North American Satellite Corporation

The subject of remote tank gauges is a hot topic with propane marketers. The NPGA Marketer's Management Forum (Group F) recently sought comparative information about the various solutions in the marketplace. North American Satellite Corporation ("NASCorp") was asked to respond. NASCorp submitted to NPGA the following answers to their questions which, in NASCorp's case, were questions asked by propane dealers of propane dealers. Over 30 NASCorp employees and stockholders banded together years ago to create SkyTracker™ Tank and Home Monitoring Systems, which are the first and only remote monitoring system on the market today that are manufactured by propane dealers for use by propane dealers around the World.

1. What is the system 'name'?
2. What are the components of your system?
3. How many years has the current release of your system been in production?
4. What generation is your current system?
5. What type of fuel level sensors can be used with your system? Which do you prefer?
6. Can your system be used on refined products?
7. What is the warranty period and what does it cover?
8. How is the signal transmitted (satellite, phone line, RF, or cellular)?
9. What are the advantages of your transmission over the other methods?
10. What are the disadvantages of the methods you do not use?
11. Do trees, buildings, or mountains obstruct communication?
12. What is the power supply for the tank transmitter (battery, solar, other?)?
13. Why did you select this (THESE) type(s) of power supply?
14. If battery - What are the major features? What is the life? What is the replacement cost? What expertise and time is needed to replace the battery?
15. If solar - What are the major features ?
16. What technical expertise and time is needed for each installation?
17. Can your system be used on underground tanks?
18. What is the effect of severe weather conditions (extreme cold and heat, hail, strong wind, ice storm) on your system?
19. How does your system protect against theft?
20. What is the signal strength and distance?
21. Are there secondary uses for the unit receiver?
22. Is your unit UL approved?
23. What diagnostics are built into your system?
24. Is there a field diagnostic tool available for the system?
25. What are the primary causes of system malfunction?
26. Is scheduled periodic maintenance required?
27. How often can data be captured from the tank transmitter?
28. What base display options do you offer?
29. What types of alarm are supported?
30. How is the alarm reported?
31. Who owns the host data receiving computer?
32. Is special hardware or software needed?
33. If yes, what is the cost?
34. What percentage of installations fail within six months of installation?
35. What is the expected life of a unit?
36. What percentage of your sites are installed successfully?
37. Does the system have a mechanism for extending the range from tank to base unit?
38. Does the company have full regulatory approvals on their devices?
39. What installation support equipment exists to assist installers?
40. Is your system adaptable and integrated with other technologies?
41. For systems with primary batteries, how do you know the time that transmitters will last in the field?
42. Is the customer required to use the company's data services?
43. What data analysis capabilities do you provide?
44. What is the initial cost per unit by component for each installation of your system (assume 100 unit purchase)?
45. Do you assess periodic service, monitoring, data transmission, etc. fees?
46. What separates your system from your competitors?
47. Anything else you want to say about your system that was not asked?
48. Describe your customer service support?
49. Do you have your own design and technical support staff?
50. Do you have an established track record with telephony?
51. Do you have an R & D budget?
52. Do you have future product generations being developed?
53. How many of your systems are currently installed on?
54. What is your company's belief about the role this technology will play in the evolution of the propane industry?
55. What capabilities in your company are you most proud of?
56. Is the company's technology protected?
57. Anything else you want to say about your company?
58. What does the Industry demands?
59. What is the SkyBrain™ Processor?
60. How does Skytracker™ work with Degree Days?
61. What type of hardware has NASCorp selected for data processing?
62. Is my data secure?
63. How does SkyTracker™ works?
64. What are the functions of SkyTracker's™ SkyBrain™ ?
65. How is SkyTracker™ configured?
66. Is it quick to Install?
67. Safety, Convenience, & Security
68. How does SkyTracker™ compare to other monitoring systems?
69. No Brainer?
70. Tell me about SkyTouch™ Screen
71. What is a Two-Way Satellite Platform Internet (Global Village)?

Q: What is the system 'name'?

SkyTracker™ is manufactured by North American Satellite Corporation ("NASCorp"). NASCorp's SkyTracker™ firmware, software, multi-lingual dealer tank and customer information data base, the dealer recovery Website, the Application Programming Interface (API) and NASCorp's Windows based cellular access products are trademarked, copyrighted and/or have patents pending and are the property of NASCorp. All applications were developed by NASCorp for use with NASCorp's SkyTracker™ Tank Monitoring Systems, which includes the personal safety products of SkyHelp Services™ and SkyHome Monitoring™ smart home options.

Q: What are the components of your system?

SkyTracker™ is a self-contained Low Earth Orbital (LEO) satellite transmitter with internal battery pack that mounts directly on any container (ASME, U-69, diesel or refined fuels tanks) in under five minutes or next to a tank in an in-ground meter or valve box, as would be the case for underground containers.

SkyTracker™ does not require any other component to read the liquid level of a container, so nothing is installed in a customer's home or business unless the dealer sells their customer Carbon Monoxide or Propane Leak Detectors or the Indoor Low Temperature Sensor of SkyTracker's™ resalable safety products known as SkyHelp Services™. SkyHelp Services™ safety alerts are carried outside the home by SkyTracker™ to up to 100 people, which is great for second homes or vacation homes or where children or elderly are at home.

Q: How many years has the current release of your system been in production?

A prototype of today's SkyTracker™ was first operational 18 years ago. A version number was not assigned as it was developed to see if it could be done. It could, but was not cost justified then. Communication of those first transmissions went to Pat Walsh, Ferrellgas, then and, later, to Milford Therrell ( May 1994 & 1999-2000) of National PERC & Squibb-Taylor.

SkyTracker™ I units were first introduced in 2004 and configured for expedited operation. SkyTracker™ I units still transmit today and have 6 years equivalency of transmissions to orbital satellites (reporting three times more often than the norm).

SkyTracker™ II, which is today's version, added the home monitoring safety features of SkyHelp Services'™ (CO and Propane Leak detection sensors and the Indoor Low Temperature sensor) to the prior version. SkyTracker™ II has been deployed since 2005. Thousands of SkyTrackers™ are being used by over 100 propane dealers in 38 States, 4 Canadian Provinces and by dealers in Australia, Israel, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil and Siriname. SkyTracker's™ global coverage reaches 95% of the World's population and SkyTracker's™ are deployed today on four continents, North America, South America, Asia and Australia.

Q: What generation is your current system?

SkyTracker™ II with firmware version 18 installed.

Q: What type of fuel level sensors can be used with your system? Which do you prefer?

