Best practice for in-vehicle radio equipment installations

This year’s FCS Comms Installer and the schemes the Federation of Communication Services (FCS) runs to ensure best practice for in-vehicle radio equipment installations have taken on new importance due to the scale of the task awaiting the installer community with the transition of the emergency services to the Emergency Services Network (ESN). With 45,000 vehicles needing to be fitted with new equipment and with the quality of the installations having a greater impact on the performance of in-vehicle radio devices, due to the use of MiMo (multiple-input and multiple-output) technology, there has never been a greater need for the industry’s engineers and technicians to be well trained and up to date with the latest developments in in-vehicle radio technology.

At the event, which took place at the Heart of England conference centre, FCS announced that it has for the first time in two and a half years updated FCS1362, the industry code of practice for the installation of radio frequency equipment in road vehicles. The new version (FCS1362:2016) is now available from the FCS FITAS website (www.fcs.org.uk/fcs-accreditation-scheme/fitas-setting-the- benchmark-for-vehicle-installati).