I am planning on going by and getting a look, didn't know the ARC has added any newer ECRVs to the first group of excursions. I got this from an ARES list I belong to.....
To All Amateurs,
The ECRV (Emergency Communications Response Vehicle) will be at the Gaston County chapter of the American Red Cross, on Wednesday November 14th
American Red Cross,
Gaston County Chapter
190 S. Oakland Street
Gastonia, NC 28052
Some info on the ECRV:
The ECRV, or Emergency Communications Response Vehicle, was designed and created for the American Red Cross to provide communications links between
disaster relief operations and the Public Switched Telephone Network, the Internet and other public and private communications networks. They include an interoperability switch which allows agencies and the Red Cross to communicate with each other while using
their own radio systems.
The vehicles were extensively modified to add an 8.5KW alternator driven by the diesel engine, a 52' pop-up pneumatic mast capable of rotating while holding a large shortwave yagi antenna and which also has a video camera with telephoto lens for disaster assessment purposes, a VSAT two-way satellite antenna system, a one-way DirecTV DBS antenna, and sixteen HF, VHF, UHF, WiFi and microwave antennas feeding its radios and data systems. An ongoing series of upgrades enhance vehicle capabilities, and second-generation ECRVs use a variety of other, similar, vehicles.
Here are a couple of links for more information
http://www.ecrv4703.org
http://ecrv4712.org/ECRV4712
To All Amateurs,
The ECRV (Emergency Communications Response Vehicle) will be at the Gaston County chapter of the American Red Cross, on Wednesday November 14th
American Red Cross,
Gaston County Chapter
190 S. Oakland Street
Gastonia, NC 28052
Some info on the ECRV:
The ECRV, or Emergency Communications Response Vehicle, was designed and created for the American Red Cross to provide communications links between
disaster relief operations and the Public Switched Telephone Network, the Internet and other public and private communications networks. They include an interoperability switch which allows agencies and the Red Cross to communicate with each other while using
their own radio systems.
The vehicles were extensively modified to add an 8.5KW alternator driven by the diesel engine, a 52' pop-up pneumatic mast capable of rotating while holding a large shortwave yagi antenna and which also has a video camera with telephoto lens for disaster assessment purposes, a VSAT two-way satellite antenna system, a one-way DirecTV DBS antenna, and sixteen HF, VHF, UHF, WiFi and microwave antennas feeding its radios and data systems. An ongoing series of upgrades enhance vehicle capabilities, and second-generation ECRVs use a variety of other, similar, vehicles.
Here are a couple of links for more information
http://www.ecrv4703.org
http://ecrv4712.org/ECRV4712