NASCorp's SkyTracker™ can read any voltage output, such as a Rochester R-3D Hall Effect Sensor, which uses Remote-Ready Dials, but SkyTracker™ can adapt to any voltage range. SkyTracker™ can read PERC supported Adept Sciences & Technologies, LLC's sonar system, Rotarex dials, Tarantin Tank products and Squibb-Taylor gauges and any contact closure of any manufacturer. NASCorp's SkyTracker™ can tell you if you left your dome light on, if you are so moved to want to know.

Q: Can your system be used on refined products?

Yes, with use of any of the fuel level gauges as described in Question 4 above or any future sensor that emits voltage, including discharges emitted by electro-magnetic fields.

Q: What is the warranty period and what does it cover?

NASCorp will replace any unit that is determined to be defective within the Three Year (3) Limited Warranty period, based on date of purchase. A defective unit is one which a dealer has notified NASCorp verbally or in writing is not working and it has been determined that the problem is not a bad battery or a damaged cable/sensor. To aid in a warranty decision, NASCorp may require that one of Dealer's employees or agents replace the battery or the Hall Sensor Cable from the Remote-Ready Dial to SkyTracker™ on the tank prior to determining if the unit is defective or not. (NOTE: one Hall Effect R-3D cable, one Junior or Senior Remote-Ready Dial and one battery pack is provided with each SkyTracker™.) Batteries and cables are considered maintenance items after the first year of service.

On warranty returns, a Return Merchandise Authorization ("RMA") will be provided Dealer at any time a warranty claim is made. The Company will pay the shipping, both ways, of any replacement unit(s). The Company shall also provide Dealer with a return shipping label for any defective unit(s). Replacement units will be billed at time of shipment, but a credit invoice will be issued upon return-receipt of defective unit(s) at NASCorp's Operations Department in Cape Girardeau, MO or any other location designated by NASCorp so long as said units are received within 60 days of the initial shipment date of the replacement SkyTracker(s)™. Otherwise, the invoice for those replacement units will be due and payable.

Q: How is the signal transmitted (satellite, phone line, RF, or cellular)?

NASCorp uses 48 GPS LEO satellites clustered in 6 orbital configurations of 8 satellites each. Each orbital fleet monitors one continent.

Q: What are the advantages of your transmission over the other methods?

Self-contained SkyTracker™ transmits tank liquid level readings, customer usage (for consumption billing), on-site accumulated degree days, battery levels and out-of ordinary events (stuck float gauge, no change when expected or notice of excess use) from the customer's tank directly to LEO satellites. Therefore, SkyTracker™ is non-intrusive to a storage container and does not require the dealer to enter into a customer's home or business to install RF or cellular receiver equipment that connects to telephone or power lines in a customer's home. This means that SkyTracker™ transmissions encounter less interference than other systems. In addition, SkyTracker™ transmits in the noise spectrum, therefore SkyTracker's™ signals cannot be detected, much less decoded, other than by the patented Sensor Enabled Notification System (SENS) and NASCorp's IBM X-Series servers where the data is further encrypted. SkyTracker™ security is maximized over competing signals.

Q: What are the disadvantages of the methods you do not use?

1. Data of competing systems are not secure in transmission.
2. Competitor's systems frequently encounter a higher rate of signal interference, including customer intentional or accidental disconnection of receiving devices dealer has to install inside a customer's home or business.
3. Possible unauthorized interception is more likely to occur in RF or cellular Control Channel transmissions from transmitting units on tanks to receiver devices in a customer's home or business.
4. Distance from tank to base receiver, which has to be installed in a customer's home or business, is also problematic as the reception of transmitted data often encounters interference or dropped signals.
5. Poor cellular reception and dropped calls can be another problem on competing systems that use cellular transmitters at the tank to send data to receiving apparatuses install inside a customer's home. Ditto, for systems that report directly to a competitor's server through a cellular Control Channel.
6. The customer has to be notified and appointments made for a dealer's service technician or driver to enter the customer's home or business at the time of most competing system's installation, maintenance or for disconnect i.e.; when a customer moves, changes gas suppliers or in the case of non-payment.
7. External power and phone lines must be available for land-line phone-based systems, including cellular transmitters from tank to customer's residence.
8. It is intrusive to the customer to have to tap into their telephone line and power supply.
9. Telephony based systems only work on analog phone lines. If the customer has digital telephone service, their service must be converted to analog, which is costly, time-consuming and a degradation to transmission quality.
10. Installation cost of competing systems is much higher and requires many times the labor than SkyTracker™. SkyTracker™: is plug and play, requiring less than one minute at a customer's location to install SkyTracker™ on most new remote-ready ASME tanks and under five minutes on older (pre-2000) ASME containers. In the latter, the only tool required is a screwdriver to replace visible dials with a remote-ready dial, which is supplied with each SkyTracker™.
11. Security of data. NASCorp owns its IBM X-Series server cluster and does not share or lease space to others. NASCorp's six servers have huge capacities, are redundant and are under 24/7/365 armed guard. NASCorp is also warranted by IBM for 99.999% up-time. We are working on +100%.
12. Technical service is not by voice messaging or email. NASCorp provides live tech support 12 hours each business day from two locations in the US.

Q: Do trees, buildings, or mountains obstruct communication?

Negative. SkyTracker™, transmitting directly from the tank, requires only a 15 degree view of any sky, North, South, East or West. SkyTracker™ also transmits through (or from under) an environmental esthetic "Rainbird" in-ground sprinkler control enclosure (NDS, meter or valve box). SkyTracker™ also transmits from inside any wood building or from inside most metal roof buildings, so long as there are windows within 20 feet of SkyTracker™ so that a sky view is available.

Q: What is the power supply for the tank transmitter (battery, solar, other?)?

SkyTracker's™ primary power supply is lithium battery pack with fuse to protect interior components in a power surge, such as an indirect lightning strike. However, SkyTracker™ also accepts any 12 volt source, including power from solar panel systems on the market today. When 12 volt or any solar panel system is used, a 4-cell lithium battery back-up is standard on NASCorp's SkyTracker™.

Q: Why did you select this (THESE) type(s) of power supply?

1. Economy in production
2. Economy in installation
3. Economy in maintenance
4. Versatility for the installing dealer.

Q: If battery - What are the major features? What is the life? What is the replacement cost? What expertise and time is needed to replace the battery?

a. What are the major features?

1. Adequate power.
2. Low cost

b. What is the life?

SkyTracker's™: battery packs are warranted for 200 transmissions, which is equal to approximately 1 to 2 years under residential loads. Tree Hundred transmissions from SkyTracker's™: battery packs have been recorded by dealers in warmer climates.

c. What is the replacement cost?

