DANIELS ELECTRONICS IS AWARDED A $1.3 MILLION CONTRACT WITH THE CANADIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Victoria, B.C. Canada - November 3, 2008 - Daniels Electronics Ltd., a leading Canadian supplier of high reliability Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment, today announced it has been awarded a $1.3 Million contract with the Canadian government for the assembly and test of assemblies used in the National Research Council of Canada Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (NRC-HIA) development of 84-116 GHz heterodyne receivers for the international Atacama Large Millimeter array (ALMA) telescopes. http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/projects/hia/receivers.html

ALMA will be located at 5000 m elevation in the Chajnantor Plain of northern Chile. The resolution and sensitivity of the array will constitute a great leap forward compared to existing facilities, making it the world?s pre-eminent radio astronomy facility of the next decades. NRC-HIA?s contribution to the project is 73 extremely sensitive 84-116 GHz receivers. The nucleus of the receiver is a superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) tunnel mixer which down converts the RF signal collected by the radio telescope to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal centered at 6 GHz with a bandwidth of 4 GHz. A cryogenic high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifier is used to amplify the IF signal by more than 30 dB before it is delivered to the ALMA Back-End System. The SIS detector and the HEMT IF amplifier must operate at a cryogenic temperature of 4 Kelvin. NRC-HIA has developed a cryogenic 4-8 GHz HEMT amplifier for this application.

"Daniels is very pleased to be awarded this substantial contract with the Canadian government to offer our expertise in precision assembly and testing of radio electronics for the National Research Council of Canada Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics," says Robert Small, President and Chief Operating Officer with Daniels Electronics. "The ability of a local Victoria company to compete and win in a global competition for such advanced technology shows the depth of the high tech industry in Victoria and the level of expertise companies such as Daniels Electronics possesses in support of our government's leading edge scientific developments."

About Daniels Electronics Ltd.

Daniels Electronics Ltd. is a North American leader in the design and manufacture of customized radio communications systems for specialized applications. For the past 50 years Daniels has provided our customers in North America and internationally with highly reliable base stations, repeaters and paging equipment that is environmentally robust and operates in rugged and extreme temperature conditions where low current consumption is a key requirement. For more information about Daniels Electronics, visit www.danelec.com.

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