartphones and other gadgets that the company will release
next year. The company said it expects the chip, which supports speeds up to 6 Gbps,
to ship in commercial devices starting in 2020. That timeframe is notable considering
Fast Company reported that Apple will launch a 5G iPhone with Intel's 5G chip in 2020.
The Fast Company report even cited the model number of Intel's chip - 8161 - which is
just one digit off from the name of Intel's chip announced today, the XMM 8160 5G modem.
Intel's Cormac Conroy, VP and GM of the company's communication and devices group, declined
to discuss Apple and Intel's 5G customer prospects ..."
 "Canadian researchers use scissors and glue to
transform RFID tag into device that can sense its environment While smart devices
are proliferating in the industrial and domestic environments, concerns remain that they
will not be sustainable unless their need for batteries and/or charging is removed. Researchers
at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, are claiming a major advance in this
area through making simple modifications to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag,
a battery-free device used to make objects machine-readable for the location and identification,
and which are increasingly ubiquitous in common objects ..."
 "Mozilla earlier this week launched the first
full edition of its
Internet Health Report. The report is 'an open source effort to explore
the state of human life on the Internet,' wrote Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman
in an online post. It consists of research and analysis about the Internet compiled by
researchers, engineers, data scientists, policy analysts and artists in Mozilla's extended
community. The digital rights, open source, and Internet freedom movements stand for
the idea that it is possible to build a digital world that is open, accessible and welcoming
to all, according to Mozilla. The Internet Health Report is based on the principles of
the recently expanded Mozilla Manifesto ..."
 "Miniaturized semiconductor devices with energy
harvesting features have paved the way to wearable technologies and sensors. Although
thermoelectric systems have attractive features in this context,
the ability to maintain large temperature differences across device terminals remains
increasingly difficult to achieve with accelerated trends in device miniaturization.
As a result, a group of scientists in applied sciences and engineering has developed
and demonstrated a proposal on an architectural solution to the problem in which engineered
thin-film active materials are integrated into flexible three-dimensional (3-D) forms.
The approach enabled efficient thermal impedance matching ..."
 "Rice University scientists have built a better
epoxy for electronic applications. Epoxy combined with ultrastiff
graphene foam invented in the Rice lab of chemist James Tour is substantially
tougher than pure epoxy and far more conductive than other epoxy composites while retaining
the material's low density. It could improve upon epoxies in current use that weaken
the material's structure with the addition of conductive fillers. The new material is
detailed in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. By itself, epoxy is an insulator,
and is commonly used in coatings, adhesives, electronics, industrial tooling and structural
composites. Metal or carbon fillers are often added for applications where conductivity
is desired, like electromagnetic shielding ..."
 "We are reaching the limits of silicon capabilities
in terms of data storage density and speed of memory devices. One of the potential next-generation
data storage elements is the
magnetic
skyrmion. A team at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute
for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), in collaboration with the University of Science
and Technology of China, have reported the discovery of small and ferroelectrically tunable
skyrmions. Published in Nature Materials, this work introduces new compelling advantages
that bring skyrmion research a step closer to application. It is envisioned that storing
memory on skyrmions - stable magnetic perturbations of whirling spins ..."
 "As the FCC digs into its latest spectrum auction,
and as T-Mobile prepares to light up 5G services on its
600 MHz spectrum, the time is right to take stock of the nation's
600 MHz landscape. The FCC's 600 MHz incentive auction of TV broadcasters' unwanted spectrum
was a noteworthy event. It was the culmination of years of work by officials at the FCC
- it initially arose from Congress' National Broadband Plan in 2010 - and it featured
'beachfront' low-band spectrum ideal for long-distance connections. Further, the auction
itself sported a unique 'reverse' auction that paid TV broadcasters for their unwanted
spectrum licenses, and then made that spectrum available to wireless carriers and others
through a traditional 'forward' auction ..."
 "Insight SiP has launched the ISP1807-LR module,
which it believes to be the first fully compliant
Bluetooth 5.0 Long Range RF module in a miniature SIP package. This
miniature BLE module (measuring only 8 x 8 x 1 mm) is based on the nRF52840 chip from
Nordic Semiconductor and represents the latest in Bluetooth 5 Long Range module technology.
It offers a Bluetooth 5 stack including long range, high throughput, advertising extensions
and improved coexistence along with IPv6 connectivity and Mesh capabilities. With these
characteristics, the ISP1807-LR module is well-equipped to form the hub of IoT solutions. ..."
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