Contact our sales staff for a quote.

d. What expertise and time is needed to replace the battery?

A Philips head screwdriver is required to back-out four ½ inch screws. SkyTracker's™ battery pack is a plug-in, so replacement is under one minute. Replacement battery pack comes with replacement battery door gasket to assure weather re-seal.

Q: If solar - a. What are the major features?

a. What are the major features

ANSWER:

1. SkyTracker™ is configured to utilize 12 volt, so its power source does not necessarily have to be from a solar panel, but usually is.
2. Easy installation. SkyTracker's™ Hall Sensor Cable for 12 volt comes complete with pigtail for installation to any 12 volt source.

b. What is the life?

ANSWER: Indefinite.

c. What expertise and time is needed to replace?

ANSWER: Solar components are plug-in. 12-volt battery replacement would be as expected.

d. Does the solar power supply unit need service? Describe.

ANSWER: No maintenance is required other than 12 volt battery replacement if solar energy is directed to a battery instead of directly to SkyTracker™.

e. What is the effect of snow cover and cloud cover?

ANSWER: None, if a recommended optional standard automotive type storage battery is used. This eliminates interference from deep snow cover, night or heavy cloud cover.

f. Do you have battery backup? If yes, please answer the questions above on battery.

ANSWER: Yes, through two options. First, is SkyTracker's™ standard equipment 4-cell lithium battery pack. Second, is with any automotive type battery.

Q: What technical expertise and time is needed for each installation?

No special training or expertise is required for installation of NASCorp's SkyTracker™. All that is required in installation is four easy steps:

1. Peel the tape off of the SkyTracker™ base-plate.
2. Stick SkyTracker™ on the tank.
3. Plug the Rochester R-3D Hall Sensor in the Remote-Ready Dial.
4. Plug the other end of the SkyTracker™ cable into SkyTracker™ itself, which turns the unit on so SkyTracker™ can begin transmitting immediately (Peel, Stick, Plug & Plug).

Non-intrusive self-contained SkyTracker™ installs in under one minute on newer ASME containers with remote-ready dials and in less than five minutes on any older ASME tank without a remote-ready dial. A Junior or Senior remote-ready replacement dial is provided with each SkyTracker™, dealer's choice.

Of course, some basic customer information must first be set-up in the SkyTracker™ data-base, which requires a couple of minutes in SkyTracker's™ user friendly, confidential website.

Q: Can your system be used on underground tanks?

Yes. SkyTracker™ can transmit from underground when SkyTracker™ is installed in an in-ground meter or valve box so long as the lid does not contain metal. NDS boxes can be purchased through NASCorp, for one-source shopping convenience, or at Home Depot or Lowes Home Improvement stores.

Q: What is the effect of severe weather conditions (extreme cold and heat, hail, strong wind, ice storm) on your system?

NASCorp's stockholders include 24 independent propane marketers and NASCorp's staff has over 100 years experience in hands-on propane delivery and management, so SkyTracker™ was designed by propane marketers for use by propane marketers. SkyTracker™ is robust in the field, being made of ballistic, fire retardant, UV rated plastic. Temperature, hail, wind, ice and snow does not affect SkyTracker™. SkyTracker's™ SkyBrain™ processor can operate to -31 degrees below zero. Also, SkyTracker™ has been tested to transmit through several inches of solid ice, from under several feet of water and attaches to the steel surface of a tank using weather-tight adhesive tape that sets up in 24-hours and is specific to SkyTracker™ and supplied with each SkyTracker™. In field application, SkyTrackers™ are deployed today from the Amazon River at the equator to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Labrador, Canada to Israel to the outback of Australia. The World's propane dealers have found that SkyTracker™ can operate anywhere, anytime.

Q: How does your system protect against theft?

SkyTracker's™ base plate is attached to the tank by specified commercial grade adhesive tape that is specifically provided with each SkyTracker™. The tape cannot be purchased in retail stores. A casual passerby will not be able to remove the unit. SkyTracker™ itself locks onto the base plate and the clip to remove SkyTracker™ is hidden. The Hall Sensor Cable also locks onto SkyTracker™ in a unique manner, but the removal of same is through a simple hidden release. NASCorp has had no reports of theft or vandalism to date.

Q: What is the signal strength and distance?

Signal strength is 18-24 decibels. Distances are unlimited; 12,500 miles to LEO satellites, then returned to SENS ground stations around the World where it is recovered, processed and encrypted by NASCorp's X-Series IBM server cluster for dealers to recover their tank and home information from anywhere in the World.

Q: Are there secondary uses for the unit receiver?

SkyTracker™: does not require a receiver, but self-contained SkyTracker™ is configured for direct to satellite secondary revenue-producing services that the dealer can offer to end-user customers. First, the dealer can resell or grant permission for their customer to look inside their tank at their home or business and view current liquid level, alerts, fuel use, history graph, battery condition and other data; just as the propane dealer can see all or their customer's tanks on the dealer's part of the SkyTracker™ subscriber network. Customer end-user MSRP for website access is $14.99 to $19.99, depending upon market.

Also, the dealer can offer their customer(s) NASCorp's SkyHelp Services™ option; where the dealer can resell to their customer CO or C3H8 sensors and an Indoor Low Temperature sensor and provide monthly monitoring of those sensors.

Q: Is your unit UL approved?

As SkyTracker™ is self-contained at the tank, instead of being in the customer's home or business, SkyTracker™ is ETL approved. Control Number 3105440 has been issued for SkyTracker™, which is tested in accordance with the standard for Nonincendive Electrical Equipment for Use in Class I and II, Division 2 and Class III, Divisions 1 and 2 Hazardous (Classified) locations (ANSI/ISA-12.12.01-2000), Nonincendive Electrical Equipment for Use in Class I, Division 2 Hazardous Locations (CSA-C22.2 No. 213-M1987), & UL 61010-1 and (CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 61010-1, Second Edition) as specifically tested and approved for Use in an environment of propane and other NGLs. SkyTracker™ conforms to UL Std. 61010-1, ANSI/ISA Std. 12.12.01 Certified to CSA Std. C22.2 No. 61010-1 & CSA Std. C22.2 No. 213. SkyTracker™ also complies and is certified under Part 15 of the FCC Rules.

Q: What diagnostics are built into your system?

First, SkyTracker™ has a brain. NASCorp's SkyBrain™ processor allows the dealer to resell options of SkyTracker's™ SkyHelp Services™ (CO & Propane Leak sensor notification and indoor low-temperature sensing) and SkyHome Monitoring™ smart home devices.

