MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus Serves Darwin V8 Supercars Event

Hidden Valley Raceway is part of the Hidden Valley Motorsports Complex, located 10 kilometres from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The Hidden Valley Motorsports Complex includes a one kilometre drag racing track (which runs alongside the main straight of the raceway circuit), the 400 metre long Northline Speedway, a mud racing circuit, motorcross tracks, and a go-kart circuit. Hidden Valley Raceway holds an annual round of the International V8 Supercars Championship.

For this year event, Motorola Solutions partner, TR Hirecom has built, installed and managed all radio communications for the Darwin V8 Supercars event. At the centre of the solution is a multi-site MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus system supporting nearly 500 radios across 18 talk groups.

With a multitude of RF noise across the site and limited antenna space, TR Hirecom designed and installed site specific combiners, filters and antennas to reduce ambient RF noise and bit rate error.

Sevaral days prior to the event, TR Hirecom engineers arrived onsite to install the system, conduct RF mapping and perform user acceptance testing. The team remained onsite for the duration of the event to manage the radio distribution, deliver radio usage and facilitate etiquette training.

During the event, TR Hirecom monitored the MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus system and radio network with a constant performance capture and a series on condition monitoring trigger points. If the system loses power, the alarms will not only go off, but the system will switch to battery backup.

After successful completion of the event, TR Hirecom demobilised the site and conducted a debrief with the NT Major Events team.

TR Hirecom has been a critical communications partner for the Darwin V8 Supercars since 2008, deploying Motorola Solutions’ MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus and digital mobile radios.