The company provides advanced technology solutions to meet defence requirements, and supplies a comprehensive range of tactical mobile antennas suitable for man-packs, vehicles and transportable remote applications.

Its antenna product line for the defence segment includes combined antennas for VHF/GPS, VHF/DECT, VHF/WLAN, UHF/GPS, UHF/DECT and UHF/WLAN.

For commercial use, Comrod supplies marine antennas for a number of different vessel types, from deep-sea fishing boats and workboats to cruise liners and pleasure craft.

Communication antenna control system

Comrod sees an emerging market in the defence segment for communication antenna control systems. Demand is shifting towards more sophisticated solutions, comprising alternative forms of communication (HF, VHF, UHF, etc) using various broadband applications. Combined with tougher requirements/more need for installations onto the platform, this has led to an increasing demand for such systems worldwide.

A typical systems application is as follows. The antenna system comprises an active antenna combiner and an antenna selector switch. It is primarily designed to reduce the number of antennas in an installation, and allows the simultaneous use of several radios to one transmit antenna or to individual directional antennas. A receive distribution amplifier is included to allow multiple receivers at the same time.