Radius provide vital data radio communication link to Railroad Company to aid transport needs to New York State.

The NYSW (New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway) operates over 400 miles of track in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. They serve over 85 customers and transport a wide range of commodities such as feed ingredients, lumber and other building materials, chemicals and aggregates for customers in New York State.

The PDR121 data radios have been installed in order to monitor the electrical power lines at 17 locations along a stretch of line. Previously NYSW had used private wire connections on telephone poles along the side of the track. These have been problematic and costly to run and maintain.

The reason the PDR121 data radio was suitable is not just associated with the ease of installation and set up. The data radios have high receiver sensitivity allowing them to communicate over large distance, and since they are digital they are less susceptible to electromagnetic interference compared with analogue radio technology. Add to this is a ‘forward error correction’ algorithm whichmeans that even when corruption of a transmission occurs, it would have to affect more than 30% of the data message before it caused problems.