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TETRA at the Olympic Games A
irborne TETRA equipment has been included in tests of Apollo, a special TETRA radiocommunications
network which is being provided by the UK network operator Airwave to the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) to support this year’s big sporting event in the UK. T e airborne equipment will be used during
three cycle races, including the men’s Olympic road cycling race, over a distance of 250 km, on July 28, and the women’s race, covering 140 km, on the following day. Recently it was put through its paces during test events.
‘Unique challenges’ “T e London 2012 road cycling events present some unique challenges for us, especially given the length of the course and attendant issues around logistics and traffi c management”, commented Martin Benké, UK network services director for Airwave. “We were able to deploy a solution by using radio repeater equipment operated from two light aircraft fl ying above, which relayed radio signals from users on the ground to the control centre and vice versa. T e talk traffi c
Hampton Court Palace, built almost 500 years ago – the location for one of the temporary radio base station sites to be used during three important London 2012 road cycling events
was in turn taken back to the Locog technical operations centre in Canary Wharf via VoIP.” During the test events, Airwave deployed
two additional mobile base stations at sites to the south-west of London, providing coverage to various venue control centres. T ese were
connected back into the main Apollo network. A temporary and entirely separate analogue UHF/VHF radio system was also deployed, providing communications between the event control centre and the race convoy as it moved around the course.
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Picture: London 2012
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