The Trinidad Program, better known as "SAR" - Synthetic Aperture Radar - needed to present a real-time demonstration of system capabilities from their mobile ground station but they lacked one thing.

A MOBILE GROUND STATION!

With the help of the W6TRW Amateur Radio Club the Trinidad program was able to deploy a mobile communications ground station at the Joint Interagency Task Force headquarters in Key West, Florida in less than four weeks...

The following article is from the "Aerospace Now" magazine produced by Northrop Grumman. The article "Strutting Our SAR Stuff" was written by Judy Sterling.