Ban Ni-Cads now and protect the planet
11 November, 2005 by Martin Cahill, Regional Director, Pacific Wireless Communications | Supplied by: Pacific Wireless Communications Pty Ltd
Many of us dedicate our working lives ensuring the health and safety of society, or we support those who put themselves on the line, day in day out, because we value the security they provide to our communities
Ensuring the best use of spectrum
11 November, 2005
The CSIRO is using some of the latest radio technologies to ensure that the most is made of the spectrum and that users are given the high-speeds of data transmission that they want
Putting rail back on track
11 October, 2005
While Australia's railways continue to be riddled by different, often incompatible communications systems, the efficiency and continued development of the network are at risk. Antoine Rouot of Nortel discusses a new digital radiocommunications system.
Voltage regulators
01 September, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.adilam.com.au/
The power electronics division of C&D Technologies has released three high-efficiency step-down voltage regulators that are pin- and size-compatible with older and less efficient LM78xx devices.
Dual power supplies
01 September, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.nilsen.com.au/
The Toellner 895x range of dual output power supplies, with 400 W output, covers voltages and currents of: 2 x 0-40 V, 2 x 0-10 A - TOE 8952-40; 2 x 0-60 V, 2 x 0-7 A - TOE8952-60; 2 x 0-80 V, 2 x 0-5 A - TOE 8952-80.
Range doubled
26 July, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.rsaustralia.com/
RS Components has added 22,000 new products into its Extended Range.
5.8GHz solid parabolic antennas
26 July, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.pacsat.com.au/
PacSat Antennas has just launched its new range of 5.8GHz solid parabolic dishes. Solid dishes have a number of advantages over parabolic grids - particularly in high traffic environments:
Parabolic antennas
26 July, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.pacsat.com.au/
PacSat Antennas has launched a range of 5.8 GHz solid parabolic dishes. Solid dishes have a number of advantages over parabolic grids - particularly in high traffic: better front-to-back ratio (greater immunity to interference); more uniform and narrower beam-width; more robust than panel-type equivalent.
Satellite comms network
26 July, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.ascs.com.au/
The TSAT 2150 satellite communications network offers remote control, monitoring and data collection within SCADA networks.
UHF CB GPS handheld
27 April, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.uniden.com.au/
Using GPS and UHF, the GPS205 enables the user to send, receive and navigate a position to a friend, communicate up to 6 km and provide a level of nationwide protection.
Beamwidth antennas
27 April, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.rfs.com.au/
Three broadband 90° beamwidth mobile antennas have joined Radio Frequency Systems' optimiser family.
Enhanced battery
27 April, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.logicenergy.co.nz/Home
By enhancing the design of the Tait Orca battery contacts, using a modern flexi PCB and high grade cells and plastics, end users now have access to an improved battery for the Orca portable radio.
PCI digitiser
27 April, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.emona.com.au/
Gage Applied Technologies has released a digitiser for the PCI platform.
Monitoring and sequencing supply voltages - Part 2
11 April, 2005 by Joe Chong & Jay Scolio, Maxim Integrated Products | Supplied by: Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
For most electronic systems, monitoring system voltages with a power-on reset (POR) ensures proper initialisation at power-up
PCI digitiser
31 March, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.emona.com.au/
Gage Applied Technologies has released a digitiser for the PCI platform. Operating at 200 MS/s (5 ns sampling intervals) with a resolution of 14 bits, the CompuScope 14200 is a general-purpose digitiser aimed at satisfying precision signal capture requirements in various fields of scientific and commercial research, development, as well as manufacturing test applications.
