DMR  |  2012-10-30

Hytera DMR Solution Facilitates America's Cup

Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor

The Digital Voice Vocoder reduces background noise, providing clear communications from helicopter or boat crews.

The America's Cup is the oldest trophy in international sports with rich history and tradition. The world's fastest boats and best sailors gather together for this supreme honour. The contest for the 34th America's Cup in 2011 brings two new classes of boats and new format of racing consisting of three main stages - the America's Cup World Series; the Louis Vuitton Cup (the America's Cup Challenger Selection Series) and the America's Cup Finals.

With such fierce competition on the water for the America's Cup, International live television and web broadcasts, clear and reliable communication is critical for the Race Management, International Broadcast, Race Teams and Security.

Customer Demands

During the whole race, radio Communications were required by a variety of user groups including umpires and officials, medical support staff, security personnel, race teams, television production, helicopter, boat and shore camera crews as well as technical & rigging crew, and the race is spread over 18 regattas, in 6 host countries with at least 200 days on water, therefore all radio equipments supplied need to be rugged and robust for communication between events, and all handheld equipments need to be IP67 rated for reliability in salt water environments. Due to limited on-site preparation time for the regatta, all radio equipments need to be operational within 48 hours, requiring reprogramming of all repeaters and subscribed radios and retuning of the antenna to combine system to host countries' specific frequency allocations.

Solutions

The Hytera DMR solution consists of 24 Hytera RD98X Repeaters (44 Logical Digital Channels, 2 Physical Analogue Channels), 280 Hytera PD78XG Handheld Radios and 18 Hytera MD78XG Mobile Radios.

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Benefits for all users will be less downtime with fewer repairs and longer duty cycles due to high efficient Li-Ion battery. High Power 100% Duty Cycle Repeater is the ideal solution for constantly keyed channels used in television production.

The rugged and waterproof handheld radios will provide reliability and durability in the demanding salt water environments.

Source: Hytera