Our 2000th HPOI Microwave Tuner was delivered!
In honor of the Y2K scare that was supposed to cause major world chaos on 12:00 AM, Jan 1, 2000, we have named this Tuner the "Millennium Edition", and have certified that it is Y2K complaint!
Serial Number 1969 of our microwave tuners has been readied for shipment. In honor of the iconic year of 1969, a great moment in our history where 400,000 people attended a 4 day music festival called Woodstock with 34 of the greatest artists of the time, we are naming SN1969 the Woodstock Edition Microwave Tuner!
We received orders for QTY 268 Microwave Tuners for FY20. This is the result of our committment to keep our costs under control, and continuing to deliver quality products to our customer and ultimately for the US military.
Hi Everyone!
We are marking the 1500th Microwave Tuner in production, showing Serial Number 1500 here. Congrats to our great team for working hard to get us to this amazing milestone!
We are still going strong manufacturing and shipping these now and for the forseeable future.
R. A. Wood Associates received an order for 268 Microwave Tuners for FY19. This will bring our total orders to over 1500 Microwave Tuners, resulting in over 3000 digital/signal conditioning boards, and over 12,000 packaged microwave assemblies being assembled and tested at our facility, all with on-time delivery and keeping costs under control.
We are excited to anounce that our 1000th Microwave Tuner is in burn-in and getting ready to be shipped! What a great accomplishment for our amazing team!
We've shown our customers that we can deliver a quality product at production rates, and meet their delivery schedules. I'd like to personally thank them for giving us the opportunity to meet their expectations. Thank You! Bob Wood
More exciting news that shows our continued comittment to our customers and the critical program these tuners are being used on.
After a difficult negotiation to make significant cost reductions, we received an order for 212 microwave tuners. We will be delivering these at an increased rate of 24 per month. The 2 slot VME wide band microwave tuner is shown here being tested in our portable microwave test station.
We've received another production order for wideband Microwave Tuners. We will be delivering these at a rate of 17/month.
Another endorsement of our quality, great design, and determination to maintain low cost for our customer.
Another 13 of our state of the art high dynamic range Microwave Tuners (with integrated synthesizers) are getting ready to be shipped (on time) to one of our customers. The shipment includes our 100th production Tuner, a very exciting milestone!
For more information, download the RCT0017 product sheet.
We are currently under contract to build 109 high dynamic range Wideband Tuners/Quad Converters over the next year. These devices feature:
- The highest dynamic range microwave tuners in the industry
- Maximum use of surface mount RF/Microwave assemblies for frequencies up to 18 GHz
- 4 output IF bands to provide 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth
We are bringing all our computer automated test software and hardware design expertise into this program to maximize our productivity and provide the lowest cost product to our customer.
This is the improved RCT0017B Wideband Tuner/Quad Converter, which is the result of 18 months of development improvements from our original RCT0017 model.
Our Wideband Down Converter and Up Converter pair offer:
- Frequency Coverage: 6 - 18 GHz
- For applications employing Digital RF Memories (DRFM's) for coherent electronic countermeasures
- Coherent system synchronized to a 100 MHz reference
- Independent synthesizers in Down and Up Converters
- Can be configured as independent Down and Up Converters, or as a coherent set for countermeasures or similar applications
- Control and Status: VME A24 D32
Down Converter Features:
- Single Unit Form Factor: 6U 2 Slot Design
- Input Dynamic Range: -60 to +2 dBm
- Input 1 dB Compression Point: >+6 dB
- Noise Figure: 21 dB
- Gain: 10 dB average
- Phase Noise: -146 dBc/Hz @ >20 MHz Offset
- Second IF's: Four outputs at 750 MHz, 375 MHz wide, providing 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth
- Designed to drive 1 GHz Digitizers linearly up to +12 dB
Up Converter Features:
- Four inputs at 750 MHz, 375 MHz wide, providing 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth across 6 - 18 GHz
- Form Factor: VME 6U 2 Slot Design
- High Input Dynamic Range: -55 to 0 dBm
- Phase Noise: -146 dBc/Hz @ >20 MHz offset
- Tuning Speed: 1 uSec
- Noise Figure: 31.5 dB max
- Input 1 dB Compression Point: >+2 dBm
- Gain: 1 dB average
We designed and built for production a 4 channel Quad Converter. Our Quad Converter design features:
- 2 Input IF's from 2.2-5.3 GHz, available simultaneously
- Output IF's: 4 outputs at 750 MHz, 375 MHz wide, providing 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth across the input IF's
- Control and Status: VME Interface A24 D32 and UART Serial Interface
- Designed to drive 4 1 GHz Digitizers linearly up to +12dBm
- 5 custom surface mount RF assemblies mounted to an aluminum plate
- Separate multilayer circuit board accommodates power conditioning, FPGA signals and VME interfacing
- Form Factor: VME 6U 1 Slot Design
- RF Connector Interface: SMA
This is a very complex design with very high density surface mount assemblies. Surface mount assemblies are built using pick and place machines at a contract manufacturer. Automated RF test rack, fixtures and software has been designed at R. A. Wood Associates.