Second, SkyBrain™ allows SkyTracker's™ on-board patent-pending on-site Degree Day Recorder to record and accumulate Degree Days, calculate K-Factors and compare each customer's usage with current weather conditions and a customer's history of fuel consumption. SkyBrain™ product forms the basis of SkyTracker's™ out-of ordinary event notifications.

Third, SkyTracker™ has a battery condition calculator to give notice to the dealer when it is time to change the battery pack.

Last, an internal clock is on-board each SkyTracker™ that automatically sets itself to Greenwich Time. This permits each SkyTracker™ to self-adjust for any of the World's time zones SkyTracker™ transmits from, so SkyTracker™ can perform to the reporting program selected by the dealer i.e.; residential, bulk/transport and etc.

Q: Is there a field diagnostic tool available for the system

Field diagnosis is not required. A couple of simple tests determine if a battery failure has occurred or the Hall Sensor cable has been compromised. The dealer should carry a couple of these inexpensive standard maintenance items in inventory.

Q: What are the primary causes of system malfunction?

Currently each SkyTracker™ undergoes 100% diagnostic and transmission testing before being sent to the field. In August of 2006, about 200 SkyTrackers™ were assembled with data boards wherein the manufacturer of our data boards missed the etching of an important trace. This resulted in a malfunctioning power system that would cause some SkyTrackers™ to drain their battery packs after 40-50 transmissions. Upon discovery, NASCorp immediately halted assembly and shipments of SkyTrackers™ with the errant board and until the condition was corrected by the board's manufacturer, which took about three weeks. This was resolved quickly by NASCorp's internal Operations Technician and the vendor. All units were recalled. Replacement unit shipment was at no cost to the few dealers who had errantly gotten those units; keeping with NASCorp's policy of personal accountability and that a dealer can talk to NASCorp's propane-trained personnel for personalized communication, prompt service and a quick resolve of any issue.

Today all replacement SkyTrackers™ are operating and thousands of additional units have been sold. Out of these, only one unit suffered erratic reporting and it was immediately replaced.

Otherwise, about two dozen battery failures have occurred to date, which NASCorp has identified the cause of the failure and has already resolved this problem too, by additional testing of the battery packs that go into SkyTracker™:.

What is the rate of occurrence?

ANSWER: Prior versions, 1.1%. Today's version, under 0.5%.

Q: Is scheduled periodic maintenance required?

Replace battery packs every 18-24 months.

What skills are needed to perform the maintenance?

ANSWER: If you can you operate a Phillips head screwdriver, you're OK. It is only needed for battery replacement.

Q: How often can data be captured from the tank transmitter?

Every hour if a change is received, otherwise every day or third day, depending upon dealer selected reporting program, but particularly anytime there is a 10% liquid level drop, when a tank is filled, including unauthorized fills, when customized conditions are met and levels have been reached, or with an out-of-ordinary event.

What is the cost of each transmission?

ANSWER: The standard residential cost is $4.00 per month and the standard bulk/transport plant storage transmission cost is $14.99 per month. Excess transmissions are 15 cents each.

Q: What base display options do you offer?

SkyTracker's™: patent-pending color-coded one-glance tank levels page identified by route, liquid level, battery charge, degree-day or by alert notice, dealer's choices. SkyTracker's™ robust website also tracks a customer's fuel use and history, transmission reports and provides employee log-in records. API displays and Windows based cellular options are also available.

Q: What types of alarm are supported?

Time for delivery, critical low-level, out-of ordinary event, no change when expected, tank overfilled, 10% level drop(s), and SkyHelp Service's™ CO, Propane Leak or indoor low-temperature notices if elected by the dealer and dealer's customer.

Q: How is the alarm reported?

Up to 100 people can be notified for each SkyTracker™ subscribed to by a propane dealer. Alert notices are sent through website alerts, text messages to cell phones and/or email.

Q: Who owns the host data receiving computer?

North American Satellite Corporation ("NASCorp") owns its own IBM X-Series server cluster, which is located in a 24/7/365 armed and guarded co-location center in St. Louis, MO. The optical cluster consists of active and passive servers, web server, email server, API server and back-up server, so IBM warrants NASCorp's servers to have an up-time of 99.999% with down-time to never exceed 2 hours. NASCorp's servers are additionally backed by multiple Internet pipes, two power grids and added battery and propane generator power systems. NASCorp developmental servers, located in a special temperature-controlled server room in NASCorp's IT Center in Cape Girardeau, MO, backs the IBM system to provide complete service coverage. NASCorp does not lease or rent its servers out to third parties. They are 100% dedicated to SkyTracker™ and can process data for up to 100,000,000 SkyTrackers™.

Q: Is special hardware or software needed?

No. SkyTracker™ is a web-based application with access given to dealers through a user name and password. There is no additional equipment or cost for the web access provided the dealer already has Internet access.

Q: If yes, what is the cost?

ANSWER: (NOT APPLICABLE)

Who controls the data?

ANSWER: North American Satellite Corporation (NASCorp).

How is data confidentiality addressed?

ANSWER: First, by NASCorp's contract with its dealers. Proprietary data handling is paramount and assured. Second, NASCorp further supports its written commitment to confidentiality through the very processes that transport data. All transmissions are sent through the noise spectrum, so they cannot be intercepted, much less decoded, by anything other than the patented Sensor Enabled Notification System (SENS). SENS is also used by the United States Department of Defense, so superior data security is always mandated. From there, NASCorp's patent-pending web application servers and software further encrypt a dealer's data. As additional security, NASCorp employs three separate IT groups in three separate locations to stagger data coding and decoding. Finally, NASCorp has retained independent information technology auditors to monitor each of these groups and our server co-location center.

What are the data management fees?

ANSWER: No additional fees are charged to the dealer. SkyTracker™ data handling is included in the monthly monitoring fee as described in Questions 25, 42 and43.

Q: What percentage of installations fail within six months of installation?

To date, 0.5%

After one year?

ANSWER: Less than 1.0%

After five years?

ANSWER: SkyTracker™ II has not been available to the public for five years, but NASCorp has operating SkyTracker™ I units in the field with expedited transmission programming. These use the same modem and SkyBrain™ processor as used in SkyTracker™ II. SkyTracker™ I has over two years of field service and 6 years of satellite transmission records. Two SkyTracker™ I units had a loose antenna wire, which was re-attached in the field in a couple of minutes. In SkyTracker™ II we have done away with that wire. As a result of information that has been accumulated, SkyTracker™ II will operate with less than a 2.0% failure rate for the five-year term.

