Customer Challenge A customer approached Winchester with an application requiring three sets of three RF edge launch printed circuit board connectors, mating horizontally to the board with cabled connectors in the space of 0.875” x 0.375”. The application had to meet several requirements, including 1) a compact footprint for each connector, 2) ruggedized due to extreme operating conditions, 3) easily serviceable in the field, and 4) perform up to 20 GHz with 40 dB of RF isolation between each RF line. Further, a heavily tooled, highly custom design was undesirable due to lead time and the relatively low volume of the program. Challenge Review Winchester engineers identified several challenges that the customer would need to collaborate on, notably RF performance, connector densi

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