Press Releases

April 6, 2006
STAR-H Corporation's Mike Jacobs and Kintronic Laboratories' Tom King will give a panel presentation on the KinStar antenna during the 2006 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference on Sunday, April 23 in Las Vegas, NV.  STAR-H and Kintronic will be exhibiting the KinStar jointly at the Kintronic booth during the exhibit hours April 24-27.  Stop by and find out more about how this unique antenna can solve your siting problems and improve your signal coverage.

October 26, 2005
The FCC has issued its public notice approving the use of the KinStar antenna by Class B, C, and D AM Medium Frequency broadcasting stations in the United States.  Stations can immediately apply for licensing of the KinStar and do not need to submit current distribution or field strength proof measurements.  The full text of the announcement is available in PDF format at:  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-05-2741A1.pdf

September 13, 2005
STAR-H is anticipating final FCC approval of the KinStar antenna for use by class B, C, and D AM broadcasting stations in the US.  Word from the Commission is that a formal announcement is forthcoming.

August 24, 2005
STAR-H will be debuting its SpectraStar™ spectrum monitoring and management system in the Team C4ISR booth at Milcom 2005 in Atlantic City, see www.milcom.org/2005 for more information.

March 22, 2004
STAR-H opens new R&D facility in State College, Pennsylvania.  The new location has nearly 2000 square feet of office and laboratory space, a machine shop, and vehicle work bay and warehouse space, with plenty of room to grow.  30 acres of land provides ample space for testing broadcast and HF antennas outside.  The location is just minutes from US routes 322 and 220 (soon to be Interstate 99) and the Penn State University campus, and is adjacent to the University Park airport.  STAR-H has also made a major investment in instrumentation and computer equipment so that it now operates a fully state of the art electronics design and testing laboratory.

October 21, 2003
STAR-H selected for two Army SBIR Phase II contracts.
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July 2, 2003
KinStar™ antenna receives US Patent and R&D 100 Award.
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February 4, 2003
Star-H Corporation presented the results of its full-scale field testing of the new KinStar™ low-profile MF/AM broadcasting antenna at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, April 8th during the Radio Transmission Forum of the Broadcast Engineering Conference at the NAB 2003 Show, April 5-10, in Las Vegas. Preliminary data has been published in the NAB RadioTechCheck for February 3, 2003. STAR-H was also at NAB 2003 at the Kintronic Laboratories, Inc booth in the Radio hall.