The April issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! This issue features HF, VHF & UHF and is sponsored by our TC-20. Many years ago the MTT-S did not concern itself with wavelengths of a meter or more but we have broadened our horizons. We also have fourteen columns to educate you on what has been happening in our society and motivate your little gray cells. This summary will have to do until you can check out the Editor’s Desk column with the real scoop on this issue. And for an overview of the features check out the Guest Editor’s Desk column.

Our lineup of features takes us all the way from transistors to applications. This makes it a great overview for those wanting to understand what goes on in the HF, VHF & UHF world as well as those wanting to get an update on the latest that is happening at these frequencies. Our first feature is all about the transistors at the heart of power amplifiers. Maybe they are Si LDMOS or maybe they are GaN on SiC (silicon carbide). These things make huge amounts of RF power. One step up from transistors gets us to transmitters and our second feature is a great overview of transmitter architectures. The next four features are about making things happen with transmitters in the real world. We have a feature on the basics of communication technology and testing. And we have another feature on land mobile communications applications. We also have medical applications of RF power in a feature on power amplifiers for magnetic resonance imaging. I had an MRI last year and it is amazing what they can see within your body. Finally we have a feature on wireless power transfer WPT). WPT might charge your phone or it might power industrial vehicles.

Next we have our columns and please pay attention to the President’s Column. The MTT-S has each President for one year. Given the number of ‘cats to herd’ in the MTT-S, the President has a huge challenge to make a lasting difference. Our MTT-S Society News has more information on TC-20, the technical sponsor of this issue. We celebrate our international society in many ways. The Around the Globe column focuses on the IMAS 2025 meeting in Kenya and the Chapter Chair meeting that occurred in conjunction with the conference. Conferences are our life’s blood. We connect with people and establish a basis for the society. Our Conference Report this month is again about our IMAS meeting in Kenya in 2025 as well as our RFID-TA 2026 in Belgium. Chapters are a way we bring students into the benefits of the IEEE. This month’s Featured MTT-S Chapters column is about the Chengdu chapter and the legacy of Weigan Lin. How is it that women are 50% of the world population and only 28% are in engineering? Learn a bit more about this in our Women in Engineering column.

If the President’s Column did not get you thinking then the MicroBusiness column certainly will. This month we take sort of a revisit to what should our kids do for their life’s work but this time it is grandkids. For those of you still in school or questioning your career choice think about who gets to innovate and if you enjoy it. And for those with grandchildren we think a lot about health at both extremes of life. Our Health Matters columns reminds us of how much we engineers watch for health issues, and how political swings will change funding for regulatory research. This month our Educator’s Corner brings in some feedback on an Enigma’s, etc. column and a response from the author. How do you measure 100% efficiency? And this month we have a New Products column. New oscilloscopes and passive products are always fun to see. And although I am really an analog guy I love my digital oscilloscope. Finally we have our Enigmas, etc. column with a solution to last month’s column and the fun of admittance matrices.

As always, don’t forget to check out the Conference Calendar and please join us at the IMS in Boston this coming June.

Summary by
Alfy Riddle, PhD
Quanergy Solutions