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The digital television transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming. It was originally set for December 31, 2006, but was delayed several times due to multiple government acts being enforced on broadcasting companies.
Consequently, a digital converter box – an electronic device that connects to an analog television – must be used to allow the television to receive digital broadcasts. In the United States, the government subsidized the purchase of such boxes for consumers via their coupon-eligible converter box program in 2009, funded by a small part of ...
May 1994: ITT wins a sole-source contract for the airborne radio. 1997: ITT became the sole source supplier of the new half-size RT-1523E radio to the US Army. 2006: The RT-1523F/SideHat configuration provides a 2-channel capability. July 2009: ITT wins RT-1523G platform development, $363 million contract. Partnered with Thales Communications Inc.
The AN/PRC-77 entered service in 1968 during the Vietnam War as an upgrade to the earlier AN/PRC-25.It differs from its predecessor mainly in that the PRC-77's final power amplifier stage is made with a transistor, eliminating the only vacuum tube in the PRC-25, as well as the DC-DC voltage converter used to create the high plate voltage for the tube from the 15 V battery.
Pages in category "Military radio systems of the United States" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total.
The AN/PRC-150(C) Falcon II Manpack Radio, is a tactical HF-SSB/ VHF-FM manpack radio manufactured by Harris Corporation. [1] It holds an NSA certification for Type 1 encryption . [ 2 ] The PRC-150 is the manpack HF radio for the Harris Falcon II family of radios, introduced in the early 2000s.
The 2014 DCMS Digital Radio Action Plan can be found here: Digital radio action plan. Following the Government's statement on digital radio at the end of 2013 it has now published a range of supporting documents here. These include a preliminary analysis of the effect of a switchover, as well as a number of documents addressing technical and ...
The PRC-163 is one of the Handheld, Manpack & Small Form Fit (HMS) components [3] of the Integrated Tactical Network family of radios, [1] the U.S. Army's modernization strategy for tactical radios. It is a member of L3Harris' Falcon IV family of tactical radios, and the successor to the Falcon III-family AN/PRC-152 Multiband Handheld Radio .