Waveguide Solutions – Aaronia once again surprised trade visitors with innovative solutions, this time including high-frequency waveguides for simplified setup of waveguide measurement applications, as well as waveguide and coaxial connectors for direct PCB mounting. Solderless PCB connectors with identical footprints allow screw and waveguide connectors to be swapped at any time. These are currently designed for WR08, WR10, WR12, and WR15 waveguides, as well as 1-mm and 1.85-mm coaxial connectors. “Every detail is crucial to the final quality of our products,” says Peter May, Head of Measurement Technology at Aaronia AG. “Accordingly, we devote the same attention to every component and meticulously refine every detail until the end result meets our standards for manufacturing the world’s best products ‘Made in Germany’.”
In addition, the Aaronia analyzers of the SPECTRAN® V6 family once again caused a sensation, as they
enable the digitization of enormous real-time bandwidths, offer impressive sweep speeds, and cover vast
frequency ranges. The SPECTRAN® V6 real-time spectrum analyzers of the XPR family, for example,
with sweep speeds of >3 THz/s or real-time bandwidths up to 490 MHz—some equipped with state-of-theart waveguide technology—impressed the technical audience at Satellite in Washington, D.C. The ease
of analyzing high-frequency and rapidly changing signals in the microwave range, as well as their
evaluation, was a resounding success, as was the model-dependent frequency range from 9 kHz to 140
GHz.
The 100XA-18 model from the SPECTRAN® V6 ECO family features a frequency range of 9 kHz to 18
GHz and an RTBW of > 50 MHz. In addition, the already impressive standard sweep speed of
approximately 500 GHz/s can be increased to over 3 THz/s via a software license—all through a single
USB 3.1 port. “The analyzers demonstrated their strengths particularly in the X and Ku bands, which are
used for military and commercial applications such as SatCom,” adds May. “For the first time, we were
able to demonstrate the SPECTRAN® V6 MOBILE 100TA-18 device, based on our proprietary tablet PC,
to an interested audience of industry professionals. It is the world’s first portable real-time spectrum
analyzer with a sweep speed of well over 1.5 THz/s at an 18 GHz span. Trade visitors were enthusiastic
about this portable, high-performance solution for monitoring and geolocating high-frequency signals in
April 13, 2026 | Aaronia AG Makes a Splash in Washington, D.C. the 18-GHz range. The SPECTRAN® V6 MOBILE 100TA-18 solves a fundamental problem in satellite communications: the simple detection of interference during live operation of the ground station.”
Similarly, the new AARTOS direction-finding solutions caused quite a stir, such as the AARTOS DF9
solution based on IsoLOG and the SPECTRAN® V6 Command Center. The combination of a highperformance direction-finding antenna array, an extremely high-performance multi-receiver processing unit, and the powerful RTSA-Suite PRO PC software creates a DF (direction-finding) system capable of reliably detecting and locating any signal over distances of several kilometers. A network of systems enables the geolocation of every signal within the respective system’s reception range, which is also available for C-, X-, and Ku-band.
