BRTC awards major contract to Gigasat

Gigasat has been awarded three tenders for the manufacture, supply and integration of satellite and microwave systems by Bahrain Radio & Television Corporation (BRTC).

The first is for a 3.7m dual DBS/Ku band fully redundant transportable earth station, which will be used as a backup for the existing Bahrain TV earth station, to uplink a bouquet of 10 channels to any transponder on Arabsat in DBS or Ku bands. The second is for a 2.4m Ku band fully redundant DSNG flyaway earth station for operation with Arabsat, Eutelsat & Intelsat satellites.

The third is for a fixed digital microwave link system for two way bi-directional transmissions of three video channels with two associated stereo audio channels, between Bahrain Radio & TV Studios at Isa Town and Batelco earth station at Ras Abu Jarjur.

The system utilises Gigasat FLV-110 series encoders, transmitters & receivers with redundancy on the encoding and decoding systems and redundancy on the RF transmit & receive chains.

"We have seen Gigasat equipment being used during the Formula 1 event in Bahrain, and it has been reviewed positively here," says Eng. Abdulla Al-Bulooshi, head of Earth Station & Transmission at BRTC.

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