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Comsat Expands SeaMail

With Instant Electronic

News In Seven Languages

Comsat Maritime Services re- cently announced the latest addi- tion to the portfolio of information services available on its SeaMail electronic mail service. Called "InstantlNews," the new service allows mariners, wherever they are, to receive a variety of daily news- papers from eight different coun- tries in six languages that cover

American, British, French, German,

Italian, Norwegian, Pacific and

Spanish news.

Customers with Comsat's

SeaMail service will be able to print out distribution-ready newspapers that include a summary of national news, including sports and finan- cial highlights. The InstantlNews newspapers are provided by Infor- mation Management Consultants,

Ltd., Liverpool, England.

InstantlNews is being offered by subscription for a monthly fee, or on a pay-per-access basis.

Comsat Mobile Communications, based in Washington, D.C., provides maritime, aeronautical and inter- national land mobile services to cus- tomers around the world through its two land earth stations in Cali- fornia and Connecticut.

For more information about the new InstantlNews service,

Circle 62 on Reader Service Card according to the schedule set by the designers, Papenburger Meyer

Werft. The first new building, no. 101, is expected to be delivered in

April 1992, with no. 102 scheduled for May 1992. The third vessel, no. 103, is scheduled for delivery in late 1993.

For further information and free literature describing Krupp MaK engines,

Circle 65 on Reader Service Card $8.5 Million Contract

Awarded By Navy To Tracor

For Antisubmarine Program

Tracor Applied Sciences, Inc. a subsidiary of Tracor, recently received an $8.5 million contract from the Naval Undersea Warfare

Center (NUWC) to provide analyti- cal, installation and checkout, and test and evaluation services sup- porting the NUWC Antisubmarine

Warfare Systems Department.

K. Bruce Hamilton, president of Tracor Applied Sciences, said

Tracor will provide engineering ser- vices supporting the basic AN/SQQ- 89(V) Antisubmarine Warfare Sys- tem, advanced baseline systems, and developmental sonar systems. This three-year contract is a continua- tion of work Tracor has performed during the past several years.

Krupp MaK Engines

Ordered For Three

Hurtigruten-Line Ferries

Krupp MaK of Kiel recently ob- tained orders for the supply of com- plete propulsion plants for three new ferries for the Norwegian

Hurtigruten-Line, to be built by

Volkswerft Stralsund.

Each of the ferries is to be equipped with two Krupp MaK se- ries 6M552C main propulsion diesel engines, each with a rated output of 4,500 kw at 500 rpm; two reduction gearboxes with main clutches and

PTO-PTI shafts, two large shaft generators which can be operated as drive motors; and two controllable pitch propeller systems.

A special feature of this concept is that during normal operating service, at a cruising speed of 15 knots, the total output of about 3,000 kw plus 800 kw for shipboard power is supplied by only one engine. The other 1,500 kw of power is absorbed by the propeller.

The engines are supplied for operation on 380 cSt heavy fuel and will be mounted within the hull in order to reduce noise and increasing comfort levels for passengers and crew. The Krupp MaK expert sys- tem Dicare Online, a continuous engine diagnostics system, is incor- porated in the scope of the order.

The building of these vessels be- gan in late 1991 and is proceeding

Now WITH 3 YEAR WARRANTY!

Also available: the eight-channel

HX340 UHF or VHF.

Intrinsically

If all you want in a marine hand- held VHF is portability, maybe the Horizon HX220AS is too good.

Sure it meets the industry guidelines for explosive environ- ment applications. But it also has the punch you get from six watts of transmitting power, full-on microprocessor control, gold bat- tery contacts for reliability, gen- erous moisture protection, and careful, intelligent engineering.

It receives all U.S., Canadian and international channels as well as 10 weather channels, and can be programmed to scan any number or combination of them automatically.

One-touch channel selection as well as direct access to chan- nel 16 and the weather channels is so easy it can be done in heavy gloves. The LCD display is over- sized and backlit. And options like the external speaker/micro- phone which allows hands-free operation make it ideal for tank- ers, tenders and oil rigs.

The HX220AS is a lot of radio in a remarkably small and light- weight package. To find out more about it, or about Stan- dard's intrinsically-safe eight- channel HX340 UHF and VHF handhelds, call or write today.

Just to be on the safe side.

Nothing takes to water like Horizon. §; Standard ® Communications

P.O. Box 92151

Los Angeles, CA 90009-2151

Telephone: (310) 532-5300

Represented in Canada by:

CARDON. Hamilton. Ontario 416/527-1040

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