Puget Sound Instrument Company, Inc. was established in Tacoma, Washington, in 1965 by Raymond and Norma Hart. It now has Sales / Service facilities in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington. It's principal businesses include, the Two-Way Radio Communications, and the Navigation and Communication Electronics industry, with emphasis on large commercial vessels.

Employing a highly qualified staff, Puget Sound Instrument Company has dedicated itself to the pursuit of Technical Excellence in all aspects of the work that it pursues. This has manifested itself in the company's successful performance, and the company now has Sales / Service revenues of several million dollars per year, and a busy work schedule that includes work/contracts that have completion dates scheduled into the next several years. We sell to and service an installed two-way radio base of approximately six thousand radio units.

Under the leadership of President Richard Hart, Puget Sound Instrument Company continues to be a Communications / Electronics industry leader, by successfully completing jobs for customers who have critical use and or communication requirements that entail Public Safety or Safety at Sea. We are careful to select only responsible product manufacturers and engineering organizations who share our philosophy, that "our existence as a company relies on satisfied customers from services performed".

Our strongest feature however, remains our ability to complete a job in budget - and on schedule, after we have been hired to do a job for a customer. Our ability to do this is predicated on out local, and our wide level of in-depth knowledge and skills that is resident at Puget Sound Instrument Company.

Some of the large projects most recently completed include:

METRO TRANSIT - SEATTLE
PSI Co. successfully completed a major installation and system testing project with the Harris Corp. for the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle - Metro Transit. PSI Co. was contracted by the Harris Corp. and Metro Transit to install and perform operational testing of over 1200 transit vehicle UHF and 800 MHz mobile radios systems. These mobile radios were to operate with Metro's newly installed Simulcast system and Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system, which is interconnect via a microwave radio backbone network. Each bus radio system consisted of a mobile radio with a status control head and its antenna system, a sign-post receiver and its antenna system (part of the new AVL system), odometer sensor, silent alarm and a special power distribution panel. We also install the bus intercom system. This project was on a very tight time schedule and budget, PSI Co. completed the project ahead of schedule and on budget. Also, up to the time of Metro Transit hiring their own radio technicians, PSI Co. performed all of Metro Transits radio communications repair and preventative maintenance work, which was contracted for approximately 12 years.

MADIGAN ARMY HOSPITAL
This project included the design, sale and installation/implementation of a customized doctors paging system and nurse call paging system. The Doctors Paging System consisted of a Quintron VHF digital transmitter and antenna system, a 1000 call Zetron Model 2200 paging terminal, PC control terminal and inter-connected to the hospital telephone PBX system. The Nurse Call Paging System was designed as a special product to provide alpha-numeric paging messages to be displayed on paging receivers to assist limited nursing personnel with patient care information and assignment. What makes this system special is the equipment design. Two UHF Quintron digital transmitter was employed and to be driven by three Zetron Model 2200 paging terminals capable of receiving data messages from 20 PC terminals at nursing stations throughout the hospital. Also a special radio paging -telephone console was interfaced by PSI Co. to the existing hospital Executone PBX telephone system. Medical personnel could then perform paging requirements from any telephone or Executone Nurse Call box in the hospital.

Two of the Zetron paging terminals were to be active at all times with the other in a standby condition. One of the Quintron transmitters would be selected by the standby Zetron for hot-standby use also. The system was designed and operates to provide 24 hour emergency communications for hospital personnel. PSI Co. completed their portion of this project on time and within budget guidelines.

SNOPAC - E911 DISPATCH CENTER
PSI Co. was awarded this project, even through we were high bid (Motorola was low bid), because of the technical and operation merit of our proposal response and the technical enhancements of the Orbacom Communications Dispatch System we presented. The SNOPAC facility in Everett, Washington is one of the largest E911 Centers in the state. PSI Co. provided the customer with 11 dispatcher/operator positions, each position capable of handling up to 100 radio channels. Each operator position runs from a Central Processing Unit (CPU) with built-in redundancy. Besides dispatching radio channels, each operator position could provide telephone interconnect, paging, cross-channel rebroadcast, simulcasting of channels, remote receiver control, channel voice recording and emergency alerting. Once again, PSI co. completed this project on schedule and within budget.

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ADOT)
This project involved the design and installation of a multiple radio frequency rebroadcast, distribution and dispatch system for the Phoenix Downtown By-Pass Tunnel (LID Project). PSI Co. supplied 11 transceivers, a special multiple frequency transmitter/receiver combining system, receiver voting, radio audio distribution amplifiers, Radiax Coaxial Cable-lossy antenna system run throughout the tunnel, a simulcasted low power deck antenna system and installation with system optimization and alignment. This system was completed on time and in budget.

Other projects of considerable size and complexity are:

● Lone Star Cement -
Maintenance of 160 mobile data terminals and 800 MHz trunking radios.

● Washington State Dept. of Transportation -
Mercer Island/I-90 Communications System for I-90 By-Pass Tunnel (LID Project).

● Washington State Ferries -
Supply of Navigation Radars and Gyrocompasses. We also have also successfully completed a 24 hr. and 365 days per year maintenance and repair contract with this Washington State Department.

● Garfield County Sheriff Department -
E911 Communications Dispatch Console and Communications Antenna Tower
Project.

● King County Fire Protection Dist. #39 -
E911 Communications Dispatch Console and Voting/Satellite Receiver System.

Puget Sound Instrument Co. also sells and services products such as logging recorders, microwave, laser, radar, sonar, spread spectrum, GPS, metropolitan area networks, two way radio, telephone systems, multiple address and satellite communications to an international customer base. Other customers include; US Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA, Alaska Airlines, Johnson Controls, Pan Am World Services, Charles Schwab, and numerous ports, schools, hospitals, universities, cities and state agencies.