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How to Select the Best Settings for Mesh Rider Radios
Setting up a private wireless network using Doodle Labs Mesh Rider Radios means selecting the appropriate frequency band, channel, and channel width...
Announcing: Cyntony and GPSPATRON
Gain GNSS Confidence with GPSPATRON Cyntony proudly announces a new distribution partnership with GPSPATRON Sp. z o. o., adding their innovative...
How to Viewshed with Radio Mobile (Rebel Edition)
Mount Independence Cyntony is located in historic Lexington, Massachusetts, home of the “shot heard ‘round the world” that started the American War...
Announcing: Cyntony and Doodle Labs
Doodle Labs and Cyntony joining forces! We're thrilled to announce a new supplier relationship between Cyntony Corporation and Doodle Labs – a...
Announcing: Cyntony and NextMove Technologies
Nextmove Technologies and Cyntony team! We're thrilled to announce a new supplier relationship between Cyntony Corporation and Nextmove Technologies...
Antenna Materials Sourcing | What You Should Know
When purchasing a military-grade antenna, consumers should be aware of the materials being used to ensure they meet the necessary specifications and...
Antenna Production and Safety Standards | ISO 9001
Does your antenna supplier meet or exceed all regulations and ISO certifications? Federal regulations determine baseline safety and production...
Effectiveness, Quality, Satisfaction | Cyntony Antenna Partners
Cyntony prides itself on vetting our partner organizations fully -- and only working with the absolute top-tier of development and manufacturing...
Antenna Service and Delivery Standards
When it comes to delivery times and service standards, not all antenna suppliers are created equal. Cyntony partners exclusively with providers we...
Choosing the Right Antenna Supplier
Choosing an antenna that suits your needs involves a number of considerations – from device specifications like gain, pattern, form factor, and...
ESEA Does It! -- Preventing an emitter from damaging your DF antenna
What do you do when a sensitive direction-finding antenna and a high-power transmitter antenna need to be close-by on the same platform? How can you...
SBAs make some mean beams
A previous post introducedSwitched Beam Antenna (SBA) technology - it provides fast-steering of high-gain beams for line-of-sight communications...
What are Switched Beam Antennas?
Getting RF power or reach where you need it is a common challenge of radio systems. Switched Beam Antennas (SBA) can provide fast steering and high...
Alaris Antennas USA Distributor
Originally published May 4, 2011 Alaris Antennas United States Distribution Cyntony Corporation, an RF and antenna product distribution, announced...
Distributing bent pipes for RF plumbing inspection
Cyntony is proud to announce a new distribution relationship with Chora A/S, providers of unique specialized ES systems and sensors.
Communicate like a pro, so Boris doesn't know: with directional antennas!
Recently, I heard an unfamiliar term: spectrum camouflage, or maybe it was EM camouflage—no matter, it's intriguing. There's growing awareness that...
How to determine the right omnidirectional antenna for the job
So you want an omnidirectional antenna. Should be easy to find what you need, right? Finding an Omnidirectional Antenna Maybe, but probably...
Ahead to the past - Tactical Communications after SATCOM is denied
Space: The Current Frontier Have you wondered why the US is said to need a Space Force? There is little dispute that critical space-based systems...
Converting AOAs to LOBs — a DF & Compass Game
Radio direction finding (DF) is all about the angles... lots of them. Different conventions apply, specifics of implementation matter, and the...
Tempest in a teapot—what can SKARAB reveal for you?
Finding the Center of the Galaxy Summer in the northern hemisphere is a great time to view the constellation Sagittarius by looking south and left of...
Pilgrimage #3 - SRT, a treasure in the heart of Sardinia
I'm beginning to think my childhood interest in astrophysics was an itch that should have been scratched harder. Case in point is my recent visit to...
Open Letter to CW2 Patrick Derr, US Army EWWT
September 2017's issue of the AOC's Journal of Electronic Defense contained a surprisingly revealing article by US Army CW2 Patrick Derr, entitled...
Busting Watson Watt DF ambiguity - maths edition
A previous blog post introduced the hybrid loop-Adcock antenna, which, in a crossed configuration, is excellent for Watson Watt (WW) radio direction...
Mashup of classic DF antennas - 1000X better!?
Early Direction Finding Innovation One early Direction Finding (DF) antenna innovation that stands the test of time is delineated in Frank Adcock's...
The key to RPAS, UAS and drone detection
Drones are all the rage. These amazing machines offer fun capabilities like aerial photography and videography—even racing! However, they can also...
So how do you measure J/S anyway?
It is surprisingly simple to measure jamming (J) to signal (S) ratio, once you get your head around the implications of the J/S equation. Ends up...
How much J/S do you REALLY need?
Electronic warfare is making the news a lot lately. Not only do our adversaries employ, or seek to employ, sophisticated capabilities, the US Third...
Can collaboration solve your antenna sourcing challenge?
