Lt. Cmdr. Grant Wyman, Coast Guard Research and Development Center, and Tatsuya Kawase from Aerospace Corporation, perform antenna calibration procedures inside the radome, Jan. 17, 2019.
The radome also houses the rest of the communications components such as software defined radio, amplifiers and filters that ensure that the proper signals are transmitted to and received from the satellite.
U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of the Coast Guard Research and Development Center.