Harris Demos High Frequency Antenna Control Unit in Extremely Adverse Sea Conditions

SAN DIEGO and MELBOURNE, Fla., Feb. 2, 2007/Satnews Daily/ ― Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has successfully demonstrated that its advanced Antenna Control Unit (ACU) can help track a satellite and maintain a communications link in extremely adverse sea conditions, including wave heights of more than 45 feet.

Harris said the demonstration met the performance requirements for the $1 billion next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal program that Harris is pursuing.

Harris said test showed that its control unit for the Harris-produced Super High Frequency AN/WSC-6(V)9 Multiband Shipboard SATCOM Terminal can control the antenna so that it can continue to track a satellite and maintain the communications link under sea conditions equivalent to the most severe, as defined in Department of Defense Standard 1399, including wave heights of up to 45.5 feet.

“Harris is continually advancing the state of the art in shipboard satellite communications technology, and this is another example of our commitment to putting the most reliable equipment into the hands of warfighters on land and at sea,” said Sheldon Fox, vice president and general manager of Department of Defense Programs of Harris Government Communications Systems Division.

The Harris AN/WSC-6(V)9 Multiband Shipboard SATCOM Terminal provides reliable, high-data-rate X- and C-band communications to deployed small combatant and support naval ships, Harris said. The test was performed at Harris laboratory facilities in Palm Bay, Florida, using a new version of the WSC-6 operating in the Ka-band frequency.

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