About Us

Southwest Antennas is an antenna manufacturing company that provides a full range of technical services from initial product concept to final product manufacture. The technical staff at SWA has designed high performance microwave antennas of all types since 1983.

Having encountered the full range of product challenges and antennas issues, our technical staff draws from a clear understanding of what works, what does not, and why. Our analysis models, development processes, commitment to quality assurance improvement and our long history of successful internal and external antenna design and manufacturing are now available to help you meet the unique challenges of the high performance microwave antenna market.

Staff

Les Reading

Chief Technical Officer – President
Les leads the technical team at Southwest Antennas and has been designing antenna systems for a wide range of customers since 1982. His background includes several years as CTO of Galtronics where he trained, developed and led several antenna engineering teams in Israel, Scotland and China whose primary focus was on the design and manufacture of antennas for cellular radios. He holds a BSSE from the US Naval Academy, a MSEE from the Naval Postgraduate School, and did his post graduate work in Nuclear Engineering in the US Navy under Admiral Hyman Rickover, including assignment as the Engineer Officer aboard naval nuclear submarines.