Applications
The SALOR3 locomotive radio is standard equipment inside mainline locomotives operating on the rail network owned and managed by the New Zealand Railways Corporation (ONTRACK). This device contains componentry supplied by Xworks and provides special features certified by the Rail and Maritime Transport Union for single man crewing on locomotives in NZ.
Specific components of the SALOR3 radio include:
- ARK2 mobile radio controller
- ARGO control head
- ACE hardware ID
- Integrated Tait TM8110 VHF and UHF transceivers
- 72Vdc power supply
- Garmin 35 GPS
- GSM Antenna
- VHF/UHF Antennas
Features provided by the SALOR3 radio include:
- Simultaneous operation of VHF and UHF radios from single control head
- Programmable VHF/UHF radio channel scanning
- 20ms 5+1 Selcall en/decode
- VHF/UHF cross-band for use of vehicle as local repeater
- Vigilance input for "dead man" detection
- Automatic entertainment audio muting
- GPS tracking via Kupe and GeVIS
- Wireless software and configuration updates from Kupe