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| News Stories and Events February 2004 Archived News Stories 2004 Archived News Stories 2003 Archived News Stories 2002 |
| Welcome to the Real World GCSE students at Honywood School were given a brief insight into Gigawave and its products during a 15 minute presentation given by Len Howard at the school, in nearby Coggershall. Len also presented NRA Certificates to the pupils.
Keen to develop encourage an interest in science and electronics amongst local schoolchildren, who are potential employees of the future, Gigawave offered to make the presentation and to invite students to visit the factory. 
Equipped with a digital wireless camera system Len Howard arrived in a Ferrari car used for testing on-board camera systems, both of which generated a great deal of interest amongst the pupils of the School. Then, after a short presentation, Len Howard presented NRA (National Record of Achievement) certificates to pupils of Honywood School. |
| Eco-Access Raymond Kirkland of SABC visited Gigawave recently, during a brief visit to the UK, to present the Company with a report from Rob Filmer, Honorary Life President of Eco-Access, regarding the 'Gigawave Twinning Wilderness Camp' that Gigawave funded
"Thank-you for your support and your belief in us and our project. We have been told that Eco-Access and our programmes probably have the most significant impact on South African society with regards to the inclusion of disabled people into our society. Your donation has helped us to achieve this!" Eco-Access was founded in 1994 out of Rob' Filmer's passion to see South Africa's magnificent natural heritage made accessible to all South Africans, including those people with disabilities.What started out as a dream for blind nature conservator, Rob, and his wife, Julie is now a vibrant, successful, non profit organisation that has changed the lives of many ordinary South Africans, including those with disabilities. The Gigawave Twinning Wilderness Camp took place early in 2004. Twelve students from the United Church School and twelve students from the Filadelfia Secondary School, together, with their respective teachers, attended this camp. The children from Filadelfia were all blind or partially sighted. The United Church school is located in the centre of Johannesburg. Many of the students are the children of “rural refugees” who live in very poor conditions, whilst the Filadelfia Secondary School provides education for blind, deaf, paraplegic, and other disabled children. It teaches in all of South Africa's eleven official languages as well as in Sign language. As with the United Church school, many of the children are from poor backgrounds. Click Here for more information about the work of Rob and Julie Filmer
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| la télévision Algérienne visits Gigawave Eight engineers from ENTV are visiting Gigawave for training in a wide range of digital products, prior to their country's presidential election, due to be held in April. The engineers are accompanied by two representatives of StudioTech, Gigawave's Algerian agent.
ENTV engineers will spend seven days with Gigawave. During that time they will undertake intensive training courses covering the D-Cam wireless camera system, MTV-D digital transmitter, and the new MVL-D digital link. Prior to the start of their product training, the ENTV engineers attended a one-day 'Digital Awareness' course given by John Scott , and were given a tour of the new Gigawave Technical Centre. During their time in the UK the ENTV engineers will be taken on a sightseeing tour of London and enjoy some of the hospitality that Gigawave is famous for.
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| Beware - Tráfico is Watching You! The next time that you are driving in Madrid watch out as Traffic Police might be watching you from the comfort of their control room thanks to a new digital downlink that they are evaluating.
Evaluation of the Gigawave digital downlink was organised by Aerlyper in conjunction with Gigawave Customer Support engineers. Based at Madrid's Cuatros Vientos Airport, Aerlyper supplies, installs, and maintains specialist equipment for airborne applications. For the demonstration, Tráfico's AS355 was equipped with a MTV-D digital transmitter, power amplifier (nominal 2W), and a Gigawave GPS controlled auto-tracking antenna. GPS data from the helicopter was transmitted via a UHF data link to control the ground receive antenna. Using only a portable GPS controlled auto-tracking antenna with MVL-D digital receiver and QPSK modulation a range of more than 100Km was achieved. Understandably, Trafico were extremely impressed with the results,especially as significantly greater range would possible using an auto-tracking parabolic dish antenna. |
| Mumbai Marathon Nearly 20,000 athletes led by world record holders, Indian celebrities, Bollywood stars and top industrialists pounded the streets of Bombay (now know as Mumbai) on Sunday 15 February in the inaugural Mumbai Marathon.
The host broadcaster was ESPN. However, rental specialist Broadcast RF were contracted by the organisers of the event, Mumbai based Procam International, to provide all the digital links used to transmit live images from three 'Motos' (cameramen on motorcycles) and one Wescam equipped helicopter to the ground receive site. Broadcast RF also provided all the communications equipment. All three 'Motos' were equipped with digital uplinks. The signals from Moto 1 and Moto 2 were relayed via two Gigawave digital 'Rebro' units in a mid-point relay helicopter, to the ground receive site. The digital 'Rebro' system, unique to Gigawave, relays digital signals without adding additional delay! Signal from Moto 2 and Moto 3 were relayed via 'Rebro' units in a second mid-point relay helicopter to the ground receive site on the roof of the Air India building. Here engineers routed the digital (SDI) outputs of the five MVL-D receivers to the OB Truck. |
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