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Monitoring during major events – Case studies
6th International Seminar on Spectrum Monitoring
Kyiv, 10-12 July 2013
Ralf Trautmann
Name des Referenten
(ralf.trautmann@bnetza.de)
Introduction
What types of special/major events are there?
 What is different compared to usual business?
 What has to be done before the event?
 Which resources are required?
 What has to de done during the event?
 What problems can we expect?
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Introduction
Types of events
 Small events, no need of any attendance
 Events requiring merely spectrum monitoring
 Events requiring frequency management and
monitoring
 Big events requiring enormous preparations
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Introduction
What is different compared to usual business?
 Generally: same tasks as usual, but
 often incomplete information available
 short response time
 no possibility to ask the office, decisions have
to be made on site
 requiring quick decisions at a lower level
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Case studies
Case studies will provide some experiences!
G8 summit 2007
 World rowing championship 2007
 Formula 1 race Nürburgring 2007
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G8 summit
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The G8 summit, attended by 33 heads of governments,
took place in Heiligendamm, Germany, 6 – 8 June 2007.
In a meeting with other authorities two months before
the summit the technical possibilities were discussed and
the responsibilities were defined.
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G8 summit
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A fixed direction finder mounted on a 40 m
mast and 5 mobile direction finders of different
polices and of the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal
Network Agency) were launched.
Training: A mobile, non-permanent pulsed test
emission had to be localised a week before the
summit by all mobile direction finding teams.
Hundreds of mobile and hand-held radios were
in use during the summit by the safety and
emergency forces.
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An FM broadcast pirate transmitter was
operated in an opponents’ camp. The emissions
ceased firstly after a phone call. In the
evening, however, they continued to transmit
again. For safety reasons the police decided
not to confiscate the transmitter.
The opponents used PMR to communicate.
On June 2nd there was a major demonstration
of G8 opponents in the old harbour of Rostock.
The city center of Rostock was cordoned off.
1000 people were injured.
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Most interference of the
some 70 interference
problems could be solved
by the users, e.g. police.
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The radio monitoring staff
could temporarily not
access their hotel
because it was blocked
by opponents and media
people.
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G8 summit
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World Rowing Championship
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World Rowing Championship
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World Rowing Championship
Agenda
Saturday
 Test starts, rowing training (since Friday)
 Presentation of music and costumes
 Salutation by athletes
 Parade of teams, speeches and anthems
 Dance shows, fashion show
 Fireworks (no need for spectrum monitoring)
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World Rowing Championship
Agenda
Sunday- Wednesday
 Lower level rowing contests
 Relative low interest of mass media
 The host broadcaster and the radio monitoring
service started their on-site activities on
Monday
Thursday, Friday
 Finales and semi finales
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World Rowing Championship
Agenda
Saturday
 Finales
Sunday
 Finales
 Final ceremony
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World Rowing Championship
Figures
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300 accredited sports reporters were expected
A restaurant and a hall were used as the media
centre hosting 50 % of the workplaces.
The other 50 % were established on the
tribune with a view to the finishing line and to
a 70 m2 video screen.
The workplaces were equipped with ISDN and
analogue telephone connections, 3 Gbit/s DSL
broadband Internet connections and RLAN.
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World Rowing Championship 2007
Figures
51.000 spectators visited the rowing
championship 2007
(62.000 including the free of charge opening
ceremony)
 15.000 visitors came on the last day; 10.000
on the tribune and 5.000 in the meadows
 26 pieces of radio equipment of 19 networks
were inspected
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World Rowing Championship 2007
Monitoring results
• Spectrum supervision revealed several
unlicensed emissions.
• Search of these emissions using EB 100 and EB
200 handheld equipment from R&S
• One company had used frequencies without
license already at earlier events; they received
a fine.
• Some teams had not at all applied for a radio
license.
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World Rowing Championship 2007
Monitoring results
• A voice link from the tower to the mixer used
intentionally a frequency in the middle of 2
assigned microphone channels; they will
receive a fine.
• The organiser used partly radio amateur
frequencies.
• The host broadcaster is the frequency manager
for foreign broadcasters. He was not present all
the time. As a consequence, the organiser
made frequency agreements with TV service
providers.
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World Rowing Championship 2007
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Formula 1 race Nürburgring 2007
Arrival and accreditation on Wednesday
• Meeting of 6 technicians with the person in
charge for short-term licensing
• The same area as last year next to the TV
compound was assigned to park 1 GHz van, 1
direction finder vehicle and 2 standard
measurement vehicles
Access authorisation
• No problems, 7 photo badges were issued
granting access to paddock and TV compound
and 3 tabards for the course
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Formula 1 race Nürburgring 2007
Communication
• ISDN connection for telephone, fax,and
Internet
• GSM terminals
Short-term frequency assignments
• Due to the large number of interference there
was a need for short-term licenses again and
again
• Thorough arrangements with the police allowed
to find numerous solutions for wireless
cameras at 2.3 - 2.4 GHz
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Bibliography
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Report ITU-R SM.2257 provides a lot of
information regarding the preparation and
enforcement of major events.
Annexes contain interesting examples from
China, Brazil, Korea, Germany and UAE
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Questions
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