Electronic Components Solutions

Custom RF Switching Solutions

Custom RF Switching Solutions

Do you need a high reliable switching solution for your communication channels? Is the performance of your test-signals into your ATE environment not in line with your needs? Do you emphasize expanding your switch network capabilities in the future ??

The Heynen and Dow Key teams can help you in resolving these switching problems and requirements whether this is in a Space, ATE, Industrial or Commercial application.

The best in the RF switch industry, Dow-Key's engineering team is dedicated to support you all the way: from custom solutions to RF system integration and post product support. They are specialized in designing and manufacturing switches and complex switching systems. Their experience is priceless. It enables them to provide customized solutions built per custom specifications and to meet all types of signal switching needs; foremost matrix solutions, fiber optics switching and switches for space applications.

    Why select Dow Key

  • Dow Key designs and manufactures their own electromechanical switches. Dow Key builds per your design and performance specifications. The Team wil offer you RF and design expertise and guide you in achieving your project goals.

    • What Dow Key offers

  • Dow Key offers program management, special quality testing or SDRL management if needed. The knowledge to integrate complex switching modules the proper way for maximized performance. The team will design and integrate switching systems with active components such as amplifiers, attenuators, isolators, filters etc. There are many software control options: Ethernet (TCP/IP), GPIB, RS-232, RS-422, CAN bus, LXI, SNMP, Touch Screen control, LCD/Keypad control, LabView etc.

    • Wide application area

  • The application area of Dow Key products is wide. Whether it is Space industry with high requirements on temperature and weight. ATE testing environments that need routing of High Frequency test-signals Dow Key can handle these requirements. Industrial, SatCom, avionics commercialyou will see Dow Key products in all those environments. A switching solution for almost every application.

    • Main Advantages

    High reliable Customized Switching solutions
  • Pre and Post Sales technical support

Related Solutions

  • Need for ultra-miniature switches in you application?

    Your application needs RF switching on you PCB but there is no space available.  Dow Key now has the possibility to reduce your switch to miniature level.

    The switches are designed with an overall size of 0.75 x 0,75 x 0,56 Inch with a weight of 0,5 Ounces, power consumption of these switches is kept very low.

    This brings the switches on your PCB for sattelite and space applications enabling you to go one step further in miniaturisation

     

     

  • You Need a High Reliable RF Switch? Dow-Key's Reliant Switch™!

    As an engineer performing system integrations in telecommunication and component manufacturing, you are faced with a range of challenges relating to the cost of test, and reliability over the test systems' life expectancy. A longer life expectancy will keep costs of replacing RF switches to a minimum.
    Herewith greatly reducing downtime and improving overall testing efficiency. 

  • Space Grade RF, Coaxial And Waveguide Switches? Dow-Key!

    Whenever you work with space grade RF, coaxial and waveguide switches, and need high reliability solutions that can withstand the severe environments space imposes on complex systems...Dow-Key is confident in providing these solutions with decades of experience and knowledge.

  • MPG solutions to your RF Filter Design

    In 2014 Heynen has teamed up with the Microwave Product Group in Salesbury, Maryland, United States. Team players in this group are BSC-Filters, Dow-Key, K&L Microwave and Pole-Zero, four well-established companies in the RF industry.

    Providing solutions on filter design in a wide range of application areas, like communication, radar, industry, army and commerce. This covering Low to High Power, Low MHz to High GHz Range and miniaturization.

    Connection to the internet by RF is becoming a more or less a standard approach. Our phones, ipads, laptops, heating, lighting, all are using a more or less sophisticated connection to the internet.

    The MPG group has been publishing an article in the Microwave Journal, highlighting the trends and new market driven Filter advances, seen in the industry.

    In case you are looking for a solution in the RF space, Heynen and MPG can certainly help you in finding the right system, module part and, if needed, customized to your needs.

    You can see some highlights of the article in the next three paragraphs.

Supplier

  • MPG Dow Key Microwave

    Dow-Key Microwave Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of electromechanical switches for radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications

    Dow-Key Microwave specializes in the design and manufacture of customized, high-performance coaxial switches, waveguide switches, high-reliability (space) switches (including T-switches and switch blocks), as well as switching systems such as RF matrices (electromechanical, solid state, and fiber optics). They also offer system-level rack integration, programmable attenuators, and delay lines. A wide range of applications, including space (launch vehicles, manned vehicles, and satellites), telecommunications, automated test equipment (ATE), avionics, ground-based satellite communications, and broadcasting.

Related Blog messages

  • Dow-Key Reliant Switch Product Series - your ATE solution!

    The RF & wireless devices of today are equipped with many RF signal routes between their output and input interfaces that require sophisticated and rigorous testing. Maintain high insertion loss repeatability and successfully replicate RF (test) results with Dow-Key Reliant Switch™ solutions.

  • Dow-Key's Spaceflight Heritage

    Experience and heritage are of great importance when providing products for space programs.  Dow-Key® Microwave began its spaceflight heritage 1970 in support of some of the very first space programs. Its Space Division, composed of an experienced and dedicated team of technical, test and administrative personnel is solely focused on supporting the needs of our customers from design initiation through spacecraft integration.

  • Dow Key RF & Test Application Electromechanical Matrices

    Whether you are designing a matrix or planning to purchase one, it is important to understand how every decision makes a difference in the cost of the matrix and impacts RF performance. The more components that go into a matrix, the more the system must compensate for signal loss and other RF parameters that are affected. As a result, integration of RF components in switching systems is a complex, yet highly important matter.

  • Dow-Key Microwave Miniature MS series

    Dow-Key Microwave introduces the next generation of switch matrices: the Miniature MS series (or MMS series). MMS is ideal for test and measurement requirements. The series is equipped with high-performance Reliant Switches™ providing 0.03 dB insertion loss repeatability across DC to 26.5 GHz with minimum 10 million life cycles for SPDT and 5 million for SP6T. MMS is suitable for many applications where RF switches are needed, including extensive DUT testing. The series needs 12VDC power supply with switches controlled remotely via TCP/IP Ethernet and HTTP-Server; a built-in “Sequencer” feature allows the user to program up to ten 500-step sequence programs. A VAC-to-DC adapter is included. (RF cables are not.)