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A Centigrade and Fahrenheit converter is an essential tool in the world of RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave engineering. It’s a world where temperature stability is crucial to the performance of both active and passive components, and a Centigrade and Fahrenheit converter can help ensure such stability. Whether you’re working with antennas, amplifiers, or oscillators, understanding ..

There is a wide variety of different coaxial transmission line hardware types and configurations. Hence, there are a wide range of accessories to go with these various coaxial connector, adapter, cable, and assembly arrangements. This blog covers a quick overview of a few of this, namely SMPS adapters with features such as spring loading, adapter ..

As is common in many industries, there are often internal acronyms or company part names/standards that may eventually spread to the larger industry. This is the case for some of the types of twinaxial and triaxial transmission line components, such as TRB Plug to TRB Jack Right Angle Adapters, that are present in the RF ..

When it comes to multimedia and communications, ensuring your signal runs smooth is paramount. A female to female coax adapter serves as a crucial component in achieving this, especially when you’re dealing with coaxial cable setups. Whether you’re looking to connect multiple video devices, extend a pre-existing connection, or simply need a quick fix for ..

There are several high voltage (HV) applications, such as in instrumentation, imaging inspection, medical, aerospace, and military/defense that pose the problem of connecting high voltage power supplies, signal generators, and instruments to devices-under-test (DUTs) and other equipment. High quality coaxial connectors and cables are naturally well suited to carrying low to medium voltages, and there ..

The BNC to coax cable connection is a trusted and widely used solution for transmitting video and data signals across various industries. From security systems to broadcasting, this connection type ensures high-quality signal transfer with minimal interference. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of the BNC to coax cable, its applications, and ..

Phase noise is a key specification for RF Frequency Synthesizers and RF Oscillator. Phase noise is often called phase jitter or frequency domain jitter. Jitter is the time domain analog to frequency domain phase noise. The root of phase noise is frequency instability or phase instability in a frequency source. In most RF oscillators, there ..

There are several applications and environments where it is critical to have functioning communications equipment for safety and operational purposes, but these environments expose communications equipment to extremes that are beyond the normal operating range for most common components, devices, and systems. Examples include mining, arid environment, oil and gas processing, industrial manufacturing, metal working, ..

It is often useful to have coaxial connectorized components available that are smaller than even SMA connectorized components. When this is the case, there are a few options. Namely, subminiature version B (SMB), micro coaxial connectors (MCX), micro-miniature coaxial connectors (MMCX), and other much higher frequency connectors. Since the 2.4 mm, 1.85 mm, 1.35 mm, ..

The SubMiniature version A (SMA) coaxial connector standards is one of the most common coaxial connectors standards used in an extremely wide variety of low power RF applications. The SmA standard was originally designed to only operate from DC to 12 GHz, but there are now precision variants that often reach 18 GHz to 26.5 ..