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TOT Get Their New Links

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Gigawave Sponsored DBR9 Shows its Paces
Barwell Motorsport engineers braved unseasonal sub-zero temperatures at a race circuit in southern Spain to test a new Aston Martin DBR9 that it plans to enter in the FIA GT Championship this Season.

Click here to view more images of the Barwell Test

On day one of the test, wintery showers kept the car in the pits until mid-morning. But then the sun came out and driver, Leo Machitski, was soon putting in some impressive lap times on the newly-refurbished Guadix Circuit.

Whilst externally, the DBR9 is similar in appearance to the Aston Martin DB9 roadcar and the DBRS9 GT3 car, the only common components are the chassis, the V12 engine block and heads, and the roof. To give some idea of how fast the DBR9 is, it can lap the Grand Prix Circuit at Silverstone in just 1'40", compared with 1'20" for a Formula One car.

Gigawave's sponsorship of the DBR9 is part of the company's ongoing development programme for its digital on-board camera system. According to Gigawave Chairman, Henry Barczynski:

"We learnt a great deal from our participation in last year's FIA GT3 European Championship, but realised that we needed to find a competitive GT1 car if we wanted to test our digital on-board camera system in extreme conditions.

The big advantage of the DBR9 is that GT1 cars compete in both 2-hour 'sprint' races and 1000km 'endurance' races. We also plan to run the car in the 24 Heures du Mans race next season. This is the ultimate test for car, driver, and our on-board camera system."

Guadix Circuit, Southern Spain - January 2007
Gigawave Training for Egyptian Engineers
Engineers from Egyptian Radio and Television have recently visited the Gigawave Technical Centre, where they received full product training on their new MVL-D2 point to point links.
The engineers studied digital theory, as well as completing theoretical and practical training on the MVL-D2 system with Gigawave’s Systems Manager, Mike Robinson. And despite the cold weather, they were given a demonstration of the system in action, to see the ease with which it could be set up and used.

Gigawave Chairman, Henry Barczynski, was on-hand to congratulate the ERTU engineers on completing the course and presented them with their training certificates.
ERTU have used their Gigawave MVL-D2 systems to cover many major events in Egypt including last year’s ‘African Nations’ football tournament.

Gigawave Technical Centre - January 2007
TOT Get Their New Links
TOT in Thailand have just taken delivery of their first Gigawave MVL-D2 digital point to point links.
John Rolfe and Dave White from Gigawave were on-hand to provide one week’s full training on the systems for TOT at their Bangkok offices. The training included looking at the principles of digital transmission, and theoretical and practical training on the MVL-D2 systems.

The Gigawave digital point to point links will be available for hire from TOT to broadcasters and communications companies across Thailand and are ideal for use in outside broadcasts and for news events.
The MVL-D2 Series is extremely popular within the industry because of its exceptional RF performance, making it ideal for carrying analogue SDI or ASI programme feeds. The transmitter and receiver have separate RF Heads and IF Control units, which can be separated by up to 600 metres of triax.

Bangkok, Thailand - January 2007

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