TRIVAL ANTENE - Professional Military Antennas and Antenna Masts

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October 2011	Our migration to the new premises is finished. We invite you to read more .
September 2011	We are proud and excited to announce that TRIVAL ANTENE will be moving to a new premises end of September this year! We believe this milestone will make a big impact on our bussiness, so we have decided this should be appropriate time to make a paralel shift with a brand new company's visual identity. We invite you to read more .
June 2011	New VHF mobile antenna AD-18/D-2110, covering 20 - 110 MHz, 100 W.
June 2011	Modification of our existing VHF mobile antennas AD-18/D and AD-18/D-110 with a new design of the antenna base with new matching circuitry.
April 2011	New VHF antenna for manpack radios THALES - AD-25/CW-TA (ANT210-T), 30 - 88 (108) MHz, height of 1.65 m.
December 2010	A decision has been made to buy a new company's premises in city Menges. Due to the Due to the outstanding bureaucratic barriers no new buildings in the industrial zone Titan - SVIT in Kamnik Bakovnik was not allowed. Moving to Menges provided at the beginning of September 2011.
December 2010	New antennas AD-18/D-3512-DF and AD-27/V150-3512-DF - wideband dual-feed VHF/UHF antennas with separate connectors for VHF and UHF part and with integrated diplexer filter inside the antenna base.	-----
September 2010	New antenna AD-18/G-2210 - wideband UHF mobile center-fed antenna 225 - 1000 MHz.
June 2010	We've attended the military exhibition EUROSATORY 2010 in Paris France.
April 2010	New antenna AD-35/A-1470 - biconical VHF/UHF antenna 100 - 470 MHz for base station applications.
March 2010	New antennas AD-18/D-3512 and AD-27/V150-3512 - VHF/UHF wideband mobile antennas 25 - 512 MHz.
January 2010	New antenna AD-25/CW-3512 - blade whip antenna VHF/UHF antenna for manpack radios 30 - 512 MHz.
September 2009	New antenna AD-18/F - wideband VHF/UHF center-fed mobile antenna 108 - 512 MHz.
July 2009	New antenna AD-17/C-1512 - VHF/UHF wideband disc-cone antenna 108 - 512 MHz.
May 2009	Modification of our collinear dipole antennas family AD-23/2-2 (VHF) and AD-23/07-4 (UHF)
April 2009	New antenna AD-27/V190-3108 - short low-profile VHF mobile antenna 30 - 108 MHz with tilting mechanism and GPS antenna.
February 2009	Modification of the antenna AD-26/CW - long sectionalized VHF whip antenna for manpack radios 30 - 108 MHz.
October 2008	New antenna AD-65/A-1512 - blade whip antenna for handheld and manpack radios 108 - 512 MHz.
June 2008	We've attended the military exhibition EUROSATORY 2008 in Paris France.
March 2008	New antenna AD-44/E-CM - "center-fed" antenna for manpack radios 225 - 512 MHz.
January 2008	New antenna AD-39/2.3 - folded dipole for 118 - 137 MHz. This antenna was replacing the antenna AD-16.
August 2007	Production of radioamateur "Cubical Quad" antennas was discontinued.
July 2007	Web pages renewed
October 2006	New antenna AD-64/A ultra wideband manpack antenna for 225 - 2000 MHz.
July 2006	New antennas: AD-10/B and AD-10/C - wideband UHF dipole antennas for 430 - 1000 and 890 - 2000 MHz.
June 2006	We've attended the military exhibition EUROSATORY 2006 (12th - 16th June) in Paris France.
October 2005	New antenna for GPS devices: the AD-79/18D is a GPS active receiving antenna (L1) intended to be used as standalone or in combination with our standard VHF/UHF broadband mobile antennas type AD-18/D, AD-27 or AD-18/E.
June 2005	Modification of the antennas AD-10/A and AD-10/S . Frequency range extended to 512 MHz.
May 2005	New antenna for VHF handheld radios: AD-44/BW-D is a broadband flexible whip covering 138 - 176 MHz.
April 2005	New member of the family of the VHF mobile antennas: the AD-18/D-LP (30 - 90 MHz; low profile design)
December 2004	Modification of our antenna family AD-25/CW (more efficient internal matching circuit)
September 2004	We've attended the military exhibition SODOBNA VOJSKA 2004 (MODERN ARMY 2003) in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia
September 2004	Modification of our antenna AD-18/E . Internal circuit was changed and frequency range extended to 512 MHz.