Q: What is the expected life of a unit?

Indefinite, but technology can change so we state approximately 7 to 10 years.

Q: What percentage of your sites are installed successfully?

100%

What features about your product and service most create this success?

ANSWER: SkyTracker's™ simplicity of installation, ease of information recovery and the various options to recover that information, clarity of the information through color-coded displays, robustness in field application, unparalleled security of data and, most important, the ability for a dealer to reach NASCorp's field and corporate personnel employed from the propane industry itself or personnel we have intensively trained in hands-on propane applications for live one-on-one tech support. Of course, SkyTracker™ is cost justified because it works!

Q: Does the system have a mechanism for extending the range from tank to base unit?

Distances from the tank to the building is never a factor when a dealer elects SkyTracker™. SkyTracker™ does not require any device inside a customer's home or business, so SkyTracker's™ base unit is the LEO satellites themselves. As a benefit of NASCorp's SkyTracker™, the dealer can be anywhere on this planet and retrieve his or her customer's tank and smart home data via Windows based smart cell phones, their own accounting or routing service(s), should the dealer elect NASCorp's API service and has approved his or hers accounting service to retrieve information from NASCorp's API, or the SkyTracker™ multi-lingual Website, which is located at www.nascorp-skytracker.com/ncint (go to the Dealer Demo link).

Q: Does the company have full regulatory approvals on their devices?

Yes. SkyTracker™ holds a 913 Explosion Proof Rating from ETL and is compliant with Part 15 of FCC Rules. (Also, see Question 22 above).

Q: What installation support equipment exists to assist installers?

A screwdriver, a one-page four-step installation instruction sheet that is included with each order of SkyTrackers™ and a web-based operating manual, which can be downloaded. NASCorp offers live tech support 12-hours each business day at NASCorp's Nashville, TN and Cape Girardeau, MO offices, personal access to senior management (personal cell phone numbers are provided) and through field based Account Executives.

Q: Is your system adaptable and integrated with other technologies

Yes. In addition to NASCorp's dealer recovery website that is accessible from anywhere in the World on any desktop or laptop, NASCorp has developed an Applied Programming Interface ("API") for a dealer to authorize his or her accounting software provider or routing software system administrator----outsourced or internal to the dealer's operation---- to import SkyTracker™ information to accounting systems for accounts receivable management, billing, including consumption billing, or truck routing, even though SkyTracker™ has truck routing software that comes standard in the SkyTracker™ Website application. Many industry accounting software providers to propane dealers are in discussions with NASCorp for development of extensions of their own software to import SkyTracker™ data so that they can better serve their dealers who desire to see SkyTracker™ tank and home data on existing accounting programs such as Account Receivables or routing.

Also, NASCorp has an interface whereby dealers can recover SkyTracker™ tank monitoring and basic customer information from any Windows based cellular phone in the US or Canada.

Q: For systems with primary batteries, how do you know the time that transmitters will last in the field?

SkyTracker™ battery packs are tested and warranted for 200 transmissions, which is about 18 to 24 months service for the standard residential SkyTracker™. Available battery charge/power is displayed on the dealer recovery website, API, or on windows based smart phones. Low power alerts are also sent to the dealer, or any and all of dealer's designates, by text message and/or email notification(s).

Q: Is the customer required to use the company's data services?

Yes, but the dealer can use the API service or cellular data recovery option as described above.

Q: What data analysis capabilities do you provide?

NASCorp provides a full spectrum of data analysis which include but are not limited to consumption charts, fuel consumption data tables, downloads in MS EXCEL format or obtained via NASCorp's API, customer and company log in records, total storage available for all tanks which have SkyTracker™ installed, total of current inventory, cumulative on-site Degree Days, and total quantity of fuel consumed by end users from the beginning of each fiscal year. SkyTracker's™ routing is easy; sorted by liquid level, route, customer type, status, etc. Visual graphs are also available.

Which are most relevant to the propane marketer?

ANSWER: All of the above but, SkyTracker's™ most important feature is that SkyTracker™ works! A dealer can obtain the correct tank level percentage at any time and the flexibility of the website allows the dealer to maximize delivery efficiency by eliminating wasted trips and run-outs and reduce investment in storage and trucks. These items all contribute to a dealer's bottom line and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty due to SkyTracker's safety benefits and information services.

Q: Do you assess periodic service, monitoring, data transmission, etc. fees?

Yes. Monitoring fees are assessed monthly.

Q: What separates your system from your competitors?

Just about everything, but mostly the fact that SkyTracker™ works, works simply and works anywhere. Furthermore, SkyTracker™ is self-contained, installs in minutes and requires no external power, telephone line or service personnel. The dealer never has to enter a customer's home or business, which means that appointments are not necessary for installation or maintenance.

Q: Anything else you want to say about your system that was not asked?

NASCorp offers dealers the opportunity to take SkyTracker™ out for a test drive. In 30 days either write NASCorp a check or return SkyTracker™ for a 100% refund. Over 100 dealers have taken NASCorp up on this demonstration opportunity and all have placed additional orders from 10 units to 1,300 SkyTrackers™, including several presidents to the National Propane Gas Association and state association leaders and presidents.

Q: Describe your customer service support?

Live customer service personnel are available by telephone, email or facsimile from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM CT Monday - Friday. Field based Account Executives and a number of other employees are also available by cell phone during business hours and at off times. The Website is open 24/7/365 and provides additional information, instructions and tech support. NASCorp Account Executives and Mr. Humphrey typically meet propane dealers at their offices during initial set-up and to provide additional support and training. It is NASCorp's policy to provide dealers with access to propane-trained personnel, including senior management, for prompt service, dependable resolutions and customer satisfaction.

Q: Do you have your own design and technical support staff?

Yes, for hardware and electrical engineering, firmware design and software configuration.

Q: Do you have an established track record with telephony?

No. SkyTracker™ has eliminated the need for telephony since it communicates directly to GPS/LEO satellites.

Q: Do you have an R & D budget?

Yes. This is proprietary, but I believe NASCorp's pioneering advancements in technology speaks volumes by itself. For 2006, NASCorp developed and deployed the first industry multi-lingual dealer information recovery website, an API for a dealer's accounting software provider to incorporate SkyTracker's™ information into a dealer's accounting and/or delivery software and a Windows based interface for a dealer to recover his/her customer tank information via certain types of cellular phones. NASCorp has other applications in current development including a GPS SkyTracker™ for bobtail delivery trucks (due out by the Spring of 2007), which will also transmit a truck's on-board inventory and each delivery stop's meter stamp and gallons delivered. Dealers will be able to invoice their customers before their driver leaves the customer's premises.

