With six Telex BTR-80N wireless base stations, each with 24 TR-82N dual-channel belt packs in operation for the new facility working in conjunction with 20 wireless microphones and 16 wireless IFB systems throughout the space, Bexel's Distributed Antenna System allows maximum coverage facility wide.
"Wireless is our specialty," says Bexel's senior project engineer, Jim Dugan. "We often work with The Systems Group on facilities where they are the integrator; they bring us in to do the work specifically on the wireless portion of a project. We design, install and commission the entire RF system for the facility. We like the Telex BTR products because they're robust, extremely durable, and reliable. The BTR's have definitely proven their worth over the years."
At Corus Quay, The Systems Group provided an RTS ADAM digital matrix as the heart of its intercom system, which interfaces directly via four wires with the Telex BTR-80N wireless intercom base stations. "The Telex BTR-80N's integrate seamlessly with the ADAM frame," Dugan explains. "It's such a perfect virtual wireless extension of the intercom's functionality. Telex has made many enhancements on interfacing with the BTR-80N. It's very easy to get around and very simple to interface either two-wire or four-wire. There's also a very convenient aux Input on the base, which can be used as a program input."
The wireless intercoms used are six Telex BTR-80N narrow band two-channel UHF synthesized wireless base stations. The new narrowband design simplifies frequency coordination and planning because of its more efficient use of spectrum. "You can, in effect, get more beltpack frequencies to take advantage of as much spectrum as possible, especially in the ever-popular and changing UHF spectrum," adds Dugan.
(Jim Evans)
