RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a high-performance, ruggedized L1 antenna designed for GPS receivers, manpack, hand-held, and small form factor radio systems. The Southwest Antennas 1027-010 offers key product features including a quadrifilar helical antenna design, excellent axial ratio, compact size, and light weight (1.5 ounces). The 1027-010 has a maximum gain of 1.5dBic and both horizontal and vertical beam width are 140 degrees. These features make the antenna capable of receiving a clear GPS signal even in very congested and noisy RF environments. An integrated 3.42 inch RF coaxial gooseneck allows the GPS antenna to be…
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RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for XMA Corp’s 8582-6150-xx series of 2.4mm, 50 GHz Attenuators. The XMA coaxial attenuators are available in standard dB values of 3, 6, 10, 20 and 30 dB and handle up to 1 Watt of power. The 50 GHz attenuators are in stock at RFMW and are ready to ship the same day. Part # Value (dB) Frequency VSWR Operating Temp. 0-26.5GHz 26.5-40GHz 40-50GHz Degrees C 8582-6150-03 3 DC – 50GHz 1.35:1 1.60:1 1.75:1 -55 to +100 8582-6150-06 6 DC – 50GHz 1.35:1 1.60:1 1.75:1 -55 to +100 8582-6150-10 10 DC – 50GHz…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for Qorvo’s QPC9314. The QPC9314’s PIN-diode based switch can handle 52 Watts of average power with an LTE signal (8 dB PAR) and contains two LNA stages, and a 1-bit DSA to provide a high and low gain mode. Further integration of this module is implemented with a switch driver and DC-DC converter circuit meaning the module needs only an external 5V power supply and 3.3V control logic for the switch and gain control mode. Spanning 2.3 – 2.7GHz, this module provides 1.2 dB noise figure in receive mode operation and 0.5 dB…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for an integrated Front End Module (iFEM) designed for Wi-Fi applications. Qorvo’s QPF7200 integrates a 2.4GHz power amplifier, bypassable transmit BAW filter, LNA with bypass function and receive coexistence BAW filter into a single module measuring 8 x 5.5mm. Integration of key Tx/Rx functions reduces part count and shrinks PC board designs. The QPF7200 reduces BOM count by >25 components versus discrete designs yet provides +25dBm while maintaining spectral compliance. Gain is measured at 36dB which reduces the power required from an SoC transceiver chip. Receive gain is 12dB with low noise figure…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for an ultra low-noise amplifier with integrated bypass function. The Qorvo QPL9095 offers 0.6dB noise figure and operates from 500 to 1000MHz. With 22dB of gain, the QPL9095 provides 33dBm OIP3 in LNA mode and 35dBm OIP3 in Bypass mode. Internally matched, only 4 external components are needed for operation from a single +3.3 to +5V supply. Targeted for wireless infrastructure applications, it’s packaged as a 2x2mm DFN.
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a broad bandwidth, GaN, solid state power amplifier from Aethercomm. Model Number SSPA 0.020-6.000-10 operates from 20MHz to 6GHz and delivers 5 to 10 Watts (typ.) of saturated output power for broad band jamming and communication system platforms. Typical small signal gain is up to 50dB with gain flatness of +/-4dB. Operating from a +28V supply drawing 1.17A in class AB operation, the SSPA 0.020-6.000-10 is offered in a modular housing that is approximately 2.5″ (W) by 6.4″ (L) by 1.00″ (H). Typical OIP3 levels are 37 to 43 dBm (two 30dBm…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for dipole antennas with integrated internal bandpass filtering. The Southwest Antennas’ 1001-139 includes a 3-pole, bandpass filter to reduce interference from co-located radios operating outside the antenna’s 2.1 to 2.5GHz operational frequency range. The half-wave dipole antenna has a gain of 2.15dBi and comes equipped with black chrome, TNC connector. The internal filter can handle 8W CW RF power. The 1001-139 antenna is easily installed and removed from field equipment and is ideal for handheld video receivers, portable radio systems or any other mobile communication platform.
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for Smiths Interconnect “Outrigger” resistors. Patented technology allows 4 to 12 X power handling over conventional 0402 and 0603 size resistors for RF circuits up to 27 GHz. Outrigger resistors come standard in 50 and 100 ohm resistances with available values from 10 to 500 ohms for customer specific applications where increased power dissipation is critical. The CRH04091005F is a 100 ohm resistor capable of handling 1 Watt CW and up to 10 Watts of pulsed RF power yet measures only 1.02 x 2.29mm. Optimized for new designs using coplanar waveguide transmission lines,…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a balanced amplifier module with embedded hybrid couplers. The Qorvo QPA9807 offers single ended input and output ports with very good return loss and incorporates and enable pin to shut down the amplifier for improved receive sensitivity. Ideal as the output stage in a macrocell transceiver board connecting to the high power amplifier (HPA) board through a long cable or microstrip trace, OIP3 is 40.3dBm. The QPA9807 operates over 2300 to 2700MHz to cover the 3GPP Bands 7, 30, 38, 40, and 41 with 20dB of gain and 24.7 dBm output power.…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for MECA Electronics microwave and millimeter-wave isolators. Optimized for excellent performance across K, Ku, and Ka bands, these 2 Watt isolators cover 18.0-26.5GHz, 27.0-31.0GHz & 26.5-40.0GHz. The MECA IK-29.000 epitomizes performance with typical insertion loss of 0.5dB and 20dB minimum isolation. Connectors are 2.92mm female in passivated stainless steel. Operating temperature for the IK-29.000 is specified from -20 to +65 degrees C.