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Telefunken Racoms HF-7000
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A family of Tactical Radios
- wanted item
HF-7000 was the name of a family of Tactical Radio Systems, developed
in 19941 by Telefunken Racoms in Ulm
(Germany) for use by Special Forces (SF) and Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF) [1].
The family consists of an HF Radio Unit HRU-7000, Power Amplifier PAU-7400,
Antenna Matcher ATU-7000, Terminal Crypto Unit TCU-7000
and several other modules and accessories.
The image above shows the HRM-7000 manpack radio with a detached message
entry device, called the Terminal Crypto Unit, TCU-7000 XP.
The TCU shows great resemblance to the Digital Storage Unit (DSU) of
the FS-5000 radio station, that was developed
Telefunken in 1985 for Nato Special Services [1].
The FS-5000 was used by various stay-behind networks in Europe and even
in the US, and became known as HARPOON.
Although the TCU has many improvements over the original DSU,
it is backward compatible with the FS-5000.
The HRM-7000 was designed for high-speed communication with a base station,
such as the BS-7010 or the earlier BS-5000.
Messages are sent at very high speed (2000 baud) over a narrow-band HF
radio channel. It takes a maximum of 0.8s to send a 55 character message [4].
The Telefunken HF-7000 family should not be confused with the HF-7000
military radio system from Harris, that is also used for tactical military
communication in several countries.
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According to the Telefunken website [1] the HF-7000 family
was developed in 1998. However, this can not be correct as the FS-5000
technical manual [4] from 1994 lists various members of the HF-7000
family, and in particular the HRM-7000, as compatible with the FS-5000.
That means that the 7000 is from 1994 or earlier.
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HRU 7000 HF Radio Unit PAU 7400 400W HF Amplifier ATU 7000 Automatic Antenna Matcher BPU 7000 Battery unit TCU 7000 Terminal Crypto Unit APU 7002 Accumulator Power Unit VCH 7000 Vocoder Crypto Handset ACU 7002 Battery Charger PSU 7000 Vehicle Power Supply Unit TMK 7000 Tactical Antenna Mast HRM 7000 Manpack Radio HRM 7400 Mobile Radio (400W) HRM 7000 Mobile Radio (30W) DPA 7000 Dipole Antenna EKS 7000 EKASUS Frequency Management System
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- Telefunken Racoms, History
Timeline -> 1985, SY5000 adaptive HF system to NATO special services.
Telefunken website. Retrieved May 2009.
- Telefunken Racoms, HF Gerätefamilie 7000
12-page full-colour brochure (German). April 2006. Retrieved May 2013.
- Telefunken Racoms, HF Gerätefamilie 7000
12-page full-colour brochure (German). April 2009. Retrieved August 2010.
- Feldstation FS-5000M, Technisches Handbuch, Teil 2, Bedienungsanleiting
Field Station FS-5000, Technical Manual, Part 2, User Manual (German).
March 1994.
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![Copyright Telefunken Racoms. Image taken from brochure HF Gerätefamilie 7000 [2].](img/hrm_01.png)