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Pasternack welcomes Mr. Tim Galla as the company’s Product Manager for Active RF Components. Tim brings 25+ years of RF components development, applications engineering and business active radio frequency product expertise to Pasternack from many of the RF/microwave industry’s most recognized names.  This new active RF components products manager has a successful track record of ..

Q: The “Internet of Things,” that is, everything being connected, will have an impact on the RF and microwave industry. Will it affect your company? A: The name Internet of Things (IoT) misses the point. It should be the “Wireless of Things” because the vast majority of applications within IoT will communicate this way. While ..

2-Way and 4-Way Broadband RF Power Combiners We just introduced broadband RF power combiners that operate up to 6 GHz to complete our power dividers/combiners category. RF power combiners are devices that combine or sum a number of RF input signals to a common output, while maintaining the characteristic impedance of the inputs. As RF, ..

Pasternack has significantly expanded our portfolio of connectorized RF amplifiers including high power amplifiers, high-rel amplifiers, broadband amplifiers, limiting amplifiers, power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers (LNAs), log amplifiers and gain blocks. Pasternack’s broad lines of coaxial amplifiers are employed across the entire spectrum of commercial and military applications including use in radar, electronic warfare, satcom, ..

New digital programmable step attenuators in 5 bit, 8 bit and 10 bit have been added. These broadband PIN diode digital step attenuators performance is up to 40 GHz depending on the configuration. Pasternack’s newly introduced programmable digital step attenuators are commonly used in electronic warfare, military and space communication systems, radar and test and ..

For the second consecutive year, Pasternack has been honored with a Supplier Excellence Award from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business. This year, Pasternack has been awarded the higher rated 4-Star Raytheon Supplier Excellence Award. Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business instituted the annual Supplier Excellence Awards program to recognize suppliers who have provided outstanding service and partnership ..

24/7 RF Support Added for Pasternack Customers Due to significant global growth and to support a wider range of domestic hours, Pasternack has extended support hours for RF related needs. We have introduced 24/7 RF support for answering questions, requesting quotes and placing orders.

New 1.85mm Terminations / Loads Capable of 1 Watt Now Available 65 GHz RF terminations / loads up to 65 GHz often used in applications such as power limiting, impedance matching and signal leveling inside RF test systems, introduced. Pasternack’s new 1.85mm RF terminations are rated to 65 GHz at 1 Watt and have a ..

New High Isolation PIN Diode RF Switches Up to 12 GHz with Isolation as High as 90 dB When signal integrity and performance are critical components of system functionality, the higher the isolation figure, the better the overall performance will be. The new high isolation PIN diode switches from Pasternack feature very high port-to-port isolation ..

Low PIM Cable Assemblies Utilizing a Hand Formable Semi-Rigid Coax Debuted Pasternack’s low PIM hand formable cable jumpers are made using a tin-filled braid that produces a hand-formable, solid outer conductor wall, making them perfect for installation into tight places. These low passive intermodulation (PIM) cable assemblies are available with two different coax diameters sizes ..