{"id":83707,"date":"2012-01-09T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T10:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/skycasters-unveils-new-8-1-meter-uplink-antenna\/"},"modified":"2012-01-09T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T10:26:17","slug":"skycasters-unveils-new-8-1-meter-uplink-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/skycasters-unveils-new-8-1-meter-uplink-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Skycasters Unveils New 8.1-Meter Uplink Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-09-12] <b>Skycasters<\/b> has reached a milestone in the company\u2019s teleport expansion project with the completion of a new 8.1-meter uplink antenna, the broadband satellite solutions provider announced Jan. 6.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The company said the new antenna, manufactured by <b>General Dynamics\u2019<\/b> Vertex division, provides significantly higher gain than its existing 6.3-meter antennas, and would add additional reliability and redundancy to their expanding satellite Internet teleport infrastructure.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe antenna\u2019s reflector is a thin skin of aluminum secured to a skeleton structure. The structure holds the aluminum skin in proper alignment, allowing it to focus captured RF energy on the feed. The giant 8.1-meter reflector is nearly four stories tall and had to receive clearance from the [U.S. Federal Aviation Administration] FAA prior to construction. It is supported by a nearly two-ton kingpost, which is bolted to the antenna pad,\u201d Skycasters said in a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-09-12] Skycasters has reached a milestone in the company\u2019s teleport expansion project with the completion of a new 8.1-meter uplink antenna, the broadband satellite solutions provider announced Jan. 6. &nbsp; &nbsp;The company said the new antenna, manufactured by General Dynamics\u2019 Vertex division, provides significantly higher gain than its existing 6.3-meter antennas, and would add additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}