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Radiall's General Interconnect SHF (RF coaxial) cable range is a comprehensive solution designed to meet the demands of various applications where minimal electrical loss and high phase stability are crucial. These cables offer ultra-low loss characteristics achieved through features such as ePTFE wrapped dielectric and solid center conductors. This construction ensures optimal performance even in scenarios where low loss and power handling are critical, while also maintaining phase stability across a broad temperature range.
The range of cable diameters, spanning from 2.4mm to 13mm, provides flexibility to balance different parameters such as frequency band, attenuation, power handling, weight and flexibility. Moreover, options like stranded center conductors enhance flexibility without compromising performance.
Connectivity options include popular interfaces like SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, BMA, BNC, QRE, TNC, and N Type, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of equipment and systems.
In defense technology, SHF cable assemblies find applications in tactical and strategic communications, electronic warfare, and radar systems. For radar applications, phase-matched cable assemblies are often necessary and Radiall offers complete sets of phase-matched, time-delay-matched, or amplitude-matched SHF cable assemblies to meet these requirements.
Beyond defense, the superior characteristics of Radiall's SHF cable assemblies make them suitable for industrial applications where minimal loss is critical for customized installations. Radiall ensures superior quality through highly skilled personnel, in-house production, and testing facilities, resulting in cable assemblies with outstanding electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance.
Features
- Ultra Low Loss
- Frequency up to 67GHz
- Optimal phase stability vs. temp. & flex
- Electro magnetic compliant
- Phase match with Gold master
Benefits
- Longer flex life
- Low bending moment
- Low maintenance
- Wide product range
- Customized harness solution
Applications
- Defense missiles and fighter
- Civil Aircrafts
- Space launcher
- Armed vehicles
- Navy Survivalence and Equipment
Radiall's SHF LSZH Outdoor cables are engineered to excel in demanding outdoor environments, making them a preferred choice for ground radars and naval systems. These cables maintain excellent electrical performance while enduring harsh conditions, ensuring reliability in critical applications such as ship-board radar systems and ground surveillance radar arrays.
Key features include ultra-low loss characteristics, essential for military platforms and outdoor applications where signal integrity is paramount. Additionally, their Low Smoke, Zero Halogen (LSZH) properties, UV resistance, and hermetic sealing enhance durability in challenging environments.
Specific connector attachments designed for optimal water tightness further enhance suitability for outdoor use. The most popular connector interfaces include SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, QRE, TNC, and N Type, ensuring compatibility with various systems.
In defense technology, SHF cable assemblies are integral to tactical and strategic communications, electronic warfare, and radar systems. Radiall offers phase-matched cable assemblies for precise signal synchronization, as well as complete sets tailored to specific requirements.
Beyond defense, Radiall's cable assemblies offer outstanding electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance for a range of industrial applications. Their commitment to quality is evident through highly skilled personnel, in-house production, and rigorous testing, ensuring reliability across industries.
Features
- UV resistance
- Watertight
- Flame retardant and Halogen free
- High abrasion resistance
- Phase match with Gold master
Benefits
- Suitable for Indoor & Outdoor
- Robust solutions
- Raw cable option available
- Low Maintenance
- Customized harness solution
Applications
- Ground Equipment
- Navy Equipment's
- Armed vehicles
- Tactical Communication systems
- Radar Systems
Radiall's armored SHF cable assemblies are tailored for rugged environments, particularly in defense and industrial sectors where reliability and durability are non-negotiable. With the Projack shielding, these assemblies are fortified against crushing, abrasion, and traction, safeguarding the integrity of SHF Ultra Low Loss cables. Furthermore, the Projack design mitigates the kink effect and ensures water tightness, bolstering the assemblies' resilience. Radiall offers products variants like SHF MA, SHF MR and SHF MPJ for wide mechanical application choices.
These assemblies boast a spectrum of armored structures, from double jacketing to the top-tier ProJack, fortifying them against high mechanical stress while upholding superior electrical performance.
Radiall facilitates seamless integration with a variety of connector interfaces, including SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, QRE, TNC, and N Type, enabling versatility in system configurations.
