I've been busy with the County Incident command trailer over the past 16 months. So I figured I'd post up some of it recent progress.
The Communications systems include:
(2) iCOM IC-F1721D P25 Digital mobiles radios. Each is reverse programed for Fire and Law Enforcement - So both radios have the same programming except the LE radio has LE channels in Zone-1 and the Fire, Fire channels in Zone-1.
(1) iCOM IC-7000 Amateur All band, All Mode transceiver.
(1) Maxon SM-4450 UHF Mobile radio (Programed for UHF Inter-op and CERT licenses)
(1) Radio Shack Pro-433 Trunk Tracker Scanner
(1) EF Johnson 23 Ch. Citizen band radio (The EM made me put it in)
Not Pictured:
(1) Raytheon ACU-1000 inter-op Radio, (1) Radio Tone Duplex Repeater/Controller
(1) Dell Deminson Pent-4 Desktop PC (This houses Radio control and programming software only)
All External masts are 45' push-up poles equipt with Larsen Portable ground plane kits accepting NMO mount larsen Dual Band mobile antennas. 1 diamond quad band antenna, 1 radio shack Dome TV antenna, 1 MFJ Screwdriver antenna 15M to 80M AM/SSB.
The vehicle uses a 6 channel audio mixer which runs all 6 radios in the box and outputs through 2 speakers and also has headset capabilities per channel.
With the VHF antenna at 30 feet elevation we can key the Dallas County Sheriff repeater (Ch-5) with little noise some 75 miles to our South. Much of the frequencies contained is from the Radioreference database and the two laptops which travel with the unit have various county live feeds and frequency database pages book marked.
My Apologies for the Photo quality, but I used my Blackberry and the res leaves much to be desired.
The Trailer was purchased from FEMA, this was one of those trailers that made the news. We got it CHEAP! DHS Grants paid for all the equipment on board, I personally volunteered a few hundred hours building this beast. I also have the ability to scan for and intercept several bands of wireless internet, We also have an Air card router which is used when running T-LETS. The trailer has 5 CP200 radios assigned to it with a separate operating frequency from Fire or Law Enforcement. A forward room houses more maps and Tactical planning stuff, a2 more LCD TV's, closed & Encrypted intercom with the console and wireless, encrypted video surveillance.
The Communications systems include:
(2) iCOM IC-F1721D P25 Digital mobiles radios. Each is reverse programed for Fire and Law Enforcement - So both radios have the same programming except the LE radio has LE channels in Zone-1 and the Fire, Fire channels in Zone-1.
(1) iCOM IC-7000 Amateur All band, All Mode transceiver.
(1) Maxon SM-4450 UHF Mobile radio (Programed for UHF Inter-op and CERT licenses)
(1) Radio Shack Pro-433 Trunk Tracker Scanner
(1) EF Johnson 23 Ch. Citizen band radio (The EM made me put it in)
Not Pictured:
(1) Raytheon ACU-1000 inter-op Radio, (1) Radio Tone Duplex Repeater/Controller
(1) Dell Deminson Pent-4 Desktop PC (This houses Radio control and programming software only)
All External masts are 45' push-up poles equipt with Larsen Portable ground plane kits accepting NMO mount larsen Dual Band mobile antennas. 1 diamond quad band antenna, 1 radio shack Dome TV antenna, 1 MFJ Screwdriver antenna 15M to 80M AM/SSB.
The vehicle uses a 6 channel audio mixer which runs all 6 radios in the box and outputs through 2 speakers and also has headset capabilities per channel.
With the VHF antenna at 30 feet elevation we can key the Dallas County Sheriff repeater (Ch-5) with little noise some 75 miles to our South. Much of the frequencies contained is from the Radioreference database and the two laptops which travel with the unit have various county live feeds and frequency database pages book marked.
My Apologies for the Photo quality, but I used my Blackberry and the res leaves much to be desired.
The Trailer was purchased from FEMA, this was one of those trailers that made the news. We got it CHEAP! DHS Grants paid for all the equipment on board, I personally volunteered a few hundred hours building this beast. I also have the ability to scan for and intercept several bands of wireless internet, We also have an Air card router which is used when running T-LETS. The trailer has 5 CP200 radios assigned to it with a separate operating frequency from Fire or Law Enforcement. A forward room houses more maps and Tactical planning stuff, a2 more LCD TV's, closed & Encrypted intercom with the console and wireless, encrypted video surveillance.
