Coast Guard Command and Control onboard ship
The Swedish Coast Guard have equipped their three largest ships with radio command and control systems.
The systems includes Marine VHF, Airband VHF, Tetra (Rakel), Analogue UHF and POTS phone. All systems controlled from two operator PC´s with touch screens and headsets.
The ships have a command room separated from the bridge that is used during incidents. The personel there have a need to communicate on all systems available. For this purpose they use two operator consoles with either goose neck microphones or headsets.
Most of the radios are placed high up in a radio room in the ships mast. From there only a short arial cable is needed, so that the loss can be kept low. And down to the control room only a single TP cable is needed. Giving a very simple installation.
Two radios are also placed in the control room itself since they are not possible to make a remote channel change on. But still their audio and PTT is connected through the SoftRadio system.
Apart from the radios there is also a phone connection to the onboard PABX. Giving the radio operators a phone line to use from the same GUI and headset as the radios.
Future expansions may include remote operators as well as remote radio connections on other ships or on shore.