Updated December 4, 2009

Attention, microwave virtual vendors: Microwaves101.com is THE premier website for technical microwave content (>10,000 page views per day, and not counting the message board). We want you to share the magic by becoming a client. Go ahead and ask a traditional microwave trade magazine how many page views their web site generates each day, and compare them to us. We'll charge you less per year than you pay per month for a tiny ad in the paper issue of Microwave Journal, which is getting thinner and thinner with each issue. 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!

Below are the forward-thinking supporters of Microwaves101.com, an elite group indeed. Thanks!

RF Connections, a woman-owned small business, is a new concept in business representation and technical consulting. Ruth Fawson, president and founder of RF Connections worked alongside some of the pioneers of the RF Connector Industry for more than 40 years and has extensive experience with RF Connector and Cable Assembly design. Ruth represented her former company’s interests at military and industry connector meetings and spearheaded QPL programs as a design engineer and project manager.

Coming soon: RF Connections ecommerce web site!

RF connections is sponsor of our microwave connector page.

Micro Metalsmiths combines many skills, and although some might say diverse, these skills and technologies form the basis of a forward looking customer orientated company.

The core technology is our investment casting foundry, this gives Micro Metalsmiths the ability to take a customers concept and achieve reality in a cost effective manner, forming complex shapes without the need for machining from solid.

Combine this with microwave design, drafting, machining and assembly skills, and the result is a microwave design and manufacturing facility ready to supply standard and customised solutions for the challenges of the RF & microwave electronics industry, into and beyond the 21st century.

Micro Metalsmiths sponsors our waveguide page.

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.

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.

The Lobby Lizard story...

Note: this story reflects how it was in the old days, when manufacturer's reps swarmed around large electronics companies, cold-calling everyone in the lobby phone book. Today with the internet, business is much easier, and sites like Microwaves101 can help you locate individuals who are truly interested in your products and not waste anyone's time, on either side of the supply chain.

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 sweating 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...