Nokia courses attended: Nokia Actionet Basic course (in Finland) Nokia Actionet System course Nokia Actionet Maintenence course Nokia Transmission |
Nokia experience: Nokia Actionet: The Scottish Office went to open tender in 1990 for the supply of National Priivate Mobile Radio Network (PMR) for civil servants, the NHS and the Scottish Ambulance Service. This radio system was to be called SONNET, the Scottish Office National Network. Jerry worked for the Scottish Office between 1982 until 1996 and was one of the civil servant engineers designing & overseeing the network installation. This consisted of producing tender documents for the supply of the network to final system testing and evaluation including Data over Radio/ SMS. The system consists of hundreds of hill top sites throughout Scotland including the Western Isles. The biggest job was the overall network cell coverage and frequency planning. |
Nokia Actionet base station rack at Burgie radio site, northern Scotland. High band system |
After leaving the Directorate of Telecommunications, Scottish Office and setting
up Business Radio Systems, Jerry worked with consultants Coopers & Lybrand and
Radiant Consultancy Group working on designing trunked radio systems for Fife Regional
Council and East of Scotland Water. In 1999, Nokia Argentina was the next port of call to work on the new 800 Mhz trunked radio network being installed throughout South America. |
Jerry is conversant with: Nokia Actionet; trunked radio system Nokia Transmission Nokia DE21, DE34 GSM base station equipment. |
Santa Fe - a city in Argentina. The Nokia Actionet PMR antennae mounted on the roof
a skyscraper. This system was for Argetina Wireless Telecom. (AWT) |
The author working on the Actionet 800 Mhz base stations in Argentina. |
Commissioning of the 800 Mhz base stations. With the software release 8 upgrade
of Actionet this makes the system very similar to the old UK TACS systems. |
Nokia Transmission: The Scottish Office went to open tender for supply of a microwave backbone network to link some of the above radio sites together. Ferranti won the tender supplying their own equipment andalong with SIAE equipment from Italy. This had NOKIA mux equipment installed. BER and channlel tesing was conducted throughout this network. |
Nokia GSM: Jerry trained with Nokia on GSM equipment (DE21/34) in 1996 working out of Bristol on the Orange PCS network (mobile sites group). This involved setting up mobile BTS equipment to help overcome temporary heavy radio traffic volumes. In 1997 Jerry worked for Nokia direct out of Huntingdon on the Cellnet project. This was integration & commissioning of BTS equipment all over the UK. In 1998 Jerry went to Graz, Austria to integarte BTS DE34 equipment on the new Connect 'ONE 1800 Mhz network. |
Nokia DE34 outdoor unit c/w psu and 2mb microwave link equipment. |
Business Radio Systems - working with Nokia |