In defense applications, these SHF cable assemblies excel in tactical and strategic communications, electronic warfare, and radar systems. Radar applications often necessitate phase-matched assemblies, and Radiall offers comprehensive sets of phase-matched, time-delay-matched, or amplitude-matched SHF cable assemblies to meet specific demands.
Beyond defense, the remarkable electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance of Radiall's cable assemblies renders them ideal for diverse industrial applications where minimal loss is paramount. Radiall's unwavering dedication to quality is underscored by their adept workforce, in-house production, and rigorous testing facilities, ensuring unparalleled reliability and performance excellence.
Features
- Heavy duty cables
- Frequency up to 40 GHz
- Crush resistance
- Abrasion resistance
- Watertight
Benefits
- Robust solutions
- Wide product range to meet mechanical requirements
- Wide connectorisation
- Low Maintenance
- Customized harness solution
Applications
- Navy equipment
- Armed vehicles
- Space launcher
- At Test equipment manufacturing
- Platform applications
It sounds like SHF Airframe cables from Radiall offer a combination of lightweight design, robustness, and high performance, making them ideal for demanding applications in surveillance systems, drones, fighter aircraft, and other aerospace environments. These cables are designed to withstand harsh conditions such as high temperatures and abrasion, while also providing optimal electrical performance.
The use of innovative connectors like the QRE (Quick Lock Ruggedized connectors) further enhances the suitability of these cables for high-density systems. Popular connector interfaces like SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, TNC, and N Type ensure compatibility with a wide range of equipment.
In defense technology, SHF cable assemblies find application in tactical and strategic communications, electronic warfare, and radar systems. The availability of phase-matched cable assemblies is particularly crucial for radar applications where precise synchronization is required.
Radiall's emphasis on quality assurance through skilled personnel, in-house production, and testing facilities underscores their commitment to delivering superior cable assemblies with outstanding electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance.
Overall, Radiall's SHF cable assemblies appear to be a reliable choice for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications where lightweight design, durability, and high performance are essential.
Features
- Light weight
- Frequency up to 26.5 GHz
- Phase stable vs. temp.
- Slim construction
- Fluid resistance
Benefits
- Slim construction
- 30% weight savings
- Ling life in extreme conditions
- Wide connectorisation
- Customized harness solution
Applications
- Fighters
- AWACS equipment's
- Civil Aircraft
- Tactical Communications
- Radar Systems
Short bend coaxial cables are indeed highly flexible, allowing for tight bends close to the connector. This feature simplifies cable routing and makes them ideal for interconnects between RF circuit cards, modules, and enclosure panels. They come in various diameters such as .047, .086, and .141 inches and offer a bending radius as low as 0.2 inches. Standard lengths range from 2.5 to 12 inches, with custom lengths also available, catering to different application needs. These cables support frequencies up to 26.5 GHz.
The most popular connector interfaces for short bend coaxial cables include SMA. This diversity ensures compatibility with a wide range of devices and systems.
Short bend solutions are particularly advantageous for in-the-box applications with space constraints, such as space flight, thermal vacuum, microwave test, and various commercial and military applications. By allowing for close bending behind the connector, these cables minimize footprint, save space, and simplify cable routing, eliminating the need to protect the back of the connector.
Radiall RF cable assemblies are designed to meet stringent requirements, offering customized solutions in product design, installation, regulatory compliance, and performance improvement. With fully integrated design, production, assembly, and testing capabilities, Radiall can deliver RF interconnect solutions from conception through testing and production, ensuring high-quality and reliable performance.
Features
- Short bend
- Frequency range up to 26.5GHz
- Standard length solutions from 2,2 inches 12 inches
- Flexibility
- Slim designs
Benefits
- Reduced bending radius
- Customized assembly length solution
- Long service life
- Easy routing
- Space savings
Applications
- Space flight
- Thermal Vacuum
- Microwave test
- Military Applications
- Interconnection of RF circuits, modules & Enclosure panels
Radiall's TestPro cables, a part of the TestPro series, are engineered with meticulous attention to detail to serve the needs of bench test cable assemblies. While they may not prioritize aesthetics, they excel in performance, testing, and measurement. They're designed for environments like component and assembly shops, test labs, and automatic test equipment applications, where durability and precision are essential.