July 2004	New antenna AD-40/07-9 (9-elements yagi antenna covering 390 - 475 MHz with 10 dBd gain)
June 2004	We've attended the military exhibition EUROSATORY 2004 (14th - 18th June) in Paris France.
February 2004	New family of whip antennas ( A-7142 , AD-25/C and AD-26/C ) for manpack and transportable radios
January 2004	New antenna AD-40/722-14 (directional yagi antenna; Gain 15 dBi; freq. range 698 - 746 MHz)
September 2003	We've attended the military exhibition SODOBNA VOJSKA 2003 (MODERN ARMY 2003) in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia
July 2003	New family of sectionalized mobile HF whip antennas AD-4/... ; together with various supports intended for mobile or stationary use. This family replaced the antennas A 2127, A 3127, A 5125 and A 6126 with supports AP-8, 9 and 10
March 2003	We've attended the military exhibition IDEX 2003 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
August 2002	We signed a contract with Slovenian MOD for supplying telescopic winch driven masts with accessories for a radio-relay system TTKS
August 2002	We've modified the antenna AD-17 (VHF disc-cone antenna): the new antenna is AD-17/B-110 . Compared with the AD-17 it covers 30 - 108 MHz range and with the additional vertical element the radiation pattern in vertical plane is significantly improved.
June 2002	We've attended the military exhibition EUROSATORY 2002 in Paris France. Amongst our products exhibited in the stand of Slovenian Military Industry section our antennas have been seen also on some of our customer's products (Harris, Aselsan, ELNO, L3 Comm's,.....)
April 2002	New antenna: AD-34/1G5-4; collinear dipole for freq. range 1465 - 1495 MHz; gain 4 dBd
January 2002	We developed a special telescopic mast height of 2.8 m for use on pocket submarines (STV-3/105). The mast was modified for use in the salt sea water and except some smaller parts made of Stainless Steel the mast was made completely of composite and other special materials.
June 2001	Two new antennas were developed intended for use with handheld VHF/UHF radios in the freq. range 30 - 400 MHz: AD-44/BW-AS-30-400 (short antenna) and AD-44/BW-AS-30-400 (long tape antenna).
April 2001	New member of the family of handheld VHF antennas AD-44/BW... - antenna AD-44/BW-BTX covering frequency range from 30 to 90 MHz with max. RF power level of 10 W and water submersion up to 40 meters.
March 2001	We exhibit our products on the Military Exhibition IDEX 2001 in Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates.
June 2000	Under the organization of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce - Military Industry Section and Ministry of Defense of RS we participated in Military Exhibition EUROSATORY 2000 in Paris France together with other 13 Slovenian companies different military application products.
May 2000	WARC add-on kits available for our Cubical Quad antennas AD-14-CQ/A and AD-14-CQ/C .
April 2000	Angle wall bracket type ADK-L was added to the family of antenna mounting hardware ADK-...
March 2000	Based on the construction of the antenna ADS-21/4-W we developed the antenna ADS-21/4-WB - wideband mobile antenna covering 30 - 90 MHz with magnet mount for use with VHF handheld and low power mobile radios with RF power up to 5 W.
February 2000	Modification and complementation of our antennas family AD-25/CW and AD-26/CW for use on manpack VHF radios.
January 2000	Modification and complementation of our telescopic antenna masts type STV : a stronger model with bottom tube diameter of 128 mm is now available (STV-.../128).
November 99	Modification and complementation of our antennas for use on handheld VHF radios type AD-44/BW and AD-44/CW
October 99	Once again our company participate to Slovenian Himalayan expedition forwarded by Tomaz Humar with goal to climb over south face of Dhaulagiri (8167 m). To improve the radio communications the crew used two of our antennas AD-40/2-3 (3-elements yagi antenna for 2 m band).
October 99	Finished development of new antenna for ISM frequency band (2.4 - 2.5 GHz): AD-34/2G4-5 (omnidirectional collinear with 5 dBd gain). We are finishing a parabolic antenna (90 cm offset reflector with approx. 22 dBd gain).
September 99	Under the organization of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce - Dept. of Military Industry and Ministry of Defense of RS we participated in Military Exhibition IDEF 99 held in Ankara Turkey between 28th of September to 1st of October. On the pictures you could see stand where 18 Slovenian companies showed their products intended for military use. You could see also our antenna AD-44/E on new ASELSAN's UHF handheld radio station.
