Scholarship created
14 August, 2008
A scholarship for an advanced diploma of electronic communication engineering will be provided by Tait at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology).
RFID acquisition
30 July, 2008
Impinj has acquired Intel’s RFID operation, a business created by Intel’s New Business Initiatives incubator and which developed the R1000 RFID reader chip.
Major changes to land mobile under discussion
27 June, 2008
Major changes to land mobile frequencies and modes of operation are up for consideration in two papers released by the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) just before its RadComms conference. The two discussion papers, ‘Spectrum Options: 403-520 MHz band’ and ‘Five-year Spectrum Outlook 2009-2014’ were of particular interest to many in the audience and came in for a good deal of discussion.
Meter monitoring network
26 June, 2008
Coronis Systems and CMC Ekocon have announced a partnership to deploy Coronis wireless technology in the first large-scale automatic metering network in Eastern Europe.
Test instrument catalogue
01 June, 2008 | Supplied by: Emona Instruments Pty Ltd
The 2008 Emona Test Instruments Catalogue covers 72 pages of instrumentation and equipment for electronics, manufacturing, service and education, as well as general electrical testing and specialist electrical compliance testing.
Instruments catalogue
01 June, 2008 | Supplied by: Emona Instruments Pty Ltd
Emona Instruments has released its 2008 test instruments catalogue.
SATCOM catalogue
01 June, 2008 | Supplied by: ASD Technology Pty Ltd
ASD has released the Miteq AMFW catalogue range of SATCOM waveguide amplifiers that is claimed to offer the lowest noise figures available in an uncooled LNA in the various frequency bands associated with satellite communications.
Radio disturbance accreditation
12 May, 2008 | Supplied by: Rohde & Schwarz (Australia) Pty Ltd
Rohde & Schwarz says it has the first laboratory in Australia to be accredited to perform measurements of radio disturbance and immunity testing receivers to the AS NZS CISPR 16.1.1 . 'Radio Disturbance Measurement Apparatus' Standard.
Solar-powered recharger for mobile devices seeks local distributor
26 October, 2007
An engineer from Korea is seeking Australian and international distributors for his solar-powered mobile device rechargers, which he expects will change the way we use mobile devices.
New regional service centre opened in Singapore
15 October, 2007
Aeroflex has opened a regional service centre in Singapore that enables the Aeroflex Test Solutions (ATS) division to provide instrument service support to its users within the major growth markets in Asia.
Global distribution agreement
26 September, 2007
Electronic component distributor Digi-Key Corporation and Nearson have signed a global distribution agreement.
New distributors
23 August, 2007
Fluke Australia has announced three new distribution agreements. The newly formed Testing Equipment Solutions (TES) has been appointed the distributor of Fluke precision measurement instruments in Queensland, while NSW distribution will be handled by IPI. Triple Point Calibration (TPC) will service Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Distributor appointed
21 August, 2007
Trio Smartcal has a new role as the distributor for Agilent Technologies for Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic and Tas. Also covered will be defence accounts in SA. Trio Smartcal will sell Agilent’s ‘basic instrument’ range of general-purpose test and measurement products.
Technical support and sales centre opened
27 July, 2007
Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) has announced the official opening of its new technical sales and support centre in Warwick, England.
A series of EMC, safety and compliance courses
13 June, 2007
Euro-engineer Keith Armstrong will be in Australia-New Zealand until July 2007 to present a series of up-to-date EMC courses to industry and the public, sponsored by EMC Technologies.
