The July 6, 2006 issue of PlanetEE's Microwaves and RF UPDATE e-newsletter contained the following article by Jack Browne, Technical Director. We appreciate Jack's encouraging remarks as we head into a marketplace served with excellence by longterm players.
The microwave industry can safely be called a "mature" industry, with many businesses exceeding 50-year lifetimes. This magazine itself will be celebrating its 45th year of operation. In all that time, one might think that the number of competitors in a given part of the microwave marketplace would diminish or at least remain stable. But in this newsletter, for example, several new companies (Keragis Corp. and PrecisionWave Corp.) have announced offerings in their respective parts of the industry, broadband amplifiers and test equipment.
This industry has grown and matured because of this entrepreneurial spirit and the willingness of clever engineers with good ideas to take a chance on a new business. Sometimes they have invested with their own funds, sometimes with help from a bank or investors, but the risk of starting a company is always great. And the industry has always shown that it can support good products and good ideas, no matter how many suppliers were competing previously in that space. For a good microwave engineer, there's always room for one more company.
Later in the newsletter is precisionWave's p1211B public product announcement...Precision Wave Builds Cellular Signal Generator
PrecisionWave Corp. entered the RF test market with their model p1211B RF signal generator for cellular testing. With 1-Hz frequency resolution from 800 to 1000 MHz and 1700 to 2200 MHz, the generator can settle within 100 Hz of a new frequency in 1 ms when operating in command list mode. The generator provides output levels from -100 to +20 dBm with 0.1-dB resolution. The accurate, low-noise source (phase noise of just -115 dBc/Hz offset 100 kHz from the carrier) provides high modulation accuracy for a variety of cellular standards, including GSM, EDGE, MACS, PHS, and WCDMA.
PrecisionWave Corp. ---> http://www.precisionwave.com/ To read the entire newsletter on the Microwaves & RF web site, click here. |
