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    As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 3, 1997
                                                      Registration No. 333-23705

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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                         POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

                                       to

                                    FORM S-8
                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                   REMEC, Inc.
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             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

                 California                        95-3814301
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       (State or Other Jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer
       Incorporation or Organization)          Identification No.)

               9404 Chesapeake Drive, San Diego, California 92123
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                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

                 Radian Technology, Inc. 1987 Stock Option Plan
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                            (Full Title of the Plan)

      Ronald E. Ragland, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
                              9404 Chesapeake Drive
                           San Diego, California 92123
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                     (Name and Address of Agent For Service)

                                 (619) 560-1301
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          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                         Copy to: Victor A. Hebert, Esq.
                         Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe
                                 333 Bush Avenue
                         San Francisco, California 94104
                                 (415) 772-6000


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                                   REMEC, INC.
                         POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                       TO
                         FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                       FOR
                 RADIAN TECHNOLOGY, INC, 1987 STOCK OPTION PLAN

              REGISTRATION COVERS SHARES RESULTING FROM STOCK SPLIT


     On June 27, 1997, REMEC, Inc. (the  "Registrant")  effected a three-for-two
split  of the  Registrant's  Common  Stock,  in the  form of a  stock  dividend.
Pursuant  to  Rule  416(b)  of the  Securities  Act of  1933,  as  amended  (the
"Securities  Act"), the Registrant's  Form S-8 Registration  Statement (File No.
333-23705)  (the  "Registration  Statement")  is hereby  amended to increase the
number of shares of Common Stock issuable under the Radian Technology, Inc. 1987
Stock  Option  Plan from  90,445  shares to  135,667  shares.  The  Registration
Statement  is further  amended to reflect  that the number of shares  registered
includes  an  indeterminate  number of  additional  shares that may be issued to
adjust the number of shares issued pursuant to such employee benefit plan as the
result of any future stock split,  stock  dividend or similar  adjustment of the
Registrant's outstanding common stock.


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                                   SIGNATURES
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     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of  the   requirements  for  filing  on  Form  S-8  and  has  duly  caused  this
Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 1 to Form S-8 to be signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned,  thereunto duly authorized,  in San Diego, State of California,  on
October 3, 1997.

                                   REMEC, INC.



                                   By: *
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                                       Ronald E. Ragland, Chairman of the Board
                                       and Chief Executive Officer

                      POWER OF ATTORNEY TO SIGN AMENDMENTS
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     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,  that each person whose  signature  appears
below does hereby  constitute and appoint Errol Ekaireb and Thomas A. George, or
either of them, with full power of  substitution,  such person's true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact  and agents for such person in such person's  name,  place and
stead,  in any and all  capacities,  to sign  any or all  amendments  (including
post-effective  amendments)  to this  Registration  Statement on Form S-8 and to
file the same,  with all exhibits  thereto,  and other  documents in  connection
therewith,  with the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission,  granting  unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises
in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes,  as he or
such person might or could do in person,  hereby  ratifying and  confirming  all
that said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents may  lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act,  this  Registration
Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities
and on the dates indicated.



                                                                         
  *                                             Chairman of the Board,         October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------     and Chief Executive   
             Ronald E. Ragland                  Officer and Director  
                                                (Principal Executive  
                                                Officer)              




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  *                                             President and Chief             October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------     Operating Officer and 
               Errol Ekaireb                    Director              
                                                

/S/          THOMAS A. GEORGE                   Chief Financial Officer,        October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------     Senior Vice President,     
             Thomas A. George                   and Secretary (Principal   
                                                Financial and
                                                Accounting Officer)

  *                                             Executive Vice                  October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------     President, President of
               Jack A. Giles                    REMEC Microwave
                                                Division and Director

  *                                             Senior Vice President,          October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------     Chief Engineer and
               Denny Morgan                     Director

  *                                             Executive Vice                  October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------     President and Director
               Joseph T. Lee                    

  *                                             Director                        October 3, 1997
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            Thomas A. Corcoran

  *                                             Director                        October 3, 1997
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             William H. Gibbs

  *                                             Director                        October 3, 1997
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               Andre R. Horn

                                                Director                        October __, 1997
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               Gary L. Luick

  *                                             Director                        October 3, 1997
- -------------------------------------------
              Jeffrey M. Nash


*By /s/ THOMAS A. GEORGE
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        Thomas A. George
        Attorney-In-Fact



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