What percent of your total revenues is it?

ANSWER: Proprietary, but Research and Development investments are a large part of NASCorp's capital and operating budgets. NASCorp will launch planned new products for 2007 and 2008.

NASCorp is a debt free corporation capitalized with over $6 million and has additional capital structured to support over $1 million for future products and ancillary options that will become available through SkyTracker™ .

Do you have R&D research partnerships?

ANSWER: Yes. Several.

If yes, with whom?

ANSWER: NASCorp considers this information proprietary, but an example of one of NASCorp's affiliates would be Mark Ingles. Mark is the engineer for XM-Radio's and GM On-Star's satellite antennas. Mark engineered SkyTracker's™ patch antenna. The same manufacture for XM and GM antennas produces SkyTracker's™ satellite antenna. Rest assured that the same care, research and back-ground checks have gone into each component and process of SkyTracker™ and NASCorp's affiliated vendors, attorneys and research organizations. All are credible, sound enterprises that have competent management, are reliable and stand behind their products. NASCorp's focus is not just on quantity, but also for quality in workmanship and craftsmanship of each SkyTracker™ .

Q: Do you have future product generations being developedthat either:

1) enhances functionality,

ANSWER: Yes.

2) reduces system cost or maintenance?

ANSWER: Yes.

3) improves performance?

ANSWER: Yes.

If yes, please describe.

ANSWER: NASCorp fully expects to be the market leader in this industry by not just being on the cutting edge of available technology, but being the edge that cuts. Our technology is World Class and is available to do just about anything, so if there is a demand for some particular service NASCorp will provide it in the best manner possible. This means being able to transfer many different types of information via the satellite technology we already use and from different types of devices (gauges, sensors, alarms, switches, etc.). NASCorp fully intends to change the use of remote-tank monitoring technology by the propane industry.

Q: How many of your systems are currently installed on?

1) storage tanks?

ANSWER: Over 200 Bulk Plants.

2) at retail customer locations?

ANSWER: Several thousand and growing daily, including installations for NASA and NORAD and at Home Depot, Hampton Inns, AmericInns, Ruby Tuesdays, Dunkin Donuts, Boater's World and various other government agency installations and DOT maintenance locations across the country, homes of the famous and near famous and in countless agricultural applications.

Q: What is your company's belief about the role this technology will play in the evolution of the propane industry?

NASCorp believes that its SkyTracker™ will forever change the way a propane marketer conducts business. NASCorp can help increase efficiencies, eliminate run-outs and wasted trips completely, reduce capital investment in tanks and trucks and improve overall customer satisfaction.

SkyTracker™ has the potential to increase the value of the propane industry significantly. More to the point, SkyTracker™ will improve each propane dealer's Operating Cash Flow by eliminating unnecessary stops to customer locations each year. This also increase a marketer's business resale value.

For instance, an average marketer with 2,500 customers can increase annual Operating Cash Flow (EBITDA) by converting 80% of their customer base to SkyTracker™. The elimination of unnecessary stops pays for SkyTracker™, using a very conservative $55.00 per stop as compared to most dealer quotes of $65.00 to $80.00 per stop. A dealer selling the SkyHelp Services™ of CO & Propane Leak Detection & Inside Low Temperature sensing to 20% of end-users, would generate revenue that would flow to the dealer's bottom line. Together, savings in Operating Expenses and Monitoring service revenues would increase a dealer's EBITDA by $151,000.00. The increased business resale value would be $755,000.00, using an equally conservative multiple of 5 times EBITDA. This does not take into account the environmental and human health impact SkyTracker™ provides to keep the 60 million people who use propane to heat their homes, dry their clothes, wash their dishes and to bath with, safe.

Q: Is the company's technology protected?

Yes, through multiple US and international patent applications, copyrights, trade mark/name filings, written policies for internal operations i.e.; superior firewalls, data encryption, world-wide rights contracts with vendors and third party independent auditing for added confidentiality and protection.

Q: Anything else you want to say about your company?

NASCorp is an active member of NPGA and many affiliated state associations. NASCorp supports and sponsors dealer education forums at state, regional or national conventions and board meetings. In 2007, NASCorp will be an 8th year exhibitor at the NPGA International Exposition and the Midwest Expo.

Q: What does the Industry demand?

To meet the demand for low-cost satellite and wireless ground remote tank and home monitoring for the Natural Gas Liquids and other related industries, North American Satellite Corporation (NASCorp) has increased its patent pending (U.S. and International) SkyTracker™ processor (SkyBrain™) from four (4) tracking/reporting functions to simultaneously perform 1,000 analog or 4,096 digital tasks. In addition, SkyTracker™ now boasts Sensor Enabled Notification System (SENS) patented technology. SENS allows satellite sensing or tracking of data and/or assets, which are registered in NASCorp's SkyTracker™ system. Each NASCorp SENS SkyTracker™ transmits to 8 orbital satellites to provide multiple redundancies in information collection and data transfer at each customer location. Every 30 days 2,880 satellite passes are made over each SkyTracker™, for a total of 43,200 minutes of monitoring. NASCorp's SENS SkyTracker™ will reach customers in 120 countries worldwide through GlobalStar's fleet of 48 satellites. SkyTracker's™ flat array antenna utilizes the same technology as XM Radio and GM's On-Star satellite antennas and is produced by the same manufacturer as the XM and On-Star component. Quality and dependability is our guarantee to our Dealers.

Q: What is the SkyBrain™ Processor?

SkyBrain™ Processor: As in "The Wizard of Oz", NASCorp' has a scarecrow. But, unlike the scarecrow in "Oz", ours has a brain. So does our SkyTracker™ wireless liquid level tank and home monitors. We call it SkyBrain™, a patented process of SkyTracker™. The unique intelligence of SkyTracker™ offers a complete home profile management system, including company managed services and orbital satellite tank monitoring, through SkyTracker's™ use of Sensor Enabled Notification System (SENS) technology. NASCorp's SkyTracker™ combines satellite communications, allowing monitoring and tracking of data at any remote location via satellite, with a processor (brain). SkyTracker's™ processor is a patent pending process called SkyBrain™. Because of SkyBrain™, each SkyTracker™ includes an internal Degree Day Recorder to allow SkyTracker™ to accumulate and record weather patterns at each customer location of a propane dealer where any SkyTracker™ is installed. SkyTracker™ records "real-time" data, including tank levels and other SkyHome Monitoring™ and SkyHelp Services™. SkyTracker™ can then forecast projected Degree Day patterns for the most reliable delivery, tank, and home monitoring system ever.

