Industry Analysts Foresee Market Shakeup as Bidding for Canada’s Spectrum Slows After six weeks of aggressive bidding that will bring over C$4.2 billion to Ottawa’s coffers, Industry Canada’s auction is on the verge of drawing to a close with only a handful of licenses in the far north still in contention. (As we prepared the eNews, round 221 of bidding was underway.) Telecom … [Read more...]
Industry Reacts to JAMA Article on Possible RFID Hazards to Medical Electronics
As regular eNews readers may recall, a Dutch study on RFID tags and medical equipment published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicated that the radio frequency emissions from these tags could have unintended and dangerous consequences by interfering with vital medical devices. Electrical interference was found to alter the rates of ventilators that … [Read more...]
German Study Finds No Evidence of Health Risk from Cell Phone Use
The Berlin-based Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, or BfS) found no adverse effects associated with the use of mobile phones. German Environmental Minister Sigmar Gabriel, at left, announced that more than 50 studies carried out from 2002 to 2008 by the German Mobile Telecommunications Program had found no evidence that mobile phones or … [Read more...]
Ofcom Engages Spectral Analysis Firm To “Map” Spectrum
UK communications regulator Ofcom has engaged Cambridge Radio Frequency Services (CRFS) for a project that involves a detailed mapping of spectrum in the UK. The project will help the agency to put together a detailed picture of radio spectrum used in key frequency bands (100 MHz to 5 GHz). CRFS will use the RFeye, its real-time spectrum monitoring system to gather the spectrum … [Read more...]
UK-Based Smiths Group Buys Australian RF Filter Products Firm
British engineering and electronics firms Smiths Group has bought Triasx Pty Ltd, a Brisbane-based wireless communications components manufacturer, from private owners for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Triasx expands Smiths’ Interconnects microwave business and adds the design and development of complex radio frequency filter products for the wireless communications … [Read more...]
NTS Wins Approval for Wireless Testing to USB 1.0 Specification
National Technical Systems Inc. (NTS) has announced that it has been approved by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) as an Independent Test Lab (ITL) to perform testing for products based on the Wireless USB 1.0 Specification. Wireless USB combines the best of wired USB with a short-range wireless communications protocol. Based on the WiMedia Alliance’s Ultra-Wideband (UWB) … [Read more...]
Mark Bloom Joins Milmega as Design Engineering Manager
As of July 1, 2008 Mark Bloom is the new Design Engineering Manger at Milmega Limited in the UK. Mark joined Milmega from Ubidyne, Inc. in the United States and brings extensive experience in the power amplifier design and manufacture for the wireless communications industry. Additionally, he has a strong working knowledge of wide bandgap. Learn more at the Milmegawebsite. … [Read more...]
Rainford EMC Systems' Perren Announces an Agreement with Wavecontrol
Garry Perren of UK-based Rainford EMC Systems has an agreement announced with distribution firm Wavecontrol for the countries of Spain and Portugal. This distributon agreement is for Wavecontrol to represent and support Rainford EMC’s growing EMC shielding and anechoic business. Perren stated “This is a great opportunity for both companies. We are constantly expanding our … [Read more...]
Spread-Spectrum Oscillator Limits EMI
The VSS4 spread-spectrum oscillator from Vectron International meets FCC restrictions on permissible levels of EMI for a range of communications systems and consumer electronics applications. The VSS4 offers a frequency range of 12 MHz to 168 MHz and operates in the 140- to 85-degree C temperature range. The oscillator operates off 3.3 volts and comes with an enable/disable … [Read more...]
Chip Combines All EMI Filtering and ESD Protection for All Handset Speaker and Microphone Channels
The new EMIF06-AUD01F2 from STMicroelectronics implements complete EMI filtering and ESD protection for all handset speaker and microphone channels. The EMIF06-AUD01F2 eliminates audible handset demodulation noise by achieving -25 dB attenuation through the stop-band 800 – 2480 MHz, using high density 1.3-nF PZT (lead, zirconate titanate) capacitors on the microphone lines. It … [Read more...]
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