Skybrokers de-installed a VertexRSI 9.0m Earth Station Antenna for DieFernSehWerft in Berlin, Germany
Skybrokers de-installed a VertexRSI 9.0m Earth Station Antenna for DieFernSehWerft in Berlin, Germany
One of our first antenna projects where we had to remove an antenna from its foundation. The antenna had been used for broadcasting operations by Radio Deutschland RTL 2. The facility with antenna had to make place for new buildings. Our customer, Diefernsehwerft, requested Skybrokers to remove the Earth Station antenna and clean up the site. Skybrokers de-installed a VertexRSI 9m Earth Station Antenna was successfully completed with a three member installation team in September 2012.
Diefernsehwerft, GmbH. is an independent German Media- & TV Production and Broadcasting company headquartered in Berlin’s creative East Harbour quarter, home of many media companies. The company was established in 2007. Fernsehwerft’s major daily production is a breakfast TV magazine called “Frühstücksfern- sehen” on SAT1. They also produce the weekly format “akte 20.18”, an investigative journalism TV magazine.
VertexRSI offered the full range of earth station and base station communications products and was specialized in fixed and mobile satellite communication gateways, antennas, high power amplifiers, baseband products, frequency converters, controls and microwave components. VertexRSI offered design and engineering support as preparation for the installation.
Skybrokers offers for over 10 years VertexRSI Satellite Earth Station Antennas, new as well as used. We can provide turnkey solutions, refurbishment and upgrades. We supported several clients with new and used antennas, such as the VertexRSI 3.8m, VertexRSI 6.3m, VertexRSI 6.1, VertexRSI 7.2m, VertexRSI 8.1m and VertexRSI 9.3m.
The company was founded in 1973 and operated from 2004 till 2019 as subsidiary of General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, a USA based business unit of General Dynamics C4 Systems, operating as General Dynamics Mission Systems. VertexRSI was owned by Tripoint Global, a privately held company in New York who bought Vertex in 1999 from Vertex Corp. Tripoint Global was composed that time of RSI, Prodelin, Gabriel Electronics & Microwave and CSA Wireless Communications. Tripoint Global merged Vertex with RSI to become VertexRSI. GDSatcom acquired Trpoint Global in 2004.
In 2019 VertexRSI (GDSatcom) was acquired by CPI, Inc.