Updated September 12, 2007

The Lobby Lizard story...

You've been at work for only two weeks. The Boss doesn't even know your name. Then suddenly the phone rings. Must be a wrong number, you have no friends.

Wrong number? Worse than that, it's a microwave vendor, a lobby lizard. He's out in the lobby, he has a thousand catalogs, and he wants to know how many "asynchronous phase-locked inverters" you will be needing. You'll recognize him, he's the fat dude seating heavily in the leisure suit...

Don't panic! Tell him you are busy, but might be able to do lunch. That way, you will be able to order a few cocktails while he bores you with his product line. Don't improve his self-esteem by thanking him for lunch, the rest of us don't want you to raise the bar.

Then, deep-six all of the paper catalogs and CDs he gave you on the way back to your office, and return to Microwaves101.com, where we will put you in touch with only the best vendors (hey, they took us to Happy Hour!)

Just kidding...

Microwaves101 supporters (an elite group!)

Below are the forward-thinking supporters of Microwaves101.com.

Matrix Test Equipment offers turnkey test solutions for cross-modulation and other types of distortion measurements. They'll also help you upgrade your existing equipment. Internal modulators provide 100% square wave, 15.750 kHz and 1 kHz. Fully automated equipment racks with easy-to use software drivers are available, as well as more affordable solutions. Signal generators can accommodate 50 or 75 ohms systems, and prime power from 90 to 240 volts can be used. If your company doesn't have distortion measurement capability, Matrix Test Equipment, Inc. offers various flexible approaches to perform this service at their Middlesex NJ site, at a daily rate or for ongoing large volume testing at an affordable price per part.

Matrix Test Equipment has sponsored a Microwaves101 page on distortion measurements.

Sonnet Software Inc. of Syracuse, New York, is dedicated completely to the development of commercial EM software. They've been developing 3D planar EM software since 1983, and their software has earned a solid reputation as the world's most accurate commercial planar EM analysis package for single and multi-layer planar circuits and antennas.

Sonnet has sponsored a page on EM analysis.

ARC Technologies of Amesbury Massachusetts is the leading supplier of microwave absorbing materials for commercial and defense applications. While providing a complete range of standard absorber products, ARC Technologies also offers dielectric materials, composites, radomes, and radar absorbing structures (RAS). Contact them at (978) 388-2993 to discuss your needs. They have contributed and sponsored a three-page Microwaves101 tutorial on radar cross-section reduction, check it out!

Part one is on fundamentals of electromagnetic waves.

Part two is on radar cross-section physics.

Part three is on radar absorbers and absorption mechanism.

Auriga Measurement Systems, of Lowell, Massachusetts, provides small-signal, large signal and noise parameter modeling services, turnkey load-pull and pulsed-IV measurement systems, and general microwave design services. Whatever your design or test requirements, Auriga can provide the front end support that will allow you to concentrate on your business imperatives. Contact them at (978) 441-1117 to learn how Auriga can accelerate your time to market.

Auriga sponsors a Microwaves101 page on load-pull.

Attention, microwave virtual vendors: Microwaves101.com is becoming THE premier website for technical microwave content (>10,000 page views per day in early 2006), and we want you to share the magic by becoming a client. We'll charge you less per year than you pay per month for a tiny ad in Microwave Journal. Check out our Sponsorship page, or email Brenda for details, or heck, just pick up the phone and call her at (520) 749-0747, 8AM-5PM MST and she'll hook you up!