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IMT ENG Motorcycle front view

Going Full Throttle On
Location Coverage
By Elena Waldhuber
Director of Marketing, IMT

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n today's broadcast landscape,
viewers want to feel like they are
part of the action when it comes
to TV news and sports broadcasts.
This has launched television
stations on a never-ending quest to
provide highly in-depth broadcasts.
With the introduction of the new
ENG motorcycle from Integrated
Microwave Technologies, LLC
(IMT), television stations can now
navigate through congested and
high-trafﬁc city locations quickly and
easily, making it far more feasible to
capture this kind of footage.
IMT's ENG motorcycle features its
Nucomm Compact Portable Tx-II
(CPTx-II) video transmitter, which
weighs about three kilograms and
comes with a variety of mounts. The
reporter can mount the camera on
the motorcycle or, alternatively,
use an ENG camera to capture
images on the move.
The system is designed to ensure
convenient deployment, as the
transmitter is waterproof, lightweight
and can be quickly transferred from
one vehicle to another. Users can
modify the system to ﬁt nearly any
motorbike. It can also be quickly
deployed from a motorcycle to any
ENG vehicle, or used as a portable
transmitter.
A lightweight RF video transmitter
that delivers HD/SD output at up to
eight watts in 2k DVB-T COFDM
mode, the CPTx-II supports video/
audio/data/telemetry with selectable
modulation bandwidths of 6, 7,
and 8MHz. In addition to its small
size, the unit has very low latency
and power consumption. It was
designed to offer exceptional RF
performance and ease of operation.
The ENG motorcycle itself gives

television stations added mobility
in the ﬁeld, getting reporters to
the scene faster so that they
can catch a developing story on
the move or even capture the
drama of a race from within. The
durability and small form factor
of the CPTx-II, meanwhile, allows
broadcasters to cover stories in
locations that traditional ENG trucks
cannot access.
It is ideal for covering motorcycle
and bicycle races, marathons,
triathlons and other fast-paced,
high-speed ENG/OB events using
such smaller on-course vehicles
as cars, motorcycles and even
bicycles. Instead of "run-and-shoot,"
motorcycles and other smaller ENG/
OB and production vehicles are now
"run and transmit."
The manoeuvrability of a
motorcycle fitted with video
transmission capability offers
signiﬁcant advantages, especially in
congested cities, as the camera can
get onto roads and into locations
that might be too narrow for a
traditional vehicle to navigate safely,
allowing the reporter to get to the
news scene first.
In addition, the ENG motorcycle
can provide a significant cost
savings over a traditional ENG news
van, adding even more of a beneﬁt
to a broadcaster's bottom line.

IMT ENG Motorcycle CPTx II transmitter

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