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2015 News
- October 2015
mWAVE Industries LLC is pleased to announce that it has acquired the assets of the Gabriel Antenna (including QuickFire™ and Flat Panels) and Mark Grid Antenna product lines. The company has completed the move of the tooling, fixtures and inventory of the two brands to its facilities in Windham, Maine USA. It currently expects to have production capability in place by mid- December 2015. View Press Release
Read MoremWAVE Industries Acquires Assets of the Gabriel and Mark Antenna Brands
mWAVE Industries LLC, a leading provider of innovative custom and commercial microwave antenna solutions, is pleased to announce that it has acquired all of the assets and IP of the Gabriel and Mark microwave antenna brands, which includes parabolic grids, solid parabolic and directional panel antennas. These two leading terrestrial microwave antenna brands are recognized worldwide for their robust designs and reliability.
The merging of the Gabriel and Mark microwave antenna brands into the mWAVE portfolio offers global customers a one stop source for commercial and military antenna product lines, as well as access to the strength and knowledge of the mWAVE antenna design and customization engineering professionals. The mWAVE portfolio consists of horn, array, panel and parabolic (grid and solid) antennas and components such as feeds, passive components, microwave couplers, polarization rotators, filters, transitions and waveguide manifolds.
mWAVE is in the process of setting up Gabriel and Mark antenna, feed and spare part production at its Windham, ME facility and expects customer shipments to begin in Q4. The Gabriel and Mark Antenna brands were most recently manufactured by General Dynamics SATCOM in Newton, North Carolina.
The Gabriel antenna brand consists of an extensive product line of directional parabolic and flat panel antennas such as the Gabriel QuickFire™ product line. Thousands of Gabriel’s parabolic and horn reflector antennas serve millions of channel miles throughout the world in cellular, telephony, industrial, broadcast, government and military applications.
The Mark Grid Antenna brand is the recognized leader in the parabolic grid market serving the public safety, broadcast, utility, pipeline and other fixed microwave applications operating in frequency bands from 335 to 2700 MHz with antennas ranging in size from 3-ft (0.9) to15-ft (4.6) diameters.
"mWAVE is delighted to have these two brands added to our product portfolio and to bring Gabriel manufacturing back to Maine", said Peter Farnum, CEO of mWAVE upon the completion of this recent acquisition. "mWAVE is currently moving the assets of these two brands from North Carolina to mWAVE’s Windham Maine facility. We expect to be in production and shipping the Gabriel and Mark products, including replacement parts and feed assembly upgrades by the end of the year", stated Mr. Farnum.
"It is especially exciting to note that mWAVE was founded by ex-Gabriel employees Peter Farnum, Christopher Mosher and myself after Gabriel was sold and moved to North Carolina in 2003. Bringing the products, capabilities and manufacturing back to Maine is a great win for mWAVE and the State of Maine", added Michael Cahill, Vice President of Business Development & Sales.
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- June 2015 mWAVE Industries LLC applied for and has been awarded a seed grant from the Maine Technology Institute (MTI) for the development of a 3-ft (0.9) diameter, 80 GHz millimeter wave parabolic antennas. This development program is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2016.
- January 2015 mWAVE Industries LLC was awarded a significant antenna feed development program from a leading supplier of mission critical services to the Federal Government. This work is expected be completed over the next 6-9 months.
2014 News
- May 2014 mWAVE Industries LLC celebrates 10 years in business in 2014. The company wishes to thank its many customers for sharing in our growth and success over the past 10 years! We look forward to supporting your antenna requirements in the years to come and being ‘your partner in antenna technology’!
- April 2014 mWAVE successfully completed a large ‘build to print’ antenna program for an international military/defense firm. This program involved a high level of mechanical engineering support, precision manufacturing & assembly and extensive range testing of the antennas at mWAVE’s facility.
2013 News
- September 2013mWAVE will once again be exhibiting at the International Telemetering Conference being held in Las Vegas! Come see and discuss your antenna requirements with us at Booth 400.
The conference runs from October 21st through to October 24th, 2013 at Bally’s Convention Center. Visit www.telemetry.org for more details on the conference and exhibition. - August 2013mWAVE Industries completed and shipped 100 antennas,
model RPCR2-36-N (circularly polarized 3.4 -3.8 GHz) for a major international wireless backhaul & access solutions provider. The antennas will be used in a telecommunications project is in northern Africa. - February 2013mWAVE has successfully developed and delivered eight X-Band ship borne radar antennas to a large defense firm engaged in Future Naval Capability research. Field trial testing of the complete radar system is currently underway.
2012 News
- October 2012mWAVE Industries completed and shipped 300 antennas, model RPCR2-36-N (circularly polarized 3.4 -3.8 GHz) for a major international wireless backhaul & access solutions provider. The installation project is in northern Africa.
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July 2012mWAVE will once again be exhibiting at the International Telemetering Conference being held in San Diego. Come see and discuss your antenna requirements with us at Booth 1403! The conference runs from October 22nd through to October 25th, 2012 at the Town & Country Hotel.
