Posts by "David A Moschella"
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...
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