SIT SPORTS experience during Spanish Cycling tour
La Vuelta is one of the leading cycling races in the international calendar. 21 stages, three weeks of competition between August and September, and more than 3000 km covering the Spanish geography.
In order to provide RF coverage of a long distance event, there are used multiple aerial and ground assets, including four motorcycles with a cameraman, two Cineflex helicopters, three relay helicopters and one relay airplane.
This race presents many challenges due to the long distances of coverage and obtructions such as tunnels and trees.
SIT SPORTS provides equipment for one cineflex helicopter, one relay helicopter and one relay plane. SIT SPORTS chose the HDT-02 transmitter, PA-10 power amplifer and GPS tracking system developed by SVP. This system uses DVB-T2 modulation ffering a reliable and robust system for transmissions ground to air, air to air and air to ground. The DVB-T2 in combination with NTT H.264 encoder offers the best signal quality at the lowest bitrate, obtaining very long distances of coverage with high stability of the signal.
SIT SPORTS has worked with SVP Broadcast Microwave in events throughout Europe and South America. They use SVP products every week for small and big events, mainly of them are sport events but also conferences, news or events for security departments.
“For us it is important to make a diference, something that we have obtained thanks to the DVB-T2. Thanks to the
SVP products we have achieved great reliability and quality in each event, which has placed us in a good position
in the market of broadcast transmissions.”
Javier Trifol
RF Engineer, SIT SPORTS