Spectrum Monitoring

Geneva, Switzerland – 6 July 2022. The recent meeting of Study Group 1 of the Radiocommunication Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was held in Geneva, Switzerland and was the first in-person meeting of the group convened by the ITU since before the pandemic began. Study Group 1 focuses on radio spectrum management and spectrum monitoring, and the meeting was attended virtually and in person by 250 delegates of more than 40 countries and 20 scientific/industrial organizations from around the world.

This meeting of the Radiocommunication Bureau witnessed a number of significant accomplishments:

• Completion of revisions to Report SM.2257 on spectrum monitoring during major events, including the Japanese experience with the Olympic Games.
• In-depth discussions about the relatively new and active field of spectrum monitoring from drones.
• Extensive revision of Report SM.2452: Electromagnetic field measurements to assess human exposure.
• Discussion of several other important topics, including the use of artificial intelligence and big data for spectrum monitoring, with decisions as to how to continue to develop these topics over the next year.

In addition, the ITU is about to embark on a major update to the ITU-R Handbook on Spectrum Monitoring, and TCI International will be working alongside other members to ensure that its guiding set of principles propel the future of spectrum monitoring.

According to TCI’s ITU representative Roy Woolsey, “It was nice to be back together and work with other delegates in person, including many that I have had the pleasure of working with in past years, rather than only having meetings “virtually” as we did the last two years.”

The Radiocommunication Bureau of the ITU has several study groups that address various radiocommunication issues. As an associate member of Study Group 1, TCI collaborates with other members to further the development of the guiding principles for spectrum monitoring and management

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.

TCI resumes in-person training – not held since 2019!

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TCI International, Inc. (an SPX Company) is once again pleased to host industry and government professionals from around the world at a tuition-free training course offered by the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI). We invite you to join us at TCI corporate headquarters in Fremont, California for:

USTTI Course 22-100
Practical Applications of Spectrum Management and Spectrum Monitoring
May 02-May 06, 2022
Fremont, California (Northern Silicon Valley)

Course description
The course focuses on the practical application of ITU-compliant spectrum management and monitoring techniques and the modern-day challenges associated with them. The course employs classroom and hands-on activities to provide students with a practical overview of spectrum management and monitoring techniques and their interaction. Classroom time is used to instruct in the system planning and coverage analysis, operational principles of a monitoring station (fixed, mobile, and transportable), principles of signal measurements, radio direction finding, and signal identification and recording. The hands-on portion of the course will demonstrate real-time application of the principles taught in the classroom and include mission planning, operational set-up, running missions, and data analysis and management.

Learning Objectives
To learn practical implementation of spectrum management, spectrum monitoring, radio direction finding, and signal measurement techniques as they relate to the international standards of the ITU and today’s signal environment. This includes:

• monitoring coverage and planning tools;
• radio direction finding;
• signal monitoring, identification, and correlation to the frequency management database;
• spectrum occupancy observations and analysis as part of the frequency management function; and
• management and monitoring trends, big data management.

Focus
Managerial and high-level technical, with emphasis on hands-on demonstrations.

TCI’s longstanding commitment to spectrum monitoring includes advancing the state of technology and enhancing the expertise of users. This year’s seminar offers an unusual opportunity to acquire practical knowledge and technical insights from an exceptionally accomplished team of spectrum professionals.

We are excited to get back into the training room and share the knowledge!

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.

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TCI International, Inc. (an SPX Company) is once again pleased to host industry and government professionals from around the world at a tuition-free training course offered by the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI). We invite you to join us at TCI corporate headquarters in Fremont, California for:

USTTI Course 22-100
Practical Applications of Spectrum Management and Spectrum Monitoring
May 02-May 06, 2022
Fremont, California (Northern Silicon Valley)

Course description
The course focuses on the practical application of ITU-compliant spectrum management and monitoring techniques and the modern-day challenges associated with them. The course employs classroom and hands-on activities to provide students with a practical overview of spectrum management and monitoring techniques and their interaction. Classroom time is used to instruct in the system planning and coverage analysis, operational principles of a monitoring station (fixed, mobile, and transportable), principles of signal measurements, radio direction finding, and signal identification and recording. The hands-on portion of the course will demonstrate real-time application of the principles taught in the classroom and include mission planning, operational set-up, running missions, and data analysis and management.

Learning Objectives
To learn practical implementation of spectrum management, spectrum monitoring, radio direction finding, and signal measurement techniques as they relate to the international standards of the ITU and today’s signal environment. This includes:

• monitoring coverage and planning tools;
• radio direction finding;
• signal monitoring, identification, and correlation to the frequency management database;
• spectrum occupancy observations and analysis as part of the frequency management function; and
• management and monitoring trends, big data management.

Focus
Managerial and high-level technical, with emphasis on hands-on demonstrations.

TCI’s longstanding commitment to spectrum monitoring includes advancing the state of technology and enhancing the expertise of users. This year’s seminar offers an unusual opportunity to acquire practical knowledge and technical insights from an exceptionally accomplished team of spectrum professionals.

We are excited to get back into the training room and share the knowledge!

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.

Fremont, CA – 12 April 2022. The Department of Electronic Communications (DEC) of the Republic of Cyprus selected TCI to provide its new National Radio Frequency Monitoring System.

TCI was awarded the international tender issued by DEC for a turnkey spectrum monitoring and direction-finding system that includes five fixed and two mobile stations, all with upgraded monitoring, TDOA and DF functionality with installation, training and 10-year maintenance services. The system also includes a full-featured monitoring control center that provides an interface to their license database, along with portable measuring equipment for 5G applications.

