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In this Issue:

1. Quote of the Month

"The TGRs have given us great service; they are rugged, reliable, easy to work on when they occasionally require it, and produce excellent records."

Seth A. Mogk
Geophysical Engineer
Scripps Institute of Oceanography/UCSD

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2. New E-mail Address

With the new move comes a new Internet provider.  For your convenience, EPC now offers the following e-mail addresses:

Department e-mail addresses:

Individual e-mail addresses:

For other individual e-mail addresses or further inquiries contact sales@epclabs.com.

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3. OTW Nets Results

At the recent Ocean Technology Network (OTW) hosted by the MOTN, EPC demonstrated a wide variety of products.  At the conference EPC presented the Model 9802 Thermal Graphic Recorder, GSP-1086-2 500 Series and the HSP-100.  In fairly bumpy seas, EPC demonstrated the GSP-1086-2 500 Series with an Edgetech DF-1000 Side Scan Sonar and Triton Elics International ISIS topside processor aboard the R/V Connecticut.  For more information on the R/V Connecticut contact: Larry Burch, Marine Manager E-mail: burch@uconnvm.uconn.edu or visit http://www.mstc.uconn.edu,

At the OTW New England Clam Bake Dinner, Ted Curley Sales & Marketing Mgr. of EPC presented the MOTN Member of the Year Award to Maggie L. Merrill of Marine Marketing Services. Ted Curley received the award in 1997.  Congratulations to Maggie in recognition of all her hard work.  In addition to her duties as Director of the MOTN, Maggie Merrill is also the Editor and Publisher of the Marine Technology Reporter, a quarterly publication that reports on vital interests to professionals in the field of marine, environmental science, and engineering.  http://www.marinet.com/MTR

The event attracted 135 attendees from over a dozen countries and will be held again in October 2001.

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4. MOTN Golf Scramble

At the second MOTN Golf Scramble, golfers braved rainy and gusty conditions at the Cape Cod Country Club in North Falmouth, MA.  With a score of 64, the winning foursome consisted of; John Duchesney, (Falmouth Scientific Inc.), Mark Warren, (Electronic Sales of New England), Steve Withrow (Trinity International Consultants), and Frank Federowicz (Woods Hole Group).  Also finishing with a 64 but losing on the tie-breaker was the foursome of Bill Dalton (Datasonics), Jennifer Stewart (Subconn), Ted Curley (EPC Labs, Inc.), and Scott Worrilaw (WHOI).  Bill Dalton won Closest to the Pin and Jennifer Stewart out drove the men to take the Longest Drive Prize!

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5. Sales: Scripps Adds On

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography has added a GSP-1086-2 500 Series printer to its growing list of thermal recorders.  The GSP-1086 will be used with the new Knudsen echosounder on their smallest ship, the 125 ft. R/V Robert Gordon Sproul, where the smaller footprint will be an asset.  Scripps uses EPC Model 9802 TGRs with the Knudsen 320 B/R 3.5/12 kHz echosounding systems onboard the R/V's Roger Revelle, Melville and New Horizon.  EPC Model 9200 TGRs are in service with the Sea Beam multibeam systems on the Melville and Roger Revelle, providing hard copy of the side-scan image and vertical beam profile.  In addition, a pair of 9800s serves the Shipboard Geophysical Group's portable seismic system, where they are used to create real-time plots of refraction data. http://odf.ucsd.edu/~seth/sgg.html, http://www.knudsenengineering.com

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6. EPC Welcomes First Visitors

With the paint barely dry and boxes still unpacked EPC has already hosted several visitors.  In only the second week of operation, the new EPC facility at 42A Cherry Hill Drive saw visits for NE Sales Representative, Paul Igo ESNE, ADS-640 owner Erik Zettler, SEA Education and the men of Coda Technologies; Cerri Reed, Bob Gauer and Colin Fox.

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7. New Product: D/A Converter

New from EPC is the D/A Converter.  The converter allows operators to print digital data (GSP-1086 compatible) to any analog recorder.  The digital data can be sent from the Parallel Interface of the host computer onto a 25-pin cable on the converter and then out two BNC cables to the recorder.  A trimpot on the unit can be used to adjust data width.

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8. Bulletin Board: For Sale GSP-1086

Available for immediate sale is a slightly used GSP-1086, EdgeTech DF-1000 Side Scan Sonar with DCI (Digital Control Interface) with 100m Coax Kevlar Cable either as complete system with PC and Processing Software or partly.  E-mail: igp@igp.de

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9. Holiday:  Thanksgiving

EPC Labs, Inc. will be closed at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, November 24th and for all of Thursday and Friday, November 25-26th in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.  Thanksgiving is observed on the 4th Thursday in November as a legal Holiday for divine goodness.  It also commemorates when the Pilgrims settled their differences with the Indians (Native Americans) and feasted on Turkey.  Today, it is a time when families get together and proves to be the busiest travel day in the U.S.

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Next Issue:  November 29, 1999