Rajant Enhances Airport Operations
Partnership Provides Critical Telecommunication Support to the Morehead-Rowan County Airport
Rajant is currently providing network coverage to Clyde Thomas Airport in Morehead, KY. using its proprietary “Breadcrumb” radios to establish a point-to-multipoint connection. This network leverages the water tower near Rajant’s office as a key infrastructure component. The solution became essential due to the lack of reliable ISP coverage in the area surrounding Rajant’s manufacturing facility. The network enables the airport to perform critical operations such as weather broadcasts and supports Voice over IP (VoIP) communications for airport staff. The issue was exacerbated when the airport’s previous ISP experienced a prolonged outage, leaving the facility unable to process credit card transactions for fuel or accurately report local weather conditions.
Jim Tom Trent, Rajant New Business Development, offered to set up its first POC (Proof of Concept) utilizing the MMRC (Menifee, Morgan, Rowan County) Industrial Authority’s water tower. The premise was simple, deploy a couple of Rajant’s strongest and most rugged “BreadCrumb” radios on the top of the water tower and then find structures, homes, businesses within 3-5 miles
of the tower and install one of their other BreadCrumb models to see if streaming the internet to those locations was feasible.
Thus far the results have been excellent. The first location to benefit from this POC was Pennington Farm Meats & More, which has had internet connection via this project for over a year. The airport has two radio models that are being used in this POC. The larger one is the main transmitter that is deployed on the tower, called a Peregrine. The smaller white one is the receiver being utilized at the airport, called an ES1.
Rajant’s CEO, Bob Schena, strongly believes in not only becoming active in the communities where Rajant has a facility, but also helpful to that community. Bob sees this successful POC as just the beginning for the endless opportunities that this opens for our friends and neighbors who reside in one of the most challenging terrains in the nation.
—Jim Tom Trent, New Business Development
Rajant Corporation
January 2025
Morehead-Rowan County Clyde A Thomas Regional Airport
1800 Rodney Hitch Blvd, Morehead, KY 40351