My team uses PSC-5s extensively. Air Force and all other units we work with (including the regular army) use the 117 and ask why we don't have it. It does seem to be a superior system. That said, the PSC-5D using the cable that connects from the data port on the PSC 5 to Serial Port on the Computer seems to work a lot better than using the ViaSat card in the computer. In my experience the data cable that connected to the VDC 400 card is not robust enough and breaks easily, and the cards themselves can fry if too much data is being pushed. The embedded VDC emulator in the PSC-5Ds is better.
The MBITR being used for SAT is ok in a bind, but it pushes less power than the PSC-5. Still we have used it and it is nice to have that on the PACE plan.
Here is a public link to the PSC-5D
http://www.raytheon.com/products/ste...s01_052968.pdf
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