There's more to radio than radio waves. While nobody actually sees the waves, millions of people across the globe feel their impact every day. Radio waves carry vast amounts of television programming throughout the world. They guide aircraft to distant destinations with pinpoint accuracy. They allow phone conversations never even dreamed of just a generation ago.

Navigation has become a pioneer in each of these applications and more. We bend over backwards to bring fresh thinking, user-friendly features and affordability to every design we produce. And it works.

Many design companies can point to one or two fields that they have had success in, but Navigation's designs range from below the Earth's surface to outer space. Our engineers are some of the brightest technical minds in the industry, and we're proud of it.

The Navigation team includes people that have designed spacecraft and ground-station antennas for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Voyager, NASA's SkyLink and the Deep Space Network. We have been active in the consumer satellite market since its earliest days. Try to imagine anyone having to dash outside and reposition a satellite dish by hand each time the channel was changed. We couldn't, so we pioneered the first automatic antenna actuators. Automatically aiming a ground-based receiver at anything at an altitude of 23,000 miles requires painstaking accuracy. We did it.

In fact, our latest actuator design for the tiny 18" dishes requires only a single button push from stow to show. In the home satellite field, we first brought stereo audio, Dolby® noise reduction, frequency synthesized audio and video reception, the first infrared remote sensor, and the first Smart Remote®. Our MMDS cable-TV systems are in use in Mexico, along with Navigation-designed scrambling equipment.

In the avionics industry, Navigation engineers designed hand-held aircraft radios, LORAN receivers, GPS receivers, flight computers, and even active noise-cancellation technology. We've designed aircraft black boxes that perform a myriad of functions, and even complete flight automation systems for the Boeing 727.

In the cellular industry, Navigation engineers designed one of the first hand-held cellular telephones to hit the market and we followed with ground breaking designs making cellular phones cost effective for every businessperson. Most recently we created a Wireless Local Loop System that eliminates the "last mile" of copper pair wiring. This system is capable of bypassing the local Bell and extending dialtone service out to a 20-mile radius. Our microwave data system, (wireless internet), provides an 11 Mbps data link that is currently serving more than 500 customers.

Our success is no accident. From day one, we were hired to take on designs that others wouldn't touch. We solve your problems. Our research and development team is made up of some of the most formidable minds in the business. People who insist on pushing an idea farther than the industry says it can be pushed.

We realize we don't have to do this. We do it because we can. Our latest design will soon be turning another industry on its ear.

We wouldn't have it any other way.

Call us today with your design problem.