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14-13. Coordination radio, and wire and cable facilities. The company
commander and the technical control officer coor-
Coordination requirements are extensive because dinate with commanders, staffs, and technical
the facilities provided by the heavy tropo com- control elements of all signal units associated
pany may connect with light tropo, multichannel with the tropo company operations.
Section III.
TROPO PLATOON OPERATIONS
14-14. Introduction (1) A tropo team chief.
The tropo platoon installs (para 14-5a), operates, (2) Two senior tropo operators.
and maintains four multichannel heavy tropo ter- (3) Four fixed station multiplex equipment
minals and associated communications patching operator/repairmen.
central facilities, as directed. The platoon in-
(4) A senior multipurpose generator
cludes
opera-
a headquarters element and two tropo sec- tor/mechanic.
tions.
(5) Two tropo operators.
14-15. Platoon Headquarters (6) A multipurpose power generator oper-
The platoon headquarters includes a platoon ator/mechanic.
leader, a platoon sergeant, a light-truck driver,
and a radio operator who operates a single side- b. PATCENT Personnel. The PATCENT eleband
radio mounted in the platoon headquarters ment installs, operates, and maintains the equiptruck.
The SSB radio is used in either the com- ment used to interconnect, reroute, and test all
pany command and control net or in the platoon communications circuits at the tropo site. The
command and control net, as required. The pla- PATCENT element is assigned the following pertoon
headquarters is located in the vicinity of, or sonnel:
is collocated with, one or more of its tropo termi-
(1) A fixed station technical control supernals.
visor.
14-16. Tropo Section
(2) A fixed station electronic equipment repairman.
A heavy tropo section includes a section leader, a
section supervisor, and 31 other personnel who (3) Four fixed station technical controllers.
are organized into two tropo teams and a com- (4) A senior multipurpose power generator
munications patching central element. The as- operator/mechanic.
signment of personnel to the two tropo teams and (5) A fixed station electronic equipment reto
the PATCENT is covered in a and b below. pairman apprentice.
Local circumstances, however, such as state of individual
training, isolation of sites, and other fac- (6) A multipurpose power generator
tors, may dictate variations in team organization. operator/mechanic.
The two tropo teams operate a Multichannel communications
link, the terminals of which may be
separated by as much as 400 km. The section
PATCENT is collocated with one of these terminals.
The other terminal of the section must be
provided with PATCENT facilities from another
communications element. Sufficient personnel are
SUPERVISO
assigned to the section to provide an on-site 24-
hour operational and direct support level electronic
maintenance capability (para 14-22).
a. Tropo Team Personnel. Each of the two HEAVY HEAVY PATCENT
TROPO TEAM
TROPO TEAM
tropo teams of the section operates and maintains
the tropo and multiplex equipment of a tropo ter- FM 11-3--4
minal. To accomplish this, a heavy tropo team is
assigned the following personnel:
Figure 14-4. Heavy tropo section functional organization.
14-5