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Jack Browne

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

Articles by Jack Browne
Attenuators Hold Constant Phase
A line of 8-b digitally controlled PIN diode attenuators provides fast switching of attenuation across wide frequency ranges of 2 to 6 GHz and 6 to 18 GHz.
Armored Vehicle Repairs Represent Huge Market
Maintaining the performance of armored vehicles around the world is a growing market and a growing opportunity for any number of companies willing to invest in improving and upgrading these vehicles.
Diplexers Tackle Band-Switching Needs
Low-profile diplexers are usable in cellular communications applications at power levels to 4.5 W.
OCXOs Trim Height To 120 MHz
An oven-controlled crystal oscillator is supplied in a TO-8 housing and available with output frequencies from 8 to 120 MHz.
SDR Technology Targets Flexibility and Security
Software-defined-radio (SDR) technology is quickly being adopted in a number of commercial, industrial, and military applications through the aid of developer kits.
Choosing Optimum PLL Signal Sources
The choice of clock oscillator can play a large hand in the overall spectral performance of an RF/microwave PLL source.
Mixer Translates Signals To 32 GHz
A subharmonic mixer handles upconversion and downconversion across a frequency range of 14 to 32 GHz.
Amp Lowers Noise By A Wide Range
This packaged GaAs E-pHEMT amplifier provides respectable output power and gain with exceedingly low noise figure from 400 MHz to 3 GHz.
Synthesizer Slices Noise To 10 GHz
This compact frequency synthesizer tunes from 4 to 8 GHz using USB or SPI interface.
SDLVAs Cover Wide Bandwidths
A line of SDLVAs enable detection of low-level signals to 2 GHz.
Rack-Mount Amps Reach 1 kW at 1 GHz
A trio of rack-mount power amplifiers provides as much as 1-kW output power through 1 GHz.
OCXOs Hold Stable Frequencies
These precision OCXOs are available in a variety of compact housings for output frequencies to 120 MHz with low phase noise.
Agilent Is Not Just Test Equipment
Several new software packages aid designers at commercial and military circuit and system levels.
Peregrine Licenses Switches To Murata
A collaborative agreement allows Murata Manufacturing Co. to produce integrated-circuit (IC) switches based on Peregrine Semiconductor’s proprietary UltraCMOS technology.
Coaxial Adaptors Put Down PIM
A new line of low-PIM coaxial adaptors from San-Tron is able to drop PIM to levels of -170 dBc and less.

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