July 99	PDF catalogues and the CD ROM catalogue renewed with new antennas.
June 99	We finished development of new HF antennas for radioamateur use: 4-elements 3-band "CUBICAL QUAD" for 14,21 and 28 MHz ( AD-14-CQ/C ) and for 21 and 28 MHz ( AD-14-CQ/D ). Also a WARC kit for 18 and 25 MHz is available for the AD-14-CQ/C.
May 99	We add so called "ground-plane kits" to antennas AD-18/D and JAS-12/M ( AD-18/D-GP and JAS-12/M-GP ). With "ground plane kits" the antennas are usable also as stationary mounted on appropriate antenna masts.
April 99	New types of coaxial surge protectors were added in our products list. Type ASP-...W is waterproof protector for 0 to 1500 MHz and the type ASP-.../WH is intended for use from 1500 to 2500 MHz.
March 99	Finished development of two new antennas: AD-18/E and AD-44/E : wideband antennas for use from 225 to 400 MHz. Type AD-18/E is a mobile antenna and the AD-44/E is intended for use with handheld and manpack radios.
January 99	We made our first CD-ROM catalogue. All files inside are in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader), both Slovene and English version. We used this opportunity to update all our catalogues, corrected many text errors, add more photos and renew drawings with technical details. Some of our (older) antennas were removed from production list. All those modifications will be utilized also in our web pages.
November 98	We renewed our popular AD-14-CQ/A cubical quad antenna and made new AD-14-CQ/B : two element two-band quad for 21 and 28 MHz. The most important thing is that no more tuning is necessary at the installation. At the end of March 99 we plan to develop new three-band (14, 21 and 28 MHz) three-element cubical-quad.
October 98	Participation on the exhibition MODERN ELECTRONICS 98 in Ljubljana. We exhibited our new telescopic winch driven mast (as co-operation with the company MASTSYSTEM), which is almost all produced in Slovenia. We exhibited also the original headset used by Ferrari mechanics - of course with our little antennas on it. By the way: in November we've been in Maranello on "working" visit (measurements, modification of headset with antennas in order to improve communication range). All measurements were made on the Fiorano track alongside beautiful noise of testing Ferrari's newest sport car...
September 98	Two new antennas: AD-44/BW (flexible) and AD-44/CW (blade); the wideband antennas cover from 30 to 90 MHz intended for use with portable and manpack radios. The model AD-44 is out of production.
July 98	CATALOGUES in PDF format are updated (General catalogue and Short Form one too). Due to the size of the General catalogue (over 3 Mb) partial catalogues of the antennas are added (separately for HF; VHF 30-90 MHz; VHF 145-175, UHF 400-1000 and for the 88 - 3000 MHz).
June 98	NEW ANTENNA: AD-36/2-10 is "corner reflector" antenna covering from 145 to 175 MHz.
May 98	NEW ANTENNA : AD-29/07-5 is heavy duty base station antenna for 0.7 m band and with 5 dBd of gain. The version from 410 to 430 MHz is now used by Slovenian national mobile telephony operator MOBITEL for NMT base stations to increase coverage.
March 98	Starting with production of the antennas for Ferrari Formula 1 racing team.
6-10. October 97	Participation on the exhibition MODERN ELECTRONICS 97 in Ljubljana. Among the other news a prototype of the new telescopic winch driven mast (co-operation with the company MASTSYSTEM AB Sweden) was demonstrated.
September 97	NEW ANTENNA : ADS-21/4-W is new wideband mobile antenna covering complete 4 m band from 68 to 88 MHz (SVR<2,5, height 100 cm). The antenna could be used with fixed support ADN-21/UHF or magnet mount ADM-21/UHF . The antenna was developed according to special requirements from German customer.
September 97	NEW ANTENNAS : AD-34/2G4 and AD-40/2G4-16 are antennas intended for use in wireless LAN (Local Area Network). The first type is dipole antenna with omnidirectional radiation pattern and the other one is directional (16-elements YAGI antennas enclosed in radome).
September 97	NEW ANTENNA : AD-18/D-110 is result of modification of the antenna AD-18/D. Due to the customer's requirements the frequency range is extended up to 108 MHz for covering also standard FM radio band.
September 97	NEW ANTENNA : AD-40/07-3 is three-element YAGI antenna covering frequency range from 390 to 475 MHz. A special version of this antenna is named AD-40/NMT-3 and is intended mainly for use with stationary NMT mobile phones (frequency range from 410 to 430 MHz)