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ETI is a leading developer and producer of coupled cavity and helix traveling wave tubes for government and commercial applications.

ETI has produced ten's of thousands of TWTs at rates as high as 100/month to support numerous communications, radar and EW systems throughout the world.  Government systems include the F-14, F-15 & F-18 weapons control radars, the JSTARS airborne surveillance radar, the AMRAAM missile seeker, the Firefinder & Patriot ground based mobile radars and several surface & airborne MILSATCOM uplinks.  Commercial systems include point-to-multipoint telecom, SATCOM uplink and instrumentation.

Recently ETI has focused on bringing forward a family of high power high efficiency millimeter-wave helix TWTs for communications, radar, EW and instrumentation applications.  The product family combines proprietary design elements with well known approaches such as multiple depressed collector stages to realize state of the art power output, bandwidth, DC efficiency, size and mass.  A summary of these products follows:  

Military and Telecommunications Products
High Power MMW Helix TWT Product Listing

Band

L-3 ETI Model

Freq
(GHz)

Power Range
(W)

Nominal Efficiency

Siz (inches)
W x H x L

Mass
(lbs)

Q

8905HP

43.5-45.5

120 - 160 CW

37%

2.7 x 2.9 x 12.7

3.8

Q

8925H

43.5 - 45.5

186 - 240 CW

47%

2.8 x 2.3 x 12.0

4.0

Q
Broadband

8905HP-6

40.0 - 50.0

70 -160 CW

32 %

2.7 x 2.9 x 12.7

3.8

Ka/Q
Dual Band

8923H

Q:43.5 - 45.5

175 - 240 CW

46%

2.8 x 2.3 x 12.0

4.0

Ka: 30.0 - 31.0

300- 430 CW

51%

Ka
Radar

8922HP

33.4 - 36.0

200 - 280 pulse/CW

48%

2.7 x 2.9 x 12.7

3.8

Ka
Radar

8909H

33.0 - 36.0

1000 peak
400 - 500 average

40%

2.7 x 2.9 x 12.7

3.8

Ka

8921HP

27.5 - 31.0

250 - 280 CW

45%

2.7 x 2.9 x 12.7

3.8

Ka

8926H

27.5 - 31.0

400-440 CW

55%

2.7 x 2.9 x 13.3

4.0

Ka

8926HA

27.5 - 31.0

500 - 570 CW
320 - 380 average

45%

2.7 x 2.9 x 13.3

4.0

Ka

8926HB

27.5 - 31.0

500 - 570 CW

57%

2.7 x 2.9 x 13.3

4.0

Ka
Broadband

8929H

26.5 - 40.0

150 - 300 CW

32%

2.7 x 2.7 x 13.2

4.0

K
Broadband

8928H

18.0 -26.5

150 - 190 CW

30%

2.7 x 3.1 x 14.8

4.0

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We appreciate your interest in ETI products.  Further information regarding products described on this page can obtained by contacting Ron Brownell, Military and Telecommunications Product Sales, at 310/517-6162 or Ron.Brownell@L-3Com.com

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