R. A. Wood Associates QuickNews

New Computer Automated RF Test Station developed and delivered

We designed and developed a Computer Automated RF Test Station for one of our customers. The Computer Automated RF Test Station is capable of testing 4 different RF and RF/digital modules, but is flexible enough to test many possible RF modules. The Test Stations were built and tested at R. A. Wood Associates. Computer automated test software was also developed to test the 4 different modules using LabVIEW. RFSpecTest was used in a "scripted" mode to perform all RF tests. More information about the Computer Automated RF Test Station is available at this link.

New RF Receiver Simulator Delivered

We delivered a wideband RF/microwave Receiver Simulator to one of our clients on March 1. The simulator was designed to simulate the front end of an RF/Microwave system. Frequency coverage went from HF to SHF Ka Band. The simulator was required to have very low noise figures and very high intercept points/compression points. The unit was delivered in 6 months after order. More information is available at this link location.

We are still having problems with our domain server :-(

Hello Everybody
We have been having more problems with our domain server from our Internet Service Provider. Yesterday (2-1-2005) and today we had outages, which affected our WWW site as well as our e-mail accounts. To resolve this problem, we are going to switch over to a new server this weekend after Friday PM. Our site will be "resolving" over the weekend, and hopefully will be back up during the weekend. We really apologize for the inconvenience this has caused everybody, and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Bob Wood

Our domain server was down from ~6:00 PM 1-25-2005 to ~2:30 PM 1-26-2005

Hello,
Our domain server was down from about 6:00 PM on 1-25-2005 to about 2:30 PM on 1-26-2005. This problem occurred with our Internet service provider. All our email accounts were out and our WWW sight was down over this period. Everything is up now. If you tried to email us during that time, please email us again. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks Bob Wood

Happy Holidays to Everyone!

We would like to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, and a prosperous New Year. To those we've had the pleasure of working with this past year, whether it was in one of our courses, or someone who has made use of our software products, or someone we've supported with our engineering consulting services: we would like to thank you for allowing us the opportunity to work with you. We hope we were able to make your life easier in some way, and improve your productivity. Thank you for letting us help you!
Sincerely, Bob Wood

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R. A. Wood Associates at MTT Symposium

R. A. Wood Associates demonstrated our RFSpecTest software product at MTT Symposium in Philadelphia, PA during June 10-12, 2003. See our Press Release for more info.

R. A. Wood Associates Demonstrated Computer Automated RF Test Software Suite at NI Week Aug 13-16, 2002 in Austin, Texas:

R. A. Wood Associates introduced their latest computer automated RF test software suite, RFSpecTest, at National Instruments (NI) Week, August 13-16. See Press release. The test software suite is centered around NI's latest RF product, the NI 5660 Spectrum Analyzer. Automated testing for gain, two tone intermodulation products, gain compression, relative measurements, and others was demonstrated for amplifiers, mixers, switches, filters, attenuators, RF integrated circuits and more. Thanks to all who stopped by to see our new product! A picture of our booth and computer automated test setup at NI Week. For an overview of the of RFSpecTest, select this link (1.7 MB pdf file).

MetalTest Systems available

We have developed a computer automated Metal Tester for testing metals using thermo-electric measurements from an Acromag meter, a PC A/D converter board, and LabVIEW software. For more information, go to this page.