Microwave Marketing

Comnav "A taste of Maine" Rep Day 2009

 

After surviving the arduous MTT week, MM staff were treated to a great last day in the States; courtesy of Comnav and the delights of Portland,Maine.

Mission Sattement :  ComNav Engineering Inc. is commited to to the manufacture of custom RF/Microwave components better, faster, and cheaper than our competition. By creating an employee centered environment that provides fullfilling, and challenging opportunities, and an unlimited potential for growth, our customers will be better served, and our investors will receive better than adequate returns.

 

 

From Technology ....Dionysis Update from the President: The software is and will probably always be a work in progress. With the new release of version 1,10, there are some bug fixes and new capabilities added over previous versions. As far as bugs go,there was an issue with a couple of dialog boxes locking up due to circular calculations going awry when data limits were exceeded, the reference on some of the plots were misplaced and some the outline drawings were mis-calculated. I also fixed the file pointers and the email routines. These issues have been fixed Some new features added are 1.5 mm and 18 mm ceramic filters, a couple new Q3 dielectrics were added and the ceramic Q This year ComNav is continuing to leverage our new hardware and software capabilities into a wider product range. This wider product range is a strong investment in our future direction of more technical products with high performance. We have invested in a CNC lathe that allows to quickly prototype and build a wide variety of new components for our products including TEM cavity resonators and TE pedestals. This reduces our turnaround time, improves design flexibility, and allows us to provide superior customer service on these products. We’re now working on several new R&D projects to further expand our product line. One is a surface mount TE pill design that we’re developing through our partnership with Q3 Laboratories. Another new design involves adding cleanup lowpass filters built into carrier boards to increase wideband rejection for a modest increase in size. By simulating the response in CST we are able to investigate a much calculations are much more accurate due to curve fitting tons of real data. In addition I realized the help files didn’t work in Vista since Microsoft not longer includes the help engine. I have added the Microsoft help complier to the set up files and running that oncewill set up Vista to run the older style windows help files. Marty

 

From Engineering......This year ComNav is continuing to leverage our new hardware and software capabilities into a wider product range. This wider product range is a strong investment in our future direction of more technical products with high performance. We have invested in a CNC lathe that allows to quickly prototype and build a wide variety of new components for our products including TEM cavity resonators and TE pedestals. This reduces our turnaround time, improves design flexibility, and allows us to provide superior customer service on these products. We’re now working on several new R&D projects to further expand our product line. One is a surface mount TE pill design that we’re developing through our partnership with Q3 Laboratories. Another new design involves adding cleanup lowpass filters built into carrier boards to increase wideband rejection for a modest increase in size. By simulating the response in CST we are able to investigate a much wider variety of designs. Our 20 GHz analyzer is seeing more usage, and we want to continue to develop more high-frequency products that provide high performance at reasonable cost. As we push ceramic technology to 9GHz and beyond, we’re overcoming a wide range of technical challenges for our customers. With this growth in our products and capabilities we’re poised for a strong, exciting year for ComNav. Kirk Riley, PhD VP Engineering

 

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