Q: How does Skytracker™ work with Degree Days?

SkyTracker™ Internal Degree Day Recorder Features:

• K-Factor Calculation(s).
• Out-Of-Ordinary Event Notice(s).
• Stuck Tank Gauge.
• Customer Away From Home (Lower usage than normal).
• Leak Detection.
• Vapor Use Calculation(s) (When Liquid Outage is Reached).

From "real-time" information, gathered at each SkyTracker™ site, SkyTracker™ will automatically calculate any customer's K-Factor. SkyTracker's™ SkyBrain™ will then perform a Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA) on each tank investment of a propane dealer where asset investment data and product sales margins are input into the SkyTracker™ system. This is another patent pending service of NASCorp's SkyTracker™ that costs the propane dealer nothing. SkyTracker's™ Degree Day System also forms the basis for SkyTracker's™ Out-of-Ordinary Event notice(s) i.e., stuck tank float gauge, open bleed valve, underground line leak, or any reduction in fuel level(s) not compatible with a customer's history and current weather patterns.

Q: What type of hardware has NASCorp selected for data processing?

Supported by IBM: Upon evaluation of the world's computer hardware manufacturers, International Business Machines (IBM) was selected to support NASCorp's SkyTracker™ and the world's propane dealers who subscribe to SkyTracker™. IBM was chosen because IBM is still the standard to which all other systems are measured and configured to be compatible with. Data is redundantly posted to NASCorp's solely owned and operated clustered IBM servers, located in secure locations which are capable of surviving a natural calamity or terrorist attack. NASCorp's co-location provider, Level (3) Communication, an IBM affiliate, warrants a 99.999% system up-time. Both active and passive mirror servers operate 24/7/365 along with three fully functional back-up servers to take the load in the event of full system failure. Duplicate on-site storage servers are also part of the equation, along with redundant off-site back-ups. Active and Passive back-ups are performed every 30 seconds. Over 16,000 dealers can access their customer's information simultaneously; and not slow NASCorp's servers by more than a millisecond.

Q: Is my data secure?

Data Security: A Dealer sending data over NASCorp's SkyTracker™ secured network, to be recovered only through SENS satellite decoders, SkyTracker's™ reliable transmissions of "real-time" data cannot be detected, much less intercepted, by any other system other than the already patented SENS system. Furthermore, each SkyTracker™ also uses a unique ID that cannot be modified. In short, SkyTracker™ can gather information from locations far beyond current terrestrial or telepathic networks and Dealers can recover their customer's information on NASCorp's Secured Socket-Layered 64-128 bit encrypted Web-based SkyTracker™ Internet access site from any PC anywhere in the world. All posted customer information is color-coded for "At-A-Glance" status acknowledgement(s). A Dealer's peace of mind is NASCorp's ultimate goal.

Q: How does SkyTracker™ work?

How SkyTracker™ Works:While SkyTracker™ has been developed exclusively and expressly for remote-based propane customer storage tanks, it works anywhere where 15° of sky is available. Direction not a factor; so SkyTracker™ does not need to face South, just the sky. Upon installation of SkyTracker™ hardware at your customer's location and entry of your customer's data in SkyTracker's™ passcode-protected encrypted web-based software system, you will have access to your customer's tank fuel inventory level(s) from practically anywhere. This service is provided by NASCorp FREE to the Dealer and/or the Dealer's End-user(s) who subscribe to basic and advanced services of SkyTracker™ (Excludes Wi-Fi or other Internet access fees or rental(s) of PC equipment).

NASCorp's SkyBrain™ (processor) accumulates data to be transmitted from the customer propane storage tank(s), close contact sensors i.e., CO detector(s), propane detector(s), appliances, smoke detector(s), security sensors and etc. and the on-board processor's Degree Day Recorder and history log. Data is then relayed to SkyTracker's™ internal Simplex Transmitting Unit ("STU"). From the STU, data is sent through the noise spectrum at the speed of light to Low Earth Orbital (LEO) satellites via SkyTracker's™ flat array antenna. From the LEO satellites data is forwarded to ground stations around the globe, ultimately reaching SkyTracker's™ patented SENS decoders. SkyTracker™ tank and home data cannot be intercepted, much less decoded, without the benefit of SkyTracker's™ patented SENS decoders. From SENS portals Dealer/Customer data is pulled by NASCorp's IT staff and processed into usable, but encrypted, information which Dealers and their subscribing customers (End-users) may retrieve from NASCorp's passcode-protected Website. Dealers and their subscribing customers can access their data from any computer terminal anywhere in the world just by entering their own personal user name(s) and passcode(s) (passcodes are not filed by or remembered by any NASCorp staff member or vendor affiliates. NASCorp cannot recover any Dealer's or their subscriber's (End-user) passcodes, but a Dealer or End-user who has forgotten their passcode can instruct NASCorp's processor to assign a new passcode if all security check(s) are proven). To see for yourself how SkyTracker™ works, click here to be referred to SkyTracker's

Q: What are the functions of SkyTracker's™ SkyBrain™ ?

Functions of SkyTracker's™ SkyBrain™: "Because I have SkyBrain™, I use logic to make management of your business easier. I can help you manage your customer fuel deliveries and safety services from any Internet access point i.e., your home, car, or even from the beach. I can perform other services for you and your customers as well, like optimum routing of your delivery vehicle(s), accounting and asset control services and can recognize wrongful gas(es) presence indoors or detect out-of-ordinary event(s) indoors and out. I'm ideal for start-ups or stand-alones as well as any existing propane distribution operations. And, I come complete with SkyTracker's™ SkyHelp™ and SkyHome Monitoring™ Services, where I can turn lights on and off, set thermostats and perform security functions, all services which a Dealer can resell to customers. Just use your imagination. It's a "No-Brainer", which costs less than the price of a postage stamp per day.

Dealer Demo Site

Q: How SkyTracker™ configured?

Configuration of SkyTracker™: SkyTracker™ comes complete with SkyBrain™ processor, Simplex (LEO) Satellite Transmitting Unit, RF transceiver for customer appliance wireless communication to SkyTracker™, GM's On-StarR/XM-Radio® - type communication antenna, internal Degree Day & Julian Day recorders, battery pack, tank monitoring bracket, U.L. 913 enclosure, pre-sealing harness with hall sensor and passcode-protected access to encrypted dealer information recovery website.

