What I mean by last resort is that is not used as a primary or even a
secondary anymore due to the fact of its capabilities.
It will do some voice trunk(s) and a very dismal amount of data. So, In
some cases it may actually be a secondary but I dont see
primary ever unless its all they have for that area of op.
As you say cots and vsat are much more in the limelite of being a
primary to handle the higher needs of larger fobs.
I will say that when your on a much larger FOB that has all DOD assets
including marines :) is where youll see a tropo among a plethora
of other Vsat and comsat gear including some crazy stuff from NSA.
I am sure there are only a few that have been in SCIF to facilitate a
BFITC and the only way to make that happen with a H.323 video format
is to have the bandwidth needed to do it not including all the encrypted
overhead.
Got to love those acronyms LOL
On 09/29/2015 02:47 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
I wouldn't say last resort... You're far more independent of external
things breaking your link if your FOB has, let's say, a 2.4m flyaway
X-band VSAT. The only thing you need is a reliable source of electricity.
Where I have seen tropo used is to establish a secondary or tertiary
link to the nearest larger base.
The US DoD spends an ungodly amount of money on a myriad of types of
COTS and military specific geostationary SATCOM.
On Sep 28, 2015 8:00 PM, "David Milholen" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I know DOD will still use those older tropos for a last resort and
in a theater of ops the will deploy
what assets are need and other times anything available for
deployment.
We had more than 4 ways of coms off of the FOB we were on. Not
including civilian sat.
On 9/28/2015 7:00 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:
yes do......
on other note....haven't hear much discussion of OTH microwave
links anymore. Still used or not?
Jaime Solorza
Wireless Systems Architect
915-861-1390
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Jay Weekley
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Enjoy conversations with your dad while you can.
David wrote:
Well, Given my dad gets to visit once a week at my place
of work is great.
I could not ask for anything better than having a good
conversation with my dad.
On 09/28/2015 02:08 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
Damn, remind me not to take you out on the town if
that is your idea of a good time ;)
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:51 PM, David
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Ok,
Dad and I were having a discussion today about
some historical
microwave communications and my experience with
the old tropos system
the army had. Here is a link to what we were
talking about :)
http://www.radartutorial.eu/08.transmitters/Traveling%20Wave%20Tube.en.html
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