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COMSAT Maritime Tests

TV Transmission To

Queen Elizabeth 2

COMSAT Maritime Services re- cently performed a successful expe- riement transmitting a compressed 768 Kbps service from its Southbu- ry, Conn., Coast Earth Station to the Queen Elizabeth 2 of Cunard

Lines. The one-hour program con- taining NBC Nightly News, ESPN

SportsCenter, and Nightly Business

Report was sent to the vessel on the first leg of her world cruise.

Participants in the experiment were: • Cunard Line of London for the use of the QE2 as a platform-at-sea for receiving transmission of the TV signal; • Compression Laboratories of San

Jose, Calif., for the use of compres- sion data modem equipment; • Sea Tel of Martinez, Calif., for the use of the receive-only TVRO an- tenna; • Shipboard Satellite Network of

Northvale, N.J., for the program- ming skills and materials; • International Maritime Satellite

Organization (INMARSAT) for the use of the space segment; and • COMSAT Maritime Services for

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Circle 223 on Reader Service Card the use of Coast Earth Station facil- ities in Santa Paula, Calif., and

Southbury, Conn.

Up to eight hours of off-peak time will be made available in both oceans pending authorization by the

INMARSAT Council and the FCC.

It is expected this service will evolve into a video group call offering to be booked on a first come, first served basis.

For further information on the service,

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Specialty Systems Gets $10.1-Million Contract

For Technical Services

Specialty Systems Incorporated,

Toms River, N.J., is being awarded a $10,145,598 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and techni- cal services to assist the Naval Air

Engineering Center, Lakehurst,

N.J., in the initiation, design, devel- opment, production, deployment and retirement of Common Auto- matic Test Equipment (CATE) software. Work will be performed in

Lakehurst (90 percent), and Toms

River (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 1989.

Eighty bids were solicited and two offers were received. The Naval Re- gional Contracting Center, Phila- delphia, Pa., is the contracting ac- tivity (N00140-86-C-9411).

Hempel Offers Brochure

On New Two-In-One

Marine Coatings System

Hempel's Marine Paints, a world- wide coatings manufacturer, is of- fering a free color brochure detailing their recently launched two-in-one solution for on-board repair and maintenance, Combi-Coat.

The new two-in-one system com- bines both primer and finish in one coat, simplifying on-board repair, whether spot touch-up or general coating.

According to the brochure, the new system includes: Hempalin

Combi-Coat 1212, an alkyd-based coating for the maintenance of al- kyd systems; and Hempatex Combi-

Coat 4680, based on acrylic resin for the maintenance of chlorinated rub- ber, vinyl and similar coatings.

Hempalin and Hempatex Combi-

Coats are available in most standard shades, are easy to use, and only require normal surface cleaning and coating application.

Time spent on on-board mainte- nance is cut, stock levels and labor employed are reduced because of the product's simple application.

The color brochure provides an informative chart containing techni- cal data on both the Hempalin Com- bi-Coat 1212 and Hempatex Combi-

Coat 4680 systems.

For a copy of the free brochure and further information on Hem- pel's Marine Paints' Combi-Coat systems,

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