Radio Control System

RCS Overview

The purpose of the Radio Control System (RCS) is to provide voice communication using remotely controlled radio equipment. This allows the radio operator and the radio equipment to be placed in different geographical locations. The voice link can be made resistant against jamming, and supports both plain and encrypted speech. The system is fully operational in Norway since end of the -90s.

DESCRIPTION

Geographically, the system is devided into two parts. An operator interface and master remote controllers are located at a control centre, and at the radio site, a slave remote controller links the radio transiver into the system via a backbone network.

The operator interface connects to a master remote controller with the required Have Quick II ECCM and/or Vinson KY-58/KY-100 encryption capacity. The master remote controller connects to the slave remote controller at the radio site through a digital, line switched network. Radio Control System (RCS) 1.

The operator enables and disables the Have Quick and/or Vinson functionality during operation as easily as changing frequency on the radio. The radio management system provides the capability via a master remote controller to connect or disconnect remote radios to maximise capacity.

A time sub-system receives the time from the GPS and can maintain this time correctly for 6-9 months. The time sub-system forwards the time to the Have Quick and the radio management system. Other timing protocols and standards are made available to other internal and external sub-systems i.e. IRIG formats and NMEA formats. The time system supports a number of different GPS receivers such as MPE-II and MPE-S following the GRAM standard.

The Have Quick II ECCM sub-system setup, i.e Word-of-Day, Time-of Day and Frequency Management Training nets, is controlled from the radio management sub-system.

The Vinson encryption sub-system supports both KY-58 or KY-100 encryption units, and loading of crypto variable from KYK-13 or similar directly into the encryption units.

Due to all functionality being located at the contro centre, there is no classified information stored or forwarded at theradio site.

The system can handle up to 300 master controllers within one control centre, and more than 1000 slave remote controllers.