17C-18 PMR Battery and Range Test

It is necessary to be able to estimate the battery life and effective range of the PMR radios used in the Aouda suits and by the field crew during Mars analogue missions.

In order to ensure a reliable usage and conduct maintenance of the devices in appropriate time intervals, it is necessary to have an exact knowledge of the devices’ estimated battery life and range. Since the numbers provided by the manufacturers are often only for very specific use cases under optimal conditions, it is necessary to conduct a more realistic experiment.

This experiment involves physically locating transceivers and operators over a large area and using random word speech recognition in order to estimate communication quality.

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