ACE High

The rising sun outlines a Tropo antenna, at an ACE High communication site above the island of Levkas.

ACE High was an abbreviation for Allied Command Europe; a fixed service NATO radiocommunication system which dates back to 1956. The frequency supportability and frequency assignments were profited in accordance with the NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement (NJFA). The system was decommissioned in the late 1980s. The system was designed to be an UHF troposcatter radio system, which was meant to provide long-range communication service in the form of telephone and telegraph in the NATO chain of command. These services combined produced over 200 channels and equipment was in place to multiplex them to contain up to 12 different calls each. There were 82 terrestrial stations, located in 9 different NATO countries.

The transmitters broadcast at 832.56 to 959.28 MHz and some were able to produce a transmitting power of about 10 kilowatts.[1]

ACE High sites

The ACE High network included the following major sites and terminals, but also connected LOS (line of sight) microwave links to other networks reaching C2 centres not listed here.[2]

Norway - AFNORTH
Denmark - AFNORTH
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
Germany
Denmark

See also

References

  1. ↑ ACE HIGH. SCALE OF THE SYSTEM, Andy Emmerson, 2003 // Subterranea Britannica: "The emission mode was F9 (frequency modulation, miscellaneous), and output powers typically 10kW to 50kW."
  2. ↑ http://rammstein.dfmk.hu/~s200/tropo.html

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