Program Managers, CTOs, Chief Engineers and Solution Architects: Listen up! Collaborate with Cyntony You can boost your team, schedule and efforts...
10 times better - Adaptive antenna bake-off revealed
A previous blog post asked: if you could get up to 10 dB improvement in omnidirectional antenna gain for a given size wideband antenna, would you...
Rubber beats steel...for manpack antennas, anyway
Manpack antennas that lack flexible connections to electronics housings are destined for short lifetimes. There are a few options for adding the...
+10 (dB) Reasons to adopt Adaptive Antennas
If you could get up to 10 dB improvement in omnidirectional antenna gain for a given size wideband antenna, you'd design your radio to take...
How much DF sensitivity do you REALLY need?
When evaluating relative merits of a direction finding system, most folks focus on 'accuracy,' which is generally a measure of the quality of the ...
How much antenna gain do you REALLY need?
Customers often ask us to help select antennas to assure sufficient range of their wireless communication systems. Providing an answer, though...
How much DF accuracy do you REALLY need?
Let's take a look at the practice of radio direction finding, and the levels of accuracy needed for different DF applications. Radio Direction...
Five Essential Antenna Specs to Accelerate Discovery
Antennas are multi-parametered beasts. When you send an request for quote (RFQ) or seek a new antenna solution, the response almost always requires...
Pilgrimage #2 - DRAO, Canada's spot for radio astronomy
Promoting the SKARAB FPGA supercomputer is taking me to interesting and beautiful places in the world; like the Penticton area of British Columbia,...
When is a wideband antenna frequency independent?
Frequency Independence Frequency independence is a fascinating characteristic of certain wideband antennas that display very similar radiation...
When is an antenna a wideband antenna?
If there is one common theme to the antennas Cyntony distributes, it is that they are wideband antennas. But what makes an antenna wideband?...
Cyntony - what's in a name?
Folks often ask me how the name Cyntony came about. The short answer: I favored a word, but it wasn't available as a URL. So I changed a letter and...
Pilgrimage of another sort - NRAO, a place for RF mosts and firsts
Since securing rights to distribute the SKARAB FPGA supercomputer (originally designed for MeerKAT radio telescope array signal processing), my...
Getting schooled in HF secure digital radio
With Cyntony's new-year tie-up as a USA reseller of RapidM products, I had the opportunity to get trained on the RAPTAWC family of secure...
Radio astronomy gets high performance signal processing
High Performance Signal Processing There's some amazing work in high performance signal processing hardware, firmware and software happening in...
Unique high performance electronics on sale to the world
Originally published September 10, 2015 Cyntony Corporation, a specialty electronics and antenna product distribution company and Peralex...
SKARAB Agile Extreme-Scale Networked FPGA Supercomputer Debuts at IEEE-HPEC 2015
Originally published September 16, 2015 SKARAB FPGA Supercomputer Cyntony and Peralex announce the demonstration of SKARAB, an agile extreme-scale...
Old-school radio's new digital lease on life
Secure Digital Voice and Data Technology is Now Available in USA: Cyntony is pleased to announce its appointment as a reseller of the tactical,...
Powerful antenna product family on sale in USA
Originally published May 4, 2011 Alaris Antennas United States Distribution Cyntony Corporation, an RF and antenna product distribution, announced...
DF Calibration on the Veld
Obtaining excellent performance from a complex electromagnetic device like a correlative interferometric direction finding antenna system is...
Decoding DF accuracy specs - a primer
Direction Finding Antenna Performance Direction finding antennas are complex devices, so it is surprising that some people try to boil their...
Beetle + KAT + ROACH3 = SKARAB (FPGA supercomputer)
Look closely at the logo to the right on the box below. What could it possibly mean? Why is a scarab beetle trying to roll the earth? And what was...
Mythical (HMC) beast spotted in Waltham, MA
During the debut appearance of the SKARAB agile neworked FPGA supercomputer at IEEE-HPEC 2015, a seemingly secondary item at our demo booth, the...
Let your imagination (and FPGA supercomputer code) fly!
Peralex and SKARAB On a recent trip to Cape Town to scout out new products for the Cyntony portfolio, the good folks at Peralex Electronics let me...
Curating innovative electronics...from Africa?
People are often surprised to find that many of the top-notch products we market and sell originate outside the USA. We usually respond to the...
Boston Strong
Initially Published 4/24/13 My heart grieves for the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing who lost their lives and were heinously injured.
VSWR :: Return Loss and all that
Originally Published 5/28/2011 When introduced to return loss in the context of antenna impedance matching, my first thought was 'the RF gurus must...
(Deci)phering the Bel - Decoding decibels in Antenna Measurement
Orignially published 4/23/2011 RF and antenna measurement and engineering are replete with deciBels and prolific dB abbreviations. Measuring...
Oops, we need antennas!
Originally Published 3/21/2011 My odyssey into the field of antennas began like many wireless technology integrators and product developers: with an...
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