Tour of Britain 7-14th September

Communication Specialists supports the Tour of Britain once again, now our 4th year running for this fantastic event.

We are now getting ready for another Tour of Britain which starts on the 7th Sepetmber and ends on the 14th September.

Once again Comm Spec are supporting The Tour of Britain and providing all the communication equipment and the technology to help the races communicate during this eventful Tour of Britain.

After a fantastic race in 2007 where British riders took three stage wins and three out of the four leaders jerseys on offer, the 2008 Tour of Britain grows another day longer this year, meaning more opportunities than ever to see the best of British and international pro-cycling on the roads of the UK. The 2008 Tour of Britain will visit a total of 15 host venues around the country, nine of which are completely new to the race, so if the race hasnt been past your door step, perhaps this is the year!

For the Tour of Britain this year spectators can watch the race on ITV4 and track the actual race in real time via the service provided by the Tour of Britain partners, Ordnance Survey.

The 2008 race is looking to be the best ever with Olympic medalists taking part and a host of other international teams and star riders.

Tour of Britain race manual - download here

All equipment will be prepared in our workshop (programming, testing, charging batteries) one week before installation. Installation of car/mobile units including motorcycles equipment is tested a week before.

Instructions on how to operate channels was given to all users.

So far all equipment and system works well. Comm-spec Team (Kervin Labrosse, Raymond Brooks and Slawosz Uznanski) is following the race in Tour Of Britain as a technical support for two way radio equipment and all communication system.

Tour of Britain route, are we in your area?
Stage 1: London Circuit | Sunday 7 September Stage 2: Milton Keynes - Newbury | Monday 8 September Stage 3: Chard - Burnham-On-Sea | Tuesday 9 September Stage 4: Worcester - Stoke On Trent | Wednesday 10 September Stage 5: Kingston Upon Hull - Dalby Forest 1 Thursday 11 September Stage 6: Darlington - Newcastle Gateshead | Friday 12 September
Stage 7: Glasgow - Dumfries & Galloway | Saturday 13 September
Stage 8: Blackpool - Liverpool | Saturday 14 September

What is HF SSB?

Do you require Long Range Communications?

HF SSB is the answer

HF means High Frequency whereas SSB means Single Sideband

HF & SSB radios are capable of providing communication over hundreds to thousands of Kilometres.

Buy our high frequency Codan Products at Comm Spec

HF provides communication beyond the range that is possible with conventional VHF/UHF systems, which rely on the line-of sight between communicating parties. HF on the other hand, achieves long distance communication by bouncing its signal off the ionosphere (sky waves) as shown in the Diagram below. Until recently there had always been a dead space of roughly 70 -220 Km between the point where the ground wave terminated and the point where the first sky wave returned to earth.

Standard Base Station Antenna Propagation

This operational shortcoming is unacceptable and a solution has been found by using the NVIS System. Under this system, the antenna radiates a signal near vertically up to bounce down off the ionosphere, thus providing an uninterrupted footprint from ground "0" to a radius of 6,000 Km or more.

NVIS Base Station Antenna Propagation

This operational shortcoming is unacceptable and a solution has been found by using the NVIS System. Under this system, the antenna radiates a signal near vertically up to bounce down off the ionosphere, thus providing an uninterrupted footprint from ground "0" to a radius of 6,000 Km or more.