The system will be delivered within 18 months and will be ready for use within two years. It has modular structure, there is no single point of failure. If one component fails, the whole thing will not become unserviceable. The system, which can be assembled or dismantled in four to eight hours, can be installed on a tower or mounted on a trailer and moved around. It can also diagnose its own problems, each of which takes an average of 30 minutes to fix.
Some sites have additional channels unavailable due to site-specific interference concerns.
Software modifications for a frequency synthesizer will be required to preclude the use of the reallocated channels and to retain the radar s operational capabilities within the remaining band. A hardware modification will be required to replace the frequency oscillators with a frequency synthesizer and to prevent use of the 1390-1400 band segment. If this occurs, a hardware modification will be required to eliminate the problem. Calibration and Maintenance Requirements. The loss of 1390-1400 MHz will require modification of the software used for calibration, monitoring, and fault isolation.