The TestPro series encompasses various cable types, each tailored to specific needs. TestPro 4.2 and TestPro 3 ensure outstanding phase stability, crucial for precise measurements over extended calibration intervals. TestPro 5 and TestPro 8 prioritize ultra-low loss, making them ideal for installations where minimizing loss and power issues is critical.
One of the standout features of TestPro cables is their ruggedness. With a lifecycle of 5,000 mating/unmating cycles and a flex life exceeding 20,000 cycles, they're built to withstand demanding conditions while maintaining exceptional durability and flexibility.
The TestPro SHF cable supports popular connector interfaces, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of test equipment. Additionally, TestPro cables feature a specialized protection system that guards against wear and tear, enhancing their durability in challenging environments. The unique connector attachment system, combined with a robust cable structure, ensures high tensile stress resistance, maintaining the integrity of the assembly over prolonged use.
The Phase Stable product range within the TestPro series is specifically tailored for use in test benches, providing long-term stability and reliability during dynamic testing.
Radiall's TestPro series offers a comprehensive solution for Test and Measurement applications, delivering outstanding electrical performance and rugged durability to meet the rigorous demands of modern testing environments. With their purposeful design, specialized construction, unique connector attachment system, and phase stability, TestPro cables stand out in the market as a top-notch solution for test and measurement applications. Their versatility, performance guarantee, and suitability for a wide range of applications make them well-equipped to meet the demanding requirements of modern testing environments.
Features
- Flexibility
- High electrial stability
- Outstanding crush, torque and kink resistance
- Up to 5,000 mating cycles
- Up to 50,000 flex cycles
Benefits
- Repeatable measurement
- Crush torque and tensile resistant
- Wide connectorisation
- Long service life
- Longer calibration intervals
Applications
- Vector Network Analyzer
- Signal Spectrum & Oscilloscope
- Switches Matrices
- Modular Platform (PXI)
- Production Test DUT & Laboratory & test bench
RF flexible cables are also called RG/KX cables, which have been standardized by MIL-C-17 specifications since the 1940s. These cables, often used in military RF and microwave applications, adhere to strict standards regarding electrical, mechanical, and environmental performance. The KX cables, equivalent to RG cables under French standards (NF), are particularly suitable for dynamic applications or those requiring flexibility for ease of connection.
Flexible cables with low-loss and eco-friendly properties have been developed to meet optimized electrical and environmental requirements. They offer cost-effectiveness compared to RG cables while being halogen-free and flame-retardant to comply with safety and environmental regulations.
These cables are ideal for applications requiring a short bending radius or those necessitating flexibility for easy connections. The most popular connector interfaces for RF flexible standard cables include SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, QRE, TNC, and N Type.
Companies like Radiall offer an extensive range of cable assemblies with exceptional electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance. They ensure superior quality through highly skilled personnel, in-house production, and testing facilities.
Features
- High electrical performance
- Ease of connecterisation
- Flame retardant & Halogen free
- Eco friendly basket variants
- Flexibility
Benefits
- Wide cable basket range
- Wide connecter interface solution
- In house assembling
- Inhouse testing
- Low and high volume support.
Applications
- GPS
- Military applications
- Security systems
- Communications systems
- CATV and CCTV
Semi-rigid RF cables, which offer high precision forming and optimal shielding effectiveness for excellent electrical performance, especially with low insertion loss. These cables are engineered for frequencies up to 50GHz and are manually bendable while retaining their pre-bent shape until intentionally reshaped. They're customizable in length and shape, making them ideal for large-scale applications and system prototyping, with phase-matched cables available upon request.
In aerospace and defense industries, semi-rigid coaxial cables find extensive use in radar systems, satellite communication, and military-grade equipment due to their reliability and performance. They're adaptable to various configurations, orientations, and mounting options, catering to specific design needs across markets.
Additionally, these cables are compatible with various connector interfaces such as SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, QRE, TNC, and N Type, ensuring versatility in application. They boast strong vibrational stress resistance and high phase stability, making them suitable for demanding environments.
Radiall offers a wide range of cable assemblies with superior electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance, backed by highly skilled personnel and in-house production and testing facilities to ensure quality. These assemblies play crucial roles in applications such as transmission and delay lines for microwaves, high-speed processing calculators, aircraft connectors, waveguide applications and modernizing internal module connections.
