On several days of each year, interference from  the Sun completely wipes out satellite communications here on Earth. The  phenomenon is known as a sun outage and for those who rely on communications at sea, it can mean trouble. Almost all  communications satellites sit in space directly above the Equator. Unfortunately, on exactly two days a year, so does our sun. These dates ...

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A sunset pic for Valentines day from a member of our global field service team! Romantic? Perhaps not, but it's still a great view from high up on this cruise ship in Hong Kong harbour. ...

That feeling when you get off the ship and you've fixed the VSAT! — in Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia. ...

What does a ship comms technician do in their spare time? Go and look at ship comms technology obviously. Mark took this excellent 360 on USS Midway after his visit to a yacht in Mexico last week. ...

This was stormy the scene over the back of the tender for our technician as he went ashore from a yacht anchored off Ao Po Grand Marina, Phuket, Thailand this week. The visit to complete a PM on dual TVRO and dual VSAT systems. ...

Congratulations to our customer Beau Geste and all the team, for their 5th place finish yesterday in the Sydney Hobart! https://www.facebook.com/BeauGesteRacing/ ...

To all our friends, thank you for your support this year and from everyone at Acutec, we hope you have a very Happy Christmas!!! ...

Welcome to the opening ceremony of the Thailand Yacht Show attended by the Deputy Prime Minister. — at AO PO GRAND MARINA ...

From the helicopter window today, our communications engineer will see the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful radio transmitter, on his flight offshore, supporting the oilfields off North West Cape. The Harold E Holt station operates in the Very Low Frequency (VLF) band, bouncing its signals between ocean and ionosphere to reach vessels 10,000 Km or more away. VLF ship antenn ...