The upgrade includes the replacement of four existing and the addition of one new fixed spectrum monitoring site with the TCI Model 739 Compact Spectrum Monitoring equipment and TCI’s Scorpio™ software. The two new mobile monitoring stations will also be equipped with the TCI Model 739, thus providing DEC with a common and integrated platform that can be operated from any Scorpio client within DEC’s National Spectrum Monitoring and Management System. According to a DEC official, “With the new equipment from TCI International, the Republic of Cyprus will manage to successfully monitor the radio frequency spectrum within the country.”

DEC and TCI signed the contract for this initiative in June 2021 and work began in late 2021. Completion of the final phases is expected in 2022.

TCI is excited to be DEC’s selected supplier for such an important system that will provide the latest generation spectrum monitoring tools for The Republic of Cyprus.

 

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation, and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military, and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.

Kosovo’s Regulatory Authority of Electronic and Postal Communications (ARKEP) kicked off its Kosovo Digital Economy Project in early 2021 by implementing its National Spectrum Monitoring System (NSMS), based on TCI technology, which will provide new capabilities to monitor and regulate Kosovo’s radio frequency spectrum.

TCI was awarded the contract for the international tender issued by ARKEP under the Ministry of Economy and Environment, for a turnkey spectrum monitoring and direction-finding system that includes four fixed monitoring stations, one mobile monitoring station, one transportable monitoring station, and portable monitoring equipment. TCI will also be providing a full-featured monitoring control center that provides a central monitoring database with an interface ARKEP’s license database. In addition, TCI will also be performing installation, training, and maintenance services.

According to a senior ARKEP official, “The NSMS project is very important to ARKEP because this new technology gives us the ability to do continuous frequency spectrum monitoring in the range of 9 kHz to 40 GHz. The NSMS will help us to identify and eliminate all sources of radio frequency interference.”

ARKEP signed the contract for this initiative in December 2020 and work began in 2021. Completion of the final phases is expected in early 2022.

TCI is excited to be AKEP’s selected supplier for such an important system that will provide the latest generation spectrum monitoring tools for Kosovo.

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation, and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military, and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.

TCI International, Inc. (TCI) and Enterprise Control Systems Ltd. (ECS) will jointly emphasize the following items of interest to the electromagnetic warfare community:

ECS joins TCI under SPX Corporation: SPX announced on August 3 that it had acquired ECS and joined TCI under the corporation’s Communications Technology (“CommTech”) platform to address evolving threats in the RF spectrum battlespace. Headquartered near Northampton, UK, ECS is a leader in the design and manufacture of highly engineered tactical datalinks and radio frequency (RF) inhibitors, to counter – unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) and counter remotely controlled improvised explosive devices (C-RCIEDs).

Introducing BlackTALON: Integrated counter-drone solution – ECS and TCI introduce the new BlackTALON series of counter-drone solutions. The new platform provides RF-only drone detection, location and defeat capabilities; or the addition of radar and electro-optical sensors for more robust detection, tracking and target identification. In addition, any existing Blackbird COMINT system can be upgraded to perform full drone RF detection, location, identification, tracking, and defeat.

Introducing Independent Claw: Independent Claw is a self-contained directional inhibitor system that combines an RF transmitter with a high-gain, multi-band directional antenna system. Claw RF Inhibitor’s sensor-agnostic, modular design means it could not be easier for an integrator looking for an RF defeat solution to harmonize seamlessly with third-party multisensory C2 drone detection and kinetic systems, to provide world-class RF inhibition capability for C-UAS.

Introducing BlackSWIFT: Next Generation Tactical COMINT Hardware Platform – TCI leverages 50+ years’ RF spectrum expertise to provide significant performance improvements and higher levels of CONOPS flexibility with its BlackSWIFT hardware platform. Designed to operate the Blackbird COMINT and drone detection and geolocation software, the platform provides faster scan rates, broader instantaneous bandwidths, programmable DDCs, and man portable IP67 and rack-mount configurations.

Together, ECS and TCI will provide a more holistic, yet increasingly customer-tailored solution for the full lifecycle of RF communications: from tactical datalinks providing long-range, secure communications; to tactical SIGINT/COMINT solutions that detect, locate and classify RF communications; to RF inhibitors that can inhibit RF communications signals. Hardware and software integration across offerings from both companies will optimize signals intelligence, paint a clearer battlefield common operational picture (COP) of the RF spectrum and facilitate threat interdiction.

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.

Fremont, CA – October 2021 – TCI International, Inc. is proud to support our valued customer, the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) with highly specialized spectrum monitoring and direction-finding equipment as they work to keep all participants at the EXPO 2020 event safe and secure, and ensure open and clear communication channels.

TCI is delighted to participate in this important mission and to be part of this unique global experience, a remarkable event bringing the world together to help create a cleaner, safer and healthier future.

After a year of delay, the EXPO2020 kicked-off on October 1, 2021.  With over 20 million visitors from around the globe expected in a free and open exchange of new ideas and innovations, Dubai’s EXPO2020  helps reimagine the global economy and showcases solutions focusing on Sustainability, Mobility and Empowerment.

TDRA will be using four specialized Mobile Monitoring Stations supplied by TCI to monitor the spectrum usage over the frequency range of 20MHz to 8.5 GHz to ensure clear channels and no interference during the event.

TCI is honored to be a partner in providing safety and security to all participants at this important event.

 

About TCI
TCI International, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SPX Corporation. TCI provides turn-key solutions for spectrum management and monitoring, direction finding, geolocation and communications intelligence to civilian, government, military and intelligence agencies as well as antennas for communications and high-power radio broadcasting. TCI is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. For more information, visit www.tcibr.com.