Microwave and Communications Specialists


America's first microwave representative group, serving Southern California since 1962

Los Angeles Office
7650 Haskell Ave., Suite D
Van Nuys, CA 91406-2047
Tel: (818) 778-1140
Fax: (818) 781-3887

David Kelley, President
Cell: (310) 493-0421
E-mail: dkelley@rfassociates.com
Covering Los Angeles County,
  Orange County (north of the 22 Freeway),
and Kern, Ventura, Santa Barbara,
San Luis Obispo, and San Bernardino Counties

San Diego Office
3185 Monroe St.
Carlsbad, CA 92008-1135
Tel and Fax: (760) 729-0885
Cell: (760) 845-8689

Wayne Dewey, WD6AHX, Vice President
E-mail: wdewey@rfassociates.com
Covering San Diego County, Imperial County,
Orange County (south of the 22 Freeway),
and Riverside County


Attention microwave and communications product manufacturers: We invite you to contact us about being your representative in the dynamic Southern California market. We are experienced RF engineers, eager to assist customers in specifying your products for their requirements.


Representing (in Southern California)...


AlcatelFerrocom

Isolators and circulators covering 132 MHz to 40 GHz. Packaging available in stripline, waveguide, drop-in, and isodaptor. Available from narrow-band models to units with greater than octave bandwidths. Coaxial and waveguide circulators rated at 20 watts forward and reverse average power. Coaxial isolators rated at 10 watts reverse power with adequate heat sinking. Waveguide isolators rated at 3 watts average reverse power. Many applications with peak power levels up to 2 kW and CW levels up to 500 watts. Magnetically shielded and RFI shielded. Standard SMA or Type N coaxial connectors may be captivated or removable, male or female. Tab connectors available for stripline applications. MIL-I-45208A.

link to...ALCATEL FERROCOM


AML Communications Inc.

Microwave amplifiers for defense, wireless, and optical applications, including high-intercept amplifiers, monopulse tracking, receive multicouplers, subsystems/front ends, cellular/PCS receive amplifiers, wireless local loop, two-way messaging, limiting amplifiers, and OC-192 clock recovery.

link to...AML COMMUNICATIONS INC.


Antenna Research Associates

HF/VHF/UHF/microwave antennas for surveillance and DF applications, including omnidirectional (biconicals, dipoles, conical monopoles, monopoles/whips, electric-field broadband, superturnstiles, and crossed loops), directional (parabolic reflectors, helicals, horns, log periodics, yagis, magnetic fields, tuned HF Miniloops, untuned loops, network arrays, and spirals), hemispherical coverage, GPS, microstrip patch, flush-mounted, telemetry beacon, DF, and search and surveillance systems. Antenna analyzer, HF antenna couplers and multicouplers, rotators/positioners/controllers, polarization rotators and positioners, telescopic pneumatic masts, fiberglass adjustable-height antenna masts and towers, tripods, and individually calibrated antennas and accessories for EMI/EMC/TEMPEST testing.

link to...ANTENNA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES


ARA Technologies

EMC test antennas, amplifiers, E- and H-field probes, masts and turntables, test equipment, accessories, antenna calibration, and EMC/EMI engineering services.

link to...ARA TECHNOLOGIES


Coaxant, Inc.

RF cable assemblies, including very low cost conformable SMA cable assemblies with low insertion loss and low VSWR up to 18 GHz. Custom RF and microwave connectors, especially replacements for obsolete parts.

link to...COAXANT, INC.


EDO Electronic Systems Group

Down converters, synthesizers, filters, low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, RF switches, fiber-optic products, and thin-film products.  Services including RF/microwave integrated components, RF surface-mount assemblies, thin-film products, RF/microwave manufacturing, and environmental testing.

link to...EDO ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS GROUP


W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Blindmate/push-on connectors and adapters, including SMP and SMPM connectors (shrouds, bullets, tools), SMP/SMPM test adapters, and cable-mounted connectors.

link to...W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC.


Kanthal Globar

Noninductive bulk ceramic resistors, varistors, and thermistors. Maxcap multifarad double-layer capacitors.

link to...KANTHAL GLOBAR


Maxsys Technologies Ltd.

Turnkey solutions for electronic and software engineering, functional automated test and measurement, electronic systems, build-to-print services, RF/wireless systems and products, and data acquisition. Industries served include military/aerospace, commercial manufacturing, industrial, biomedical, automotive, and aircraft.

link to...MAXSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.


Microwave Device Technology Corp.

GaAs semiconductors including Gunn, abrupt and hyperabrupt varactor, IMPATT, PIN, multiplier, ISIS, and Schottky barrier diodes. Microwave and millimeter-wave components (18 to 110 GHz) including Gunn oscillators, VCOs, and transceivers. Passive components (18 to 36 GHz) including waveguide ferrite isolators and circulators. Low-cost commercial sources and sensors including X-band, K-band, and Ka-band Gunn oscillators, VCO transceivers, detectors, and X-band and K-band horn and planar-array antennas.

link to...MICROWAVE DEVICE TECHNOLOGY CORP.


Microwave Power Inc.

Solid-state microwave amplifiers from 1 to 40 GHz with 10 mW to 500 W output. Broadband and high power, and also narrow-band with high power, as well as medium-power, wide-band, low-noise units. High-power TWT replacement  solid-state amplifiers. Rack-mounted or connectorized modules.

link to...MICROWAVE POWER INC.


Paciwave, Inc.

Custom microwave components and subsystems, including custom assemblies, detector log video amplifiers, PIN limiters, PIN attenuators, PIN switches, switch matrices, and millimeter-wave components.

link to...PACIWAVE, INC.


RLC Electronics, Inc.

Passive components, including mechanical coaxial switches (to 12 positions, and QPL), surface-mount switches, filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, band-reject), attenuators, terminations, directional couplers, power dividers/combiners, detectors, and bias tees.

Link to...RLC ELECTRONICS, INC.


Seavey Engineering / ARA

Antennas for microwave systems such as mobile satellite, DBS, VSATs, ship earth stations, and LEO and GEO user terminals, WLAN, digital millimeter-wave radios, wireless handheld terminals, RFID, etc. Feeds, components, antenna subsystems, and antenna and radome testing services.

link to...SEAVEY ENGINEERING / ARA


Special Hermetic Products, Inc.

Glass-to-metal seals, dielectric bushings, feedthrus (RF and DC, K and V connector types, straight barrel, and TFE), ground pins (solderable feedthru and external types), capacitor feedthrus, multipin hermetic connectors, hermetic headers (DC and capacitive), solder preforms (tin-based, washer, and multihole), soldering fixtures (flanged, spark plug, and multipin), microwave packages, and solder, braze, and glass-sealing services.

Link to...SPECIAL HERMETIC PRODUCTS, INC.


Techtrol Cyclonetics, Inc.

Techtrol Cyclonetics low-noise, low-spurious, high-coherence microwave sources including crystal-controlled and phase-locked oscillators, phase-locked and discrete-frequency microwave multipliers, noise calibration instruments and standards, and legacy-equipment repair.

Link to...TECHTROL CYCLONETICS, INC.


Terabeam/HXI

Millimeter-wave components from 18 to 140 GHz, including mixers (balanced, double-balanced, harmonic, and balanced up-converters), low-noise and medium/high-power amplifiers, frequency multipliers, CW and VCO Gunn oscillators, phase-locked oscillators, waveguide isolators and circulators, PIN-diode switches and attenuators, and waveguide detectors. Custom subsystems using waveguide, microstrip, and MMICs.

Link to...TERABEAM/HXI



Last updated: November 14, 2007