Affordable Desktop Radio Training

Real radios are expensive, difficult to obtain, need to be secured and require ongoing maintenance. Calytrix CNR-Sim, with the CNR-Skins add-on, offers a solution to these training limitations and enables effective communications training to be conducted in existing training rooms or through the use of a portable tablet solution.

CNR-Skins enables effective low cost radio training without the need for expensive real radios.

CNR-Skins provides a set of realistic, fully interactive, graphical radio faceplates (“skins”) to deliver a realistic operator training environment. New CNR-Skins can be developed to almost any degree of fidelity, from basic familiarisation training through to deep menu functions. At a fraction of the price of a real radio CNR-Skins is an affordable radio training solution.

• Use the simulated radios to conduct initial radio training
• Practice radio procedure across simulated network, and record and playback for AAR
• Maintain radio currency and competency without accessing the real radios
• Introduce new radio equipment into service, and
• Training basic radio fault finding skills

USE CASE: ADF Radio Training

Calytrix worked with the Australian Army’s Forces Command (FORCOMD) to develop a suite of deployable tablet based radio training solutions to support the introduction into service of a new radio.

As part of an integrated Battlespace Communications System for the ADF's land elements, the Army was replacing its analogue radios with new digitized combat net radios. The introduction and rollout generated a number of immediate training issues; notably the high net training liability, and the cost and availability of the real radios for training.

Calytrix worked with the Australian Army’s Forces Command (FORCOMD) to develop a suite of deployable tablet based radio training solutions to support the introduction into service of a new radio.

The ADF’s adopted solution was based on Calytrix’s CNR-Skins deployed on a fleet on touch screen tablet computers. The CNR Radio Desktop Training Systems addresses both basic radio procedural training and radio familiarisation. The delivered package also included CNR-Live to create a blended learning environment between virtual and real radios.