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.
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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.
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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.