Transportables
Almost two-thirds of the Company’s business is derived from the “transportable” (or “mobile platform”) market. The first transportables were constructed for the Company’s own use, with a small fleet of C-Band and Ku-Band trucks operating throughout the early years of the company. (One of these was the first single-piece truck unit ever designed; another was the second C-Band truck manufactured in the United States.) This rolling stock and the associated operations were spun off in later years to another company, RF Scientific Transportables, Inc., and the firm’s activities were focused solely on the construction of these units.
SSI has produced a wide variety of C-Band, XBand, Ku-Band, and Multi-Band units over the years for both domestic and international clients. Customized C- and Ku-Band trucks have been delivered to clients as near as Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and as far away as Senegal and the Ivory Coast in Africa and Xinjiang Province in far Western China. A telecommunications company in Argentina uses a special semi-trailered Ku-Band unit; the Sultanate of Oman ordered a two-camera satellite uplink and mobile production truck for the Ministry of Information; China operates a fleet of SatCom Scientific Ku-Band trucks as “Emergency Communication Vehicles.”