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Times Microwave Systems announces the availability of MSHA (Mining, Safety and Health Administration) approved RF cables. The LMR®-FR series of cables will now be marked with an additional MSHA qualification reference number, and can now be used in mining applications where MSHA approvals are required.

CSR announced that is has shipped its billionth Bluetooth chip. CSR’s BlueCore silicon is found in every tier one mobile handset maker and its silicon is in other market leading products. CSR’s Bluetooth silicon is designed into approximately 60% of all Bluetooth qualified products

Smiths Interconnect, part of the global technology company Smiths Group, today announces that one of its businesses, Sabritec, has successfully passed qualification testing of its Size 16 ARINC 801 terminus for single and multi-mode applications. For complete qualification test results visit: www.sabritec.com/ARINC801Qual.pdf.
 

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A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations
By Daniel Fleisch
This short (144 pages) book is intended to help engineering and physics students understand the mathematics behind all radio and light waves—Maxwell’s Equations. The author, a professor at Wittenbeg University, is involved in radar systems, including radar cross section meaurement and ground-penetrating radar. The book combines the mathematical repesentations with a discussion that includes both intuitive, plain-language explanations of the properties represented and insights into the development of each equation. Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org
 

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