A technician bolts a BNC-fed antenna to a mast, runs a vibration sweep, and watches the received level flutter by a few tenths of a dB. Nothing has f...

If you are building a 5G small cell, a bench-test rack, or a satellite ground terminal, the connector at the end of the coaxial cable is usually the ...

A jumper comes off the bench, is offered up to a spectrum analyser port, and will not seat. Nothing is broken. One end is an SMA, the other a 2.4 mm;...

If you work with RF systems, you already know that VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) and return loss are two sides of the same coin. Both measure th...

The prototype is finally on the bench, and then the reminder arrives: the board's SMA port has to meet a test cable that ends in BNC, while the roof ...

You are laying out a 28 GHz phased-array board and the space between modules is barely 5 mm. A standard N-type connector will not fit, and an imprope...