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Celebrating 50 Years & Still Going Strong
First 50,000 watt Solid-state
linear amplifier.
Introduction of first 10,000 watt
tube amplifier.

50 years ago Don "Shep" Shepherd began designing power amplifiers in the basement of
his home, and selling them from the trunk of his car. He and his partner didn't realize it at
the time, but they were laying the groundwork for a company that would become a global
leader. AR would forever change the world of EMC and RF testing, and positively affect the
development of innumerable products in multiple industries.
"My basement was a great place to start," Shep says,
AR's first
"because the only place to go from there was up."
1 watt amplifier.
No one envisioned the heights that AR would reach.
Within three years, AR was selling amplifiers across the United States and into Europe.
The small company moved to a rented storefront in 1970, then to new headquarters
First AR storefront property.
just three years later. As AR grew, it began creating high power RF and microwave with
capabilities that no one had ever seen before. New innovations changed the industry and made developing, and testing new
products much faster, accurate, and more practical.
Some innovations that catapulted AR to international success include:
* 1976 - Introduction of first 10,000 watt tube amplifier spanning the 10 kHz to 100 MHz frequency range
* 1988 - First 100 watt solid-state, 100 to 1000 MHz linear instantaneous
bandwidth amplifier
* 1992 - 500 watt solid-state amplifier that covers 80 to 1,000 MHz
* 2003 - 10,000 watt Class A, 100 kHz to 250 MHz solid-state amplifier
* 2007 - 10-to-20 GHz 5-watt instantaneous bandwidth amplifier
* 2012 - First production 16,000 watt linear solid-state
amplifier to 225 MHz
* 2014 - 3,000 watt 1 - 2.5 GHz "S" Series solid-state
Class A amplifier
* 2015 - First 50,000 watt Solid-state linear amplifier produced,
then a 100,000 watt version a year later

AR acquisition of Kalmus, now AR Modular RF.

SunAR RF Motion.
First 100 watt solid-state,
100-1000 MHz instantaneous
bandwidth amplifier built.

amplifier to 1,000 MHz

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AR Benelux +31 172 423000
AR France +33147917530
AR Deutschland GmbH +49 6101 80270 0
AR United Kingdom +44 1908 282766

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today and tomorrow. AR warrants its amplifiers, antennas, test systems, power meters,
field monitoring equipment, conducted immunity generators, couplers and tripods to be free
of defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three years from date of shipment.
Traveling Wave Tubes on amplifier model 250T8G18 carry a two year warranty.
Vacuum and other traveling wave tubes as well as powerheads carry a one year warranty.

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Anritsu Company - California .................................................................www.anritsu.com/test-measurement .............................................................................. 7
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation .......................................................www.arworld.us .........................................................................................................3, 35
Astronics Test Systems ..........................................................................www.Astronics.com/Test ..............................................................................................IFC
CertifiGroup, Inc. .....................................................................................www.ulassistance.com...................................................................................................35
Copper Mountain Technologies .............................................................www.coppermountaintech.com ....................................................................................IBC
Dataforth.................................................................................................www.dataforth.com ........................................................................................................14
Digilent....................................................................................................www.digilent.com...........................................................................................................13
Educated Design & Development, Inc. ..................................................www.ProductSafeT.com .................................................................................................35
Elektro-Automatik...................................................................................www.elektroautomatik.us ..............................................................................................15
Kikusui Electronics .................................................................................www.kikusuiamerica.com/product/detail.php?IdFamily=0149.....................................31
Pickering Interfaces, Inc. ........................................................................www.pickeringtest.com ..................................................................................................BC
Pico Technology ......................................................................................www.picotech.com/A405 ................................................................................................. 5
PPST Solutions........................................................................................www.ppstsolutions.com ................................................................................................... 1
SIGLENT Technologies ...........................................................................www.SiglentAmerica.com..............................................................................................11
Signal Microwave ..................................................................................www.signalmicrowave.com ...........................................................................................30
TDK-Lambda ...........................................................................................www.us.tdk-lambda.com/lp/..........................................................................................19
Technologic Systems ..............................................................................www.embeddedarm.com ...............................................................................................21
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