TROPOSCATTER RADIO SYSTEM – TRS 1

Beneficiary: Romanian Ministry of National Defence

The troposcatter radio system - TRS represents a safe backup solution for fixed communications and IT infrastructure at a strategic level, with the possibility of independent installation and operation, network extension or restoration of affected sections.

The TRS is established as a stationary communications node capable of providing critical, alternative communications services for the existing CIS infrastructure, as well as the extension of TIC services from SCIAR to deployable communications nodes and base/reserve command points.

The TRS solution provided by the Association ADISAM TELECOM S.A. & RARTEL S.A. & STARC4SYS S.R.L. is a solution whose system integration was designed and executed entirely in Romania, within the Association, with the support of the main component suppliers:

  • IRT Technologies, Inc. (Canada)
  • Datum Systems, Inc. (US)
  • ReQuTech, AB (Sweden)

and the participation of STIMPEX S.A. as subcontractor.

STARC4SYS S.R.L. ensured the general management of the project, as well as the integration of the equipment in transit-cases.

Everything starts with plans:

Plans Plans

and continues in the laboratory:

Laboratory
Laboratory

and to the antenna manufacturer:

Antenna manufacturer

Finally, the antennas have arrived and must be tested:

Antenna testing Antenna testing

And not just the antennas. We test the genset up/down solution:

Genset testing

Then the integrated system on a 76 km link:

76 km link test

We increase the distance to 180 km:

180 km link test

Slowly we prepare to board the trailers:

Trailer preparation

The first one is almost ready:

First trailer ready

and we are making the final functional checks:

Final checks

Range tests begin:

Range tests

We also pass through the frozen ford:

Frozen ford

And we go down the steps:

Going down steps

After all this, the first subsystem goes to the beneficiary:

First subsystem delivery

And it arrives late in the evening:

Evening arrival

We start the acceptance tests with the first system (at -25 degrees Celsius):

Acceptance tests at -25C

It's so cold...

Cold weather

especially at night ...

Night time

and a little blizzard ...

Blizzard

The atmosphere has warmed up when the test results are good:

Good test results

We continue the tests with the next subsystem for distances up to 100 km:

100 km tests

We cross the Carpathians in Moldova:

Carpathians

Then Dobrogea:

Dobrogea

And in the mountains of northern Oltenia:

Northern Oltenia mountains

We still get stuck...but we don't give up.

Getting stuck

Links are working and the beneficiary smiles

Successful link

Was it hard? I'd rather say nice.

Final photo

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