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Alpha Micro and The Antenna Company have signed an agreement to distribute cellular and short range connectivity produces in the UK and Ireland. Described as a strategic partnership and distribution agreement, the two companies will collaborate to reduce time to market for products in development, said wireless connectivity specialist, Alpha Micro. The Antenna Company is headquartered in the Netherlands and ...

TI announced a 77GHz automotive radar for automated driving today at CES in Las Vegas. Called AWR2544 and made on 45 nm RFCMOS, it is aimed, for example, at vehicles with a radar at each corner that use ‘satellite’ rather than the more locally demanding ‘edge’ vehicle architecture, according to the company. With edge architecture, the radar will perform Doppler ...

Novocomms, the RF antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has unveiled NovoSat – a lightweight, dual-port, L Band antenna. Featuring high performance GNSS capability, the company highlights, it is also described as being ideal for high density environments, “urban canyons” and rugged terrains. The company writes: “The new antenna also performs well in poor weather conditions, thanks to its high gain, ...

West Midlands-based Kasdon Electronics is to supply 180,000 PCB assembles for the giant SKA-Low radio telescope, to be built in Australia. The two year contact is with Italian receiver maker Sirio Antenne. “Sirio Antenne is a developer of high-quality antennas, and they were picked to design and manufacture the antennas used in the SKA-Low observation product,” according to Kasdon. “After ...

Novocomms, the UK antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has announced it is restructuring as part of growth plans for the next five years, including the establishment of three manufacturing divisions. The plans have the potential to create up to 300 new jobs in Birmingham, said the company. Note that we have already previously reported on 100 of these in June. Operating ...

Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand can’t quite point to a patch of free space and measure any microwave field that exists there, but they almost can. In a proof of concept, they positioned a passive glass sensing capsule up to 30m away from novel type of reader, and then interrogated the cell with lasers. “Importantly, compared ...

Vehicle manufacturers have long dreamt of reducing weight by replacing heavy wiring looms with radio frequency technology. However, achieving this wireless nirvana is not as simple as it first appears, writes Sampson Hu, founder of UK antenna specialist Novocomms. One of the heaviest sub-systems in most vehicles, wiring harnesses can weigh in at around 150lbs, creating a major headache for ...

Orbital Composites, an in-space robotic manufacturing specialist, has won a $1.7m U.S. Space Force contract, to further “the development of In-space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) of antennas”. Collaborating with Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman, and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Orbital will be working on two applications: Satellite-Based Cellular Broadband (SBCB) and Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). Large antennas are needed for ...

Novocomms, the UK antenna design specialist, is expanding its operations in Birmingham following a successful “multi-million pound” funding round. Specifically, the company is set to hire additional engineers and salespeople, move to new offices and create 100 jobs by September 2025. Up to 30 of these roles are expected to be created in the next six months, it says. The ...

Linx Technologies is aiming at sub-6GHz 5G New Radio, LTE, LTE-M and NB-IoT with a range of flexible stick-on antennas. Measuring 120 x 20mm, “ANT-5GW-FPC antennas provide a ground plane-independent dipole,” according to the company, which is now part of TE Connectivity. “The flexibility and adhesive backing make the series easier to mount in RF-transparent – for example plastic – ...