Visit www.telemetry.org for more details on the conference and exhibition. - February 2012mWAVE has successfully teamed with a prominent University for the design, test and manufacture of a shaped beam flat panel C-band microstrip antenna. A number of these C-Band broadbeam arrays where phased together and used in a airborne radar application. The first field trial and test was a complete success and more test flights are currently underway.
2011 News
- December 2011mWAVE has designed and shipped a six (6) foot diameter high powered dual band, horizontally polarized antenna with conscan capability. The antenna will operate with a fixed radiation beam at S-Band, the X-band will provide conscan operation. This antenna was designed to handle 140kW peak power, with an average power of 140W for both bands.
- September 2011mWAVE Industries completed and shipped an additional 2,248 antennas for the deployable communication solutions for the US military. mWAVE has supplied over 44,000 antennas for this program over the past three and a half years.
- July 2011mWAVE will once again be exhibiting at the International Telemetering Conference being held in Las Vegas. Come see and discuss your antenna requirements with us at Booth 729! The conference runs from October 24th through to October 27th, 2011. Visit www.telemetry.org for more details on the conference and exhibition.
- June 2011mWAVE announces the release of two accessories for its 80 GHz antenna product line. Product Model number ADP-800 is a kit which adapts a single polarized 80 GHz antenna for use as a dual polarized antenna, with the ability to mount one ODU for each polarization. Product model number SAA-1 is a portable sight alignment tool kit designed for use with mWAVE’s HRP1-800 and HRP2-800 antenna models. Please contact mWAVE Industries, LLC for more details and pricing on these accessories product line.
- February 2011mWAVE Industries completed and shipped 92 units, RPCR2-36-N circularly polarized antennas to the country of Morocco for a major international systems installer.
- January 2011mWAVE Industries is very pleased to announce the release of its 1FT & 2FT size shrouded, high performance models, HRP1-800 and HRP2-800 operating in the 71.0 – 86.0 GHz band. These 80 GHz antennas provide superior electrical and mechanical features. Please contact mWAVE Industries, LLC for more details on this product line.
2010 News
- December 2010mWAVE Industries successfully completed a 3,625 antenna add on requirement for deployable communication solutions for the US military. mWAVE has now supplied over 40,000 antennas for this program over the past 3 years.
- October 2010mWAVE successfully completed an extensive range test program for a large international radio & equipment manufacturer.
- June 2010 mWAVE will again be exhibiting at the International Telemetering Conference being held in San Diego. Come see and discuss your antenna requirements with us at Booth 702! The conference runs from October 25th through to October 28th, 2010. Visit www.telemetry.org for more details on the conference and exhibition.
- February 2010 A global leading security and defense systems integrator awarded mWAVE a design, develop and build program requiring a large quantity of dual linear conical style horn antennas. Delivery is scheduled for late May 2010.
- January 2010 mWAVE Industries successfully completed a 20 month antenna supply program totaling over 31,000 antennas with a leading provider of deployable communication solutions for the US military. This large scale production program involved monthly shipments of a slightly customized mWAVE commercial antenna.
2009 News
- December 2009mWAVE secured multiple orders from various military system integrators for its high power Omni style antenna, model OQCL0-04-7/16F. These units are scheduled for shipment in late March 2010.
- September 2009 mWAVE completed and shipped an order for 4FT diameter 5 GHz antennas with radomes, model RP4-56A-N-WMR requiring a special design and manufacturing technique due to a severe environment. This was for deployment in Antarctica by Raytheon Polar Services.
- July 2009mWAVE will again be exhibiting at the International Telemetering Conference being held in Las Vegas. Come see us at booth 1214! The conference runs from October 26th through to October 29th, 2009. Visit www.telemetry.org for more details on the conference and exhibition.
- June 2009mWAVE Industries announces the release of its 3FT size shrouded, high performance models, HRP3-54-N and HRPD3-54-N operating in the 4.94 - 5.85 GHz band. This compliments the 2FT models, HRP2-54-N and HRPD2-54-M already available. Please contact mWAVE Industries, LLC for more details on this new product line.
- May 2009mWAVE is pleased to announce it has been awarded an order from a leading manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems for the development of two new antenna designs to be used with their systems. This award compliments the current antenna design being supplied by mWAVE Industries to this customer. “mWAVE has an existing successful relationship with this customer. Our proven mechanical and RF engineering experience along with a significant upgrade to our quality assurance program provided this opportunity to expand and grow this business relationship,” commented Peter V. Anania, President of mWAVE Industries LLC. These new antenna products are scheduled to be available over the summer months.
- March 2009mWAVE has supplied a large quantity of high survival wind 5GHz parabolic antennas to a UK Telecommunications Contractor for a communications upgrade in the Caribbean region. “mWAVE’s extensive mechanical engineering experience along with its quality antenna products put us in a position to quickly assist this international customer,” commented Peter V. Anania, President of mWAVE Industries LLC. For more information about this high survival wind design please contact mWAVE.
- February 2009mWAVE is pleased to announce that it has added experienced staff to its mechanical and RF engineering departments. These important additions increase mWAVE’s engineering capacity to develop new commercial antenna products and to take on new custom antenna design programs.