Manpack details?

[denel]

Great info. so in other words there was no local r&d from scratch.
We have a very long history of creating new rf products and sanctions made it even better. There were at peak 3 companies; most of the manpacks and C&C units are all over south america; this was another reason why Brits never successfully jammed Argentine comms. Grinel my former employer and now Reutech. Our radios were in your mirages as well. Unfortunately cannot put anything more in writing.

http://www.reutechcomms.com/category/communications/

 

[SQ8]

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Well then considering the fact that the vehicular set heats up when used with APU for the 200 Amp Bty, and the 9651 gets too hot to hold during summers and that data tfr is complex and unreliable, I would say that Aselsan f'ed up.

The battery issue was made clear to NRTC and the compatibility problems were known and yet IGNORED.

I did not have any issues with the 9651 during the tests and this was July- must be a serial product issue that NRTC should resolve.
Data TFR was idiotic then, and is probably idiotic now but it could be the heavy encryption. The idea was to to keep our ally from snopping on our conversations and the encryption lengths they went to were daunting.
Basically, sending an image on the base software wasnt too much of a headache but that was with software interface.
Just be glad the Army never purchased the Chinese radio on the line- that was pure trash and frankly dangerous (gave me a nice electric shock).

Great info. so in other words there was no local r&d from scratch.
We have a very long history of creating new rf products and sanctions made it even better. There were at peak 3 companies; most of the manpacks and C&C units are all over south america; this was another reason why Brits never successfully jammed Argentine comms. Grinel my former employer and now Reutech. Our radios were in your mirages as well. Unfortunately cannot put anything more in writing.

http://www.reutechcomms.com/category/communications/

SF comms were tested on the JF, in the end I know that the PAF went with R&S for their comms which I did not find as the superior product to all the offerings that were available.

 

[denel]

The battery issue was made clear to NRTC and the compatibility problems were known and yet IGNORED.

I did not have any issues with the 9651 during the tests and this was July- must be a serial product issue that NRTC should resolve.
Data TFR was idiotic then, and is probably idiotic now but it could be the heavy encryption. The idea was to to keep our ally from snopping on our conversations and the encryption lengths they went to were daunting.
Basically, sending an image on the base software wasnt too much of a headache but that was with software interface.
Just be glad the Army never purchased the Chinese radio on the line- that was pure trash and frankly dangerous (gave me a nice electric shock).


SF comms were tested on the JF, in the end I know that the PAF went with R&S for their comms which I did not find as the superior product to all the offerings that were available.

yes agreed, R&S had their day but many better solutions are out there. Chinese radios are the worst ever i have seen. We had DETs since mid 80s mated to all manpacks right up as part of local TR## units - this both on hf/vhfs.

 

[denel]

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Well then considering the fact that the vehicular set heats up when used with APU for the 200 Amp Bty, and the 9651 gets too hot to hold during summers and that data tfr is complex and unreliable, I would say that Aselsan f'ed up.

Aselsan is not good overall; our radios since the 70s are tested out in Antarctica as well as heat of Kalahari; they are all over south america as well. Tr24xx/TR6xxx series are one of the lightest manpacks around right now and extremely high capabilities; you must know that we were the first country to put hoppers in use across vhf/hf spectrum when no else ever knew how; we were using DETs in 80s when this was an unknown else where including Harris.