Features
- Perfect shape
- Frequency up to 50 GHz
- High screening effectiveness
- Phase matched on 3D's
- Wide range of connectorisation
Benefits
- High precession forming
- High repeatability
- Small & large volume production
- Quick proto proposal
- Customized harness solution
Applications
- Radar Systems
- Satellite communications
- Military Grade equipment's
- Mission-critical systems
- Waveguide
Hand-formable RF cables, also known as semi-flexible RF cables, are indeed a versatile solution bridging the gap between performance and flexibility. Utilizing tin-dipped braid technology, they offer a compromise that allows for easy routing during installation without experiencing the spring-back effect common in more rigid cables. This flexibility is particularly advantageous when navigating confined spaces or when multiple repositions are required on-site.
Compared to other coaxial cable types, hand-formable cables excel in their ability to accommodate tight bending radii while requiring less force for bending. This characteristic makes them highly adaptable and easily installable in various environments, including industrial settings where minimal loss is crucial for customized installations.
Radiall's hand-formable cable assemblies, engineered for frequencies up to 18 GHz, are specifically designed for both measurement and system applications. The company offers customization options, such as precision phase matching, ensuring that cables can be tailored to meet specific customer requirements, including length and performance specifications.
In terms of connectivity, Radiall offers a range of popular interfaces, including SMPM, SMP, SSMA, SMA, QRE, TNC, and N Type, ensuring compatibility with a wide array of equipment and systems across different industries.
The superior quality of Radiall's hand-formable cable assemblies is maintained through rigorous quality control processes, including highly skilled personnel, in-house production, and comprehensive testing facilities. This commitment results in cable assemblies that deliver outstanding electrical, mechanical, and chemical performance, meeting the demanding requirements of various applications beyond defense, including industrial settings.
Features
- Custom formable
- High screening effectiveness
- Frequency up to 18 GHz
- Jacketed and unjacketed solution
- Wide range of connectorisation
Benefits
- Cost performance solutions
- Easy manual repositioning
- Alternative to semirigid
- Easy routing
- Customized harness solution
Applications
- Navigating confined spaces
- Measurement
- Defense
- Measuring systems
- Industrial applications
Applications
SHF cable assemblies are suitable for different applications. In defense technology, its main use is in tactical and strategic communications, electronic warfare and radar systems. Phase-matched cable assemblies are often required for radar applications. Complete sets of phase-matched, time-delay-matched or amplitude-matched SHF cable assemblies are available. Also, the special characteristics of this cable assembly family are likely to make it the preferred solution for all industrial applications where lowest loss is crucial for customer specific installations.
| Sl. No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground & Navy | Indoor | Regular | Select General Interconnect with solid center conductor for static application. Prefer stranded center conductor for dynamic application. |
| High Stress | Armored cables (MA/10, MR or PJ) with solid center conductor for static application. Prefer stranded center conductor cable with PJ option for dynamic application. | |||
| Outdoor | Regular | Outdoor cables (MOD) for static application. Prefer stranded center conductor (OD) for dynamic application. | ||
| High Stress | Armored cables with MPJ option for static application. Prefer stranded center conductor (PJ) for dynamic application. | |||
| 2 | Aero | Pressurized | Regular | Select General Interconnect range. Prefer solid center conductor for loss performances. FAR 25, Boeing & Airbus Smoke, fire and toxicity qualified. |
| Lightweight | Select General Interconnect range. Prefer solid center conductor for loss performances. FAR 25, Boeing & Airbus Smoke, fire and toxicity qualified. | |||
| Non-pressurized | Select MLW-2 cables provide the best weight/performance ratio. Up to 30% weight saving. | |||
| 3 | Test & Measurement | Bench test | Please refer to our TestPro catalog. Bench test TestPro assemblies offer the upmost performances on the market. They differ from standard cable assemblies in the fact that they are especially designed for applications that require repeated connection/disconnection procedures, strenuous flexing situations and applications. | |
| Ultra low loss | TestPro 5 and TestPro 8 provide the highest performance in loss while benefiting from a reinforced structure. | |||