Projects & Clients
Weymouth Sailing Academy
Posted on June 19th, 2015
XTC provided 4 repeater and 5 simplex channels for the 4 Sail For Gold Regattas leading up to the 2012 Olympics. The repeaters were based on Portland along side the Military aircraft Radome and gave handheld coverage far in excess of Weymouth Bay.
The system proved vital for race teams and waterside safety for the Regattas and was installed as a back up system to compliment the country-wide Tetra system installed by the Olympics Committee for the actual event. The system was used during the Olympic racing in preference to the Tetra system by some race teams and Judges.
The system has been reinstalled this year for Regatta’s now leading up to the 2016 Olympics where the UK teams will be chosen. XTC are now looking at a permanent installation of a IP based radio system in conjunction with ICOM UK, a sponsor of the Academy.
In 2024 the hilltop repeaters were finally decomissioned afer many years of service. XTC has now installed 4 new ICOM repeaters on the outer sea wall with procom antennas. The radio room back at the Sailing Academy has been fully refurbished with a common Rx antenna and distribution amplifer and separate Tx antennas to aleviate X channel interference. Repeaters