The SkyTracker™ software will post color-coded tank information to a PC screen by route(s), to SkyChart™, which shows period use through tank polling and even tells when your tank is filled, including unauthorized fill(s), and to SkyMap™, which gives you a color-coded "satellite" view of all your customer storage tank inventory levels that are on the SkyTracker™ system. With just a glance at our SkyMap™, you can determine the condition of your entire customer base, minimize to a route, or even zoom in to a specific customer or delivery truck. This is ideal for a new driver, but was developed for use by management to determine at-a-glance the condition of your customer's fuel levels.

NASCorp's patent-pending intelligence processor (SkyBrain™) will also post by color-coded legend to PC screen for quick reference, low-level tank warnings, tank overfill condition alarm and report an out-of-ordinary event, such as stuck tank gauge or excessive drop(s) in tank levels. SkyTracker's™ patent-pending internal Degree Day and Julian Day recording systems are also built into each SkyTracker™ for the most reliable tank monitoring system ever.

NASCorp's patent-pending SkyHelp Services™ includes CO detection, unspent propane (C₃H₈) presence detection, gas shut-off, and indoor low-temperature sensing. These services are available to a Retail Dealer at NO CHARGE for a Dealer to resell to customers.

Q: Is it quick to Install?

Quick Installation: Installation of NASCorp's SENS SkyTracker™ is one minute on newly fabricated ASME "remote-ready" propane storage containers and five minutes for most older ASME tanks. In tests, SkyTracker™ has transmitted its data successfully while encased in six inches of ice or even from within a building. Where special circumstances require, NASCorp can remotely "ping" field-installed SkyTrackers™ to temporarily increase their power out-put, assuring that no signal is ever missed.

Q: Safety, Convenience, & Security

Safety, Convenience, & Security: NASCorp is the only tank and home monitoring company (See PERC Tank Monitoring Matrix 5/6/05) to offer a resalable basic service. Studies have shown that 10-15% of a Dealer's customer base would be interested in purchasing basic tank monitoring services of a Dealer if access to a web-based observation site is included in the offer i.e., vacation or second home owners (One (1) million new owners in the last three years). NASCorp Dealers can sell their customers access to the SkyTracker™ Website so a customer can view his/her own home or business, including current tank level(s) and other SkyHelp™ or SkyHome Monitoring™ Services. NASCorp's standard SkyTracker™ customer login report includes notices for tank overfill, tank filled, low inventory and tank liquid outage (vapor outage available with optional pressure sensor). The Dealer can offer this service to their customer(s) for $14.99 p/mo. There is no cost to the Dealer. A "Never-Out" guarantee can be included, which NASCorp would co-op with the Dealer. To see for yourself what your customer can see in their own passcode-protected Website, click here for "Customer Demo Site".

The new SkyTracker™ with SENS modem will offer wireless RF solutions for further safety, security and convenience monitoring. For instance:

1. SkyHelp Services: Through NASCorp's SkyHelp Services™, dealers can sell their customers carbon monoxide (CO) sensors and monitoring, propane presence (C₃H₈) detection and monitoring equipment, and indoor low-temperature sensor(s) and monitoring. The former resalable options help a dealer to improve the safety and health of their customers. The latter option protects customer property by preventing frozen pipes in case of electrical or equipment failure at a customer's home in winter. These services are included in SkyTracker's™ base price with no additional cost to the dealer. The Retail Dealer can then resell these services for $4.99 each or, by providing the End-User with the CO, C₃H₈ and RF monitor with indoor low-temperature sensor, offer their customer(s) a package at $24.99 p/mo.

2. Smart Home/Business Products: SkyHome Monitoring™ is another SkyTracker™ exclusive, providing the dealer with resalable customer convenience monitoring sensors and services, including lighting control, sprinkler timing, appliance and thermostat setting, home security, and humidity reporting. The Dealer can resell these services for a profit as well. For home and business, security and life-line monitoring are also available. The Ag industry will be able to use SkyTracker™ for dairy and poultry activities, drier usage, and bin humidity control.

Q: How does SkyTracker™ compare to other monitoring systems?

North American Satellite Corporation Remote Tank Monitoring Comparison

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Q: No Brainer?

No-Brainer: SkyTracker™ is the first monitor to offer limitless dealer revenues through SkyHelp Services™, SkyHome Monitoring™ and SkyTouch™ touch-screen services, all U.S. and International patent pending processes of SkyTracker™. Of course, NASCorp's patented color-coded SkyMap™, customer tank and fuel level locator, SkyChart™, for customer history, and SkyTracker™ Web-supported Dealer information recovery site is a part of any NASCorp SkyTracker™. With SkyTracker™, NASCorp dealers are limited only by their imaginations.

To make the point that SkyTracker™ is different than all other tank monitors offered on the market today, NASCorp purchased the rights to Warner Brother's™ "Wizard of OZ" Scarecrow, who "wished he'd had a brain". Scarecrow has now found a brain. It is called SkyTracker™. You can get a brain, too - - - for less than the price of a postage stamp per day - - - from North American Satellite Corporation. SKYTRACKER™! It's a "NO BRAINER!"

OTHER PRODUCTS

Q: Tell me about SkyTouch™ Screen.

I. A NEW NASCORP PRODUCT - - - SKYTOUCH™ SCREEN! All SkyTracker™ functions can be displayed in a propane dealer's customer's home or business on NASCorp's new SkyTouch™ wall mount touch screen, which comes in five designer face plates that match most decors. The SkyTouch™ screen, which sports the Dealer's logo, offers 24 separate screens to monitor SkyTracker™, SkyHelp Services™, and SkyHome Monitoring™ options. SkyTouch™ screen also offers user-created icons, accepts bitmap files, and can be expanded to store up to 50 pre-recorded messages. SkyTouch™ mounts flush in the wall without a support bracket, for hassle-free installation. SkyTracker's™ SkyTouch™ Screen's MSRP is $699.00.

Q: What is a Two-Way Satellite Platform Internet (Global Village)?

NAS-STAR Global Village Satellite Platform (Two-way Satellite): This hybrid platform allows NASCorp's dealers to leverage unique broadband technologies as assembled by the unquestioned world leader in space and satellite communications, SES Global and SES Global's North American subsidiary, SES AMERICOM. Under NASCorp's contracts and through NASCorp's attack or calamity survivable-bunkered and clustered IBM servers, the NASCorp Global Village Platform can offer your rural customers:

• Advanced media options in satellite television designed to be the next generation in Direct Broadcast Satellite TV with more high-definition (HD) viewing than anyone else in the DBS or cable industries today.
• StarPhone "Go-Anywhere" satellite communications service.
• SkyBox® Home Theater, with over 20,000 viewing options.
• NAS-STAR two-way broadband Internet access.