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Borderers To Get TV More than half a million people on the Border will be able to receive ITV programmes for the first time when two new TV stations begin operatlon towards the end of the year. So, 59 years ago, stsrted a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 11th 1961. The story continues: The Independent Television Authority has placed order with Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co. for the supply and installation of the two transmitting stations, one at Caldbeck near Carlisle and ...

A possible red hot future for electric vehicle batteries High-temperature batteries could one day power road vehicles, according to the University of Nottingham, which has worked with Chinese universities to take a step forward with molten salt ‘metal-air’ batteries. Having a battery running at 700-800°C might seem a little impractical. “This molten salt battery has multiple feasible application directions, and transport is one of these,” Nottingham professor of electro-chemistry Geo...

Osram aims at outdoor lighting with 2424 chip-scale LED Osram has put a 2.1 x 2.1mm die into a 2.4 x 2.4 x 0.6mm package to create an LED for outdoor lighting. Called Osconiq C 2424, “because the package and chip have approximately the same dimensions, it is considered a chip-scale package. This allows the individual LEDs in the luminaire to be placed close together, ensuring particularly homogeneous illumination”, according to the company. It comes in 70, 80 and 90 CI versions, and 70 CRI ...

EPITAXIAL transistors are being shown in a demonstration on the STC stand at the Physical Society Exhibition. So, 59 years ago, started a story in Electron

Xpeng Motors has selected u-blox F9 precision GNSS receiver for its P7 electric car. F9 receives GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou satellite positioning sig

New Approach For Control System Analysis An entirely new approach to the method of measuring the transfer function of control systems, which will lead to much greater accuracies and very substantial savings in time, has been developed by the Wayne Kerr Laboratories Ltd. So, 59 years ago, started a story in the January 18th 1961 edition of Electronics Weekly The story continues: It was conceived by Mr.Geoffrey Gouriet, a technical director. Before joining Wayne Kerr, Mr. Gouriet was for many ye...

Horizontal USB Type A sockets survive 20,000 mating cycles photo centre), GCT has announced a pair of horizontal-mount extended-life USB A connectors – with added current capacity – aiming them at fast charging and high usage applications. USB1130 ( USB1135 ( photo right) is a USB 3.0 variant tested to 20,000 cycles. Extended life comes from improved retention forces through shells made from stainless steel. “This makes the USB1130 over six times more durable than standard USB A 2.0, and...

Stantec Zebra Computer Translates Smith Chart Measurements Into H Parameters THE Stantec Zebra Computer installed at the Standard Telecommunications Laboratories, Harlow, is being used, along with its many other duties, to translate measurements obtained is the form of Smith charts into H parameters. So, 59 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961. The story continues: When first used for this purpose, the computer took 30 minutes per calculation. Improv...

Computer Can Process Eight Tasks Simultaneously An electronic data-processing system made by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co recently processed a 10,000 man industrial payroll in 2.75 minutes. So, 59 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961. The story continues: Using the new 800 computer, this job is claimed to have been completed twice as fast as any other electronic equipment in the same price range. In dealing with this payroll in less than th...

Elektra Awards 2020 – Last chance to enter After a year of massive disruption across the world, the Elektra Awards 2020 are going ahead as a free virtual event on March 25th 2021. And this Thursday, 17 December, is the last chance to enter the industry’s most prestigious awards. Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, electronics companies worldwide have been busy creating game-changing technologies that are helping to shape the future of the industry. These incredible achievements d...