Formula 1 (F1)

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Team Radios

The vast majority of Formula 1 teams and officials (FIA and FOM) use a single TETRA digital trunked radio system for communications. This is provided by Riedel Communications. This provides up to 35 simultaneous duplex voice channels operating on x9 25khz wide frequency pairs each with 4 individual slots, with one reserved for control channel data. Riedel supply Motorola MTP850 portable radios and Riedel MAX headsets to the teams. This system does not use encryption.

Riedel TETRA System

The Riedel TETRA system operates in the 420-430MHz range in 12.5kHz steps for the TETRA Base (downlink) repeaters. The subscriber (uplink) frequencies are in the 410-420MHz range, -10MHz below the Base frequency. The TETRA MCC is 262 and MNC is 0007. The system does not use any TEA encryption. The frequency allocations vary between races. The list below shows typical allocations for the 2021 and 2020 season. A "*" indicates a 2022 season channels.

TETRA Channel	Downlink Frequency (MHz)	Uplink Frequency (MHz)
*1001	425.0375	415.0375
1007	425.1875	415.1875
*1009	425.2375	415.2375
1027	425.6750	415.6750
*1032	425.8125	415.8125
1046	426.1625	416.1625
1064	426.6125	416.6125
1078	426.9625	416.9625
1090	427.2625	417.2625
1098	427.4625	417.4625
*1110	427.7625	417.7625
1113	427.8375	417.8375
1121	428.0375	418.0375
*1123	428.0875	418.0875
*1154	428.8625	418.8625
1158	428.9500	418.9500
1165	429.1250	419.1250
*1168	429.2125	419.2125
1172	429.3000	419.3000
1178	429.4625	419.4625
1179	429.4750	419.4750
1186	429.6500	419.6500
*1187	429.6875	419.6875
1197	429.9375	419.9375

TETRA Group (GSSI)	Team	Driver	Channel
2014	-	-	-
2210	Ferrari ?	Leclerc ?	Car 16 Radio CH ?
2211	Ferrari ?	Sainz ?	Car 55 Radio CH ?
2220	-	-	-
2221	-	-	-
2240	Aston Martin	Vettel ?	Car 5 Radio CH ?
2241	Aston Martin	Stroll	Car 18 Radio CH
2250	-	-	Pit or Eng CH
2251	-	-	-
3251	-	-	Not F1 Team
4212	-	-	-
4213	-	-	-
4220	Mercedes	Bottas	Car 77 Radio CH
4221	Mercedes	Hamilton	Car 44 Radio CH
4236	-	-	-
4510	-	-	-
4513	-	-	-
5210	Red Bull	Verstappen	Car 33 Radio CH
5211	Red Bull	Perez	Car 11 Radio CH
5225	Red Bull	Verstappen	Car 33 Pit CH
52xx	Red Bull	-	Car 33 Eng CH
52xx	Red Bull	-	Car 11 Pit CH
52xx	Red Bull	-	Car 11 Eng CH
52xx	Red Bull	-	Garage CH
52xx	Red Bull	-	Race Radio CH
52xx	Red Bull	-	Pit Wall CH
6210	Alpine	Ocon	Car 31 Radio CH
6211	Alpine	Alonso ?	Car 14 Radio CH ?
6321	-	-	-
7510	Alfa Romeo ?	Giovinazzi ?	Car 99 Radio CH ?
7511	Alfa Romeo ?	Räikkönen ?	Car 7 Radio CH ?
9210	Alpha Tauri	Gasly	Car 10 Radio CH
9211	Alpha Tauri	Tsunoda	Car 22 Radio CH

MRTC Nexedge

Since 2020, the Williams F1 Team switched from Riedel to a Kenwood NXDN Nexedge digital radio system supplied by MRTC Ltd. For 2021, McLaren F1 have also moved from Riedel to this MRTC system. MRTC supply UHF Kenwood NX3320 portable radios. This system uses the NXDN9600 protocol. This system does not use encryption.

The MRTC Nexedge system operates in the 450-470MHz range in 12.5kHz steps. The frequency allocations vary between races. The list below shows allocations for the 2022 season.

2022 Williams MRTC Channel	Repeater Frequency (MHz)	Mobile Frequency (MHz)	RAN Code
Williams	469.6625	459.7875	-
Williams	469.4500	459.4500	-
Williams	468.4750	458.4750	-
Williams	468.5625	458.6125	-
Williams	-	454.9500	-
Williams	-	455.7500	-
Williams	-	458.5875	-
Williams	-	458.6750	-
Williams	-	459.4500	-
Williams	-	459.7625	-
Williams	-	468.4250	-
Williams	-	468.6375	-
Williams	-	469.3750	-
Williams	-	469.6375	-

2022 McLaren MRTC Channel	Repeater Frequency (MHz)	Mobile Frequency (MHz)	RAN Code
McLaren	-	463.3250	-
McLaren	-	464.26875	-
McLaren	-	465.0625	-
McLaren	-	446.4500	-
McLaren	-	446.9250	-
McLaren	-	451.5000	-
McLaren	-	452.7000	-
McLaren	-	455.2875	-
McLaren	-	457.4875	-

2022 MRTC Channel	Repeater Frequency (MHz)	Mobile Frequency (MHz)	RAN Code
Team	-	463.0250	-
Team	-	463.3000	-
Team	-	463.5000	-
Team	-	463.8750	-
Team	-	464.3750	-
Team	-	464.4750	-

The list below shows typical allocations for the 2021 season.

Williams MRTC Channel	Repeater Frequency (MHz)	Mobile Frequency (MHz)	RAN Code
CAR 1	469.66250	-	R12
TEAM 1	469.38750	459.43750	R11
CAR 2	468.43125 or 468.48750	-	R22
TEAM 2	468.5625	458.61250	R21
2021 Alternatives	464.0125, 459.7875, 455.2125, 458.6125, 462.0500, 466.9250	-	-

McLaren MRTC Channel	Mobile Frequency (MHz)	RAN Code
LN CAR	458.7625 or 467.9625	R7
LN PITWALL	458.2875	R3
DR CAR	459.5250 or 467.8875	R5
DR PITWALL	459.3625	R1
SUPPORT	458.8500	R9
PIRELLI	459.6500	R8
Marketing	469.8500 (NXDN4800)	R1

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