mWAVE Industries: Parent Company of Mark Grid Antenna
Established in 2004, mWAVE Industries, LLC, designs and manufactures standard and custom microwave antenna products for commercial and government applications spanning the scientific, defense, and academic communities.
mWAVE Industries Acquires Gabriel Antenna and Mark Grid Antenna in 2015
With the addition of its Gabriel and Mark antenna lines, mWAVE specializes in parabolic grids, solid parabolic antennas and feeds including conscan and monopulse designs. mWAVE’s additional product offerings consist of micro-strip arrays, horns, helices, sectors, omnidirectional antennas and waveguide arrays. mWAVE maintains a fully equipped antenna test range that is used to verify new antenna designs and for production verification and third party testing for its customers.
The History of Mark Grid Antenna
A leader in the development of microwave parabolic grid antennas since the 1960’s, Mark Antenna previously of Des Plaines, IL has been instrumental in providing rugged light weight antennas to the public safety, utility, carrier and energy markets including both government and military sectors.
Mark introduced the parabolic grid to the commercial wireless sector to alleviate the concerns of tower loading and wind loading on light-weight towers and roof-top installation sites. The innovative design initially designed for the military quickly became a standard in the utilities, energy and public safety sectors. Mark Antennas mainstreaming of this antenna design was soon followed by the Compak grid design that reduced antenna shipping costs for the four, six and eight foot diameter models.
These field assembled antennas filled a niche that allowed for reduced cost in shipping and ease getting the antennas to their ultimate installation site by way of helicopter or the confined spaces of elevators for roof-top installation sites. Most recently the grid antenna market has seen the need for smaller short haul grid antennas, Mark introduced the Super Short Haul and the smaller Mini Grid to facilitate the smaller and short range operators.
mWAVE Industries is pleased to acquire these two brands and to be able to have the opportunity to continue offering the Gabriel and Mark antenna brands to the communications industry worldwide.