The Canadian CG has awarded Seacoast Marine Electronics to supply the RHOTHETA RT-500-M The Canadian Coast Guard has awarded Seacoast Marine Electronics to supply the Rhotheta RT-500-M Marine Direction Finder System. Over the next 2 to 3 years, the CCG will be replacing the aging Radio Directions currently installed on the fleet. The RothetaRT-500-M is
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Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the fast response cutter Douglas Denman to the Coast Guard in Key West, Fla equipped with the Rhotheta RT-500-M wideband V-UHF radio direction finder, This is the 175th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 49th FRC delivered under the current program. FRCs are being deployed in
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Radio Direction Finding: An Essential Tool for Search and Rescue When you call 911 from a cell phone on land, the dispatcher can usually determine your location in just a few seconds between your phone’s internal GPS and the location information available from the cellular network. However, this is not necessarily the case when a
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Bollinger Shipyards LLC (“Bollinger”) has delivered the USCGC Glen Harris to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 167th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 44th Fast Response Cutter (“FRC”) delivered under the current program. The Glen Harris is the third of
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Wysong Enterprises announced today that the company recently completed a new Bell 407GXi helicopter for the Clayton County (Georgia) Police Department Aviation Unit. The aircraft was customized in collaboration with Clayton County personnel and Wysong Enterprises technical staff. The aircraft delivered was completed with Wescam MX-10 Sensor System, Troll Downlink, Churchill ARS700, Luminator Orion Searchlight, Genesys
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R/V Thomas G. Thompson (AGOR-23) is a Global-class research vessel owned by the United States Office of Naval Research and operated under a bareboat charterparty agreement by the University of Washington as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The Navy issued bid solicitations to the shipbuilding industry for a new oceanographic ship on May 27, 1987. Halter Marine, Inc. won the contract for the construction of Thomas G.
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