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Sam Benzacar, of Anatech Electronics, an RF and microwave filter company, has
published his April 2026 Newsletter that, along with timely news items, features
his short op-ed titled "Bell Labs in Murray Hill Celebrates." Sam, whose company
is located not far from Murray Hill, extolls the many discoveries and inventions
that took place there since its founding in 1925 as Bell Telephone Laboratories.
It was originally a subsidiary of AT&T and Western Electric, later becoming
part of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent before Nokia's acquisition in 2016.
Sam reports on the facilities' recent 100th anniversary celebration. The list of
accomplishments would will volumes. A search through the RF Cafe website will turn
up hundreds of vintage magazine articles and images pertaining to
Bell Labs. A few notable news items are included as well, like how the FDA has
removed pages on its website warning of the danger of cellphone radiation, and the
FAA possibly requiring airlines to upgrade radar altimeters due to RF interference
from planned allocation of new cellular frequencies.
A Word from Sam Benzacar - Bell Labs in Murray Hill Celebrates
 By Sam Benzacar
If you've never heard of Murray Hill, NJ, you're not alone. Even many lifetime
inhabitants of New Jersey probably have never heard of it. It's an unincorporated
community tucked inside Berkeley Heights and New Providence, with a population of
about 433, give or take a few. However, if you've traveled along its main drag,
Mountain Avenue, there's one thing you can't miss: the sprawling 1.5 million square
foot Bell Labs facility whose entrance looks something like Darth Vader's mask.
It's celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, after which it will reportedly
remain in place but with a smaller staff, as a new 370,000-square-foot facility
in New Brunswick will mostly take its place sometime between 2027 and 2008. The
event featured talks, panels, live demonstrations, and appearances by more than
a dozen Nobel laureates associated with the lab's storied history. Among the attendees
were former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, IEEE President Kathleen Cramer, serial entrepreneur
an all-around tech guru Andrea Goldsmith, and neural network pioneer and Turing
award winner Yann LeCun.
 Bell Labs Murray Hill, now owned by Nokia, created
the first transistor, established the theoretical foundations of the digital era,
discovered cosmic microwave background radiation supporting the Big Bang theory,
helped develop the laser, created the Unix operating system, and invented the charge-coupled
device. Those achievements have earned the lab 10 Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards.
The good news is that, even though the staff at Murray Hill is only one-sixth
the size it was at its peak, it will remain active, with a mission to support Nokia's
core networking business while pushing into new frontiers. Several of these emerging
efforts include developing the first cellular network for the moon and turning the
world's undersea fiber-optic cables into environmental sensor networks capable of
detecting potential damage.
The group is pursuing topological quantum computing (a less conventional but
potentially more scalable approach to building qubits), glass-based antenna chips
designed for 6G, autonomous mining systems powered by digital twins, and AI-driven
robots that can reason about physical spaces for industrial applications.
So, no matter how modern the new facility is, it simply can't replicate the one
in Murray Hill, within whose walls so many innovations came to life. Fortunately,
that work will continue.
 FDA Scrubs Cellphone Safety Pages
The Food and Drug Administration has quietly removed webpages that previously
assured the public cellphones pose no health risks, as the Department of Health
and Human Services launches a new study on cellphone radiation under Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. Kennedy has long raised alarms about cellphones as a potential source of serious
illnesses, including cancer. His concerns contrast sharply with the stance historically
taken by mainstream scientific institutions, including the FDA, which had stated
that "the weight of scientific evidence has not linked exposure to radio frequency
energy from cellphone use with any health problems." The move marks a notable shift
in the federal government's public posture on wireless technology and health.
 Regulator: T-Mobile's Starlink Satellite Ads
Are Misleading
An industry regulator has ruled T-Mobile's TV commercials featuring Billy Bob
Thornton made misleading claims about the carrier's SpaceX-powered satellite service,
dubbed T-Satellite. The National Advertising Division (NAD) investigated after AT&T
filed a complaint. NAD found that ad language implied "100% coverage everywhere
or everywhere the sky is visible. T-Satellite operates only in cellular dead zones,
not populated areas served by traditional cell towers, and is unavailable across
most of Alaska and other pockets of the country. T-Mobile proposed adding a disclaimer,
but the regulator rejected it, concluding that "any such disclosure about geographic
limitations would directly contradict the main claim" that T-Satellite works anywhere
a customer can see the sky.”
 Airlines Face $4.5 Billion Bill to Upgrade Altimeters
U.S. airlines may be forced to spend billions upgrading aircraft radio altimeters
to avoid interference from wireless networks, following the Trump administration's
decision to auction off additional spectrum to wireless carriers. The FAA has proposed
regulations requiring all radio altimeters to withstand interference from wireless
signals in neighboring spectrum bands while continuing to provide accurate altitude
readings to pilots and safety systems. The agency estimates the total retrofit cost
at $4.49 billion. The issue stems from the FCC's plan to sell off at least 100 MHz
of the 3.98 to 4.2 GHz band for terrestrial wireless use. Aircraft radio altimeters
operate in the adjacent 4.2 to 4.4 GHz band, and the FAA fears cellular transmissions
could disrupt those critical systems. Airlines would need to complete upgrades by
the time the FCC authorizes new wireless services in the Upper C-band, expected
sometime between 2029 and 2032.
 Mission Will Place Radio Telescope on Moon's
Far Side
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 2 is preparing to land a radio telescope
on the far side of the moon to listen to faint signals from the earliest days of
the universe. The payload, LuSEE-Night (Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night),
is a NASA-Department of Energy collaboration designed to make sensitive radio measurements
during the two-week lunar night. Its primary goal is to detect low-frequency radio
emissions from the early universe before the first stars and galaxies formed - signals
that are effectively inaccessible from Earth due to radio interference. The mission
will also test the premise that the lunar far side is the best radio-quiet observation
site in the inner solar system. Because the far side never faces Earth, the instrument
will communicate via a relay satellite in lunar orbit.
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About Anatech Electronics
Anatech Electronics, Inc. (AEI) specializes in the design and manufacture of
standard and custom RF and microwave filters and other passive components and subsystems
employed in commercial, industrial, and aerospace and applications. Products are
available from an operating frequency range of 10 kHz to 30 GHz and include cavity,
ceramic, crystal, LC, and surface acoustic wave (SAW), as well as power combiners/dividers,
duplexers and diplexers, directional couplers, terminations, attenuators, circulators,
EMI filters, and lightning arrestors. The company's custom products and capabilities
are available at www.anatechelectronics.com.
Contact:
Anatech Electronics, Inc.
70 Outwater Lane
Garfield, NJ 07026
(973)
772-4242
sales@anatechelectronics.com
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