George Harris Launches New Antenna Business


George Harris, the founder of RF Technologies, which was sold to The Ferrite Company in 2004, has started a new antenna buusiness.

According to an article by Amber Waterman in the Lewiston, Maine Sun Journal, Harris launches new antenna company, the sale included a clause that required the buyer to keep the company local for four years. In 2008, Ferrite pulled the company out of Lewiston five years after the sale.

Harris and business partner, Peter Robicheau, bought the facility, and this Monday reopened it as Micronetixx Communications. Waterman's article says Harris has more than $150,000 in orders in hand and anticipates more than $1 million in sales this year. Bill Ammons is back as the new company's VP of marketing and sales.

Products listed on the Micronetixx Web site include a wide range of VHF and UHF antennas as well as "TV Broadcast Antenna Engineering," "Antenna Pattern & Gain Evaluation," "RF Radiation (RFR) Levels reduction," and Transmission System Consulting."

Why is George Harris getting back in the antenna business?

"I love this field," Harris said. "At 4 years old I watched my dad talk to my grandfather on ham radio. I was fascinated. What really amazed me was you could talk through the air. I needed to understand it. I never stopped being fascinated by it."

Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.