[Ares-races] Looking for tips on how to best approach those building a new hospital

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:35:19 -0500

Joe; the problems you pointed out about retro fitting is why I hope to be
involved in the beginning and as is adhering to applicable codes.  Another
wish is to have any  antenna and feedline installed by the contractor who
installs the hospital's own radio equipment. Thanks for the input.--73
Doug, N0LKK
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JOE" <[email protected]>
To: "Doug Younker" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Ares-races] Looking for tips on how to best approach those
building a new hospital

: One of the major problems in equipping a hospital with radio equipment is
: the routing of antenna cables from the rooftop to the operating room that
: might be several floors below.  Try to see if a metal conduit can be
: installed from the roof area (or upper floor) to the room that you will be
: locating the ham equipment in.   Then, you can easily pull coax through
: this conduit as you need in the future (a pull string left in the conduit
: is really handy).
:
: I work for a cellular company and we periodically have to do similar
: antenna installations on buildings.  The running of antenna feedline
: becomes a major problem at times, sometimes even having to Xray floors to
: be certain that we do not damage existing services.  Core boring concrete
: floors is very expensive, as is plenum-rated coax that is fire resistant
: for open runs in hospitals.  There are local safety codes that have to be
: met when running coax through the ceiling of some hospitals.
:
: I would approach the hospital with the thought that they probably need to
: run some kind of conduit for emergency services radios anyway, so the hams
: could share the conduit, or better yet, have their own parallel run of
: conduit.  Don't wait too long to fill the conduit with coax, as the IT
: department or someone else might discover it and grab it for their own
use!
:
: 73, Joe, K1ike
:
: At 08:24 PM 7/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
: >Greetings;
: >
: >     In the small rural community in which I live plans are starting to
build
: >a new small hospital.
:
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