Testing is extremely important. Anytime we conduct a test, be it at the track or on a dyno, two things come to mind. One is a tech column Bob Bolles wrote a while ago about all of us being scientists.

The MPT-100 Crimp Pull Test Instrument is a portable tool for measuring ratchet-action destructive pull-type force on crimp-on coax connectors in terminated cable samples. Up to 200-lb force is ...

RF and microwave devices need to operate as part of a system. Because they are typically not 50-Ω devices, they need to be matched to the rest of the system. That requires characterization of ...