[CALV-AUXCOMM] Reminder - Calvert AUXCOMM Meeting 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 25th

[James Tetlow]

See all there, should be interesting meeting, and good food!

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Best Regards,
Jim Tetlow
jimtetlow1007 at comcast.net



> On Apr 19, 2018, at 9:31 PM, Shawn Donley <n3ae at comcast.net> wrote:
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> All,
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> A reminder that our April AUXCOMM meeting, normally the third Tuesday, is on Wednesday, April 25th.
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> TIME:  7:00 PM  (not our usual 7:30)
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> LOCATION:  Three Brothers, Prince Frederick     https://goo.gl/maps/pojpDkdGkMz
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>       --- Have a pizza or your favorite Italian dish while we talk
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> AGENDA:
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> As you have probably heard, the county is significantly behind in their plans to purchase and install new radios and antennas for our AUXCOMM activities.   This presents an opportunity to conduct a little "thought experiment."  We'll be looking for ideas to answer the following question:
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> What can we do to provide AUXCOMM emergency communications throughout the county without the use of any government or non-private infrastructure.
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> This means our own radio equipment, antennas, antenna sites/supports, etc.   No county or company towers, buildings, radios or antennas, including the current voice and packet repeaters at Mt Hope and Prince Frederick since they are located on county/state property and towers. 
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> The solution could be a combination of fixed assets at our home QTH's plus deployable equipment. 
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> Also assume we have no permanent equipment/antennas at the primary EOC (courthouse) or the alternate EOC (Barstow) but still need to communicate into and out of those locations using some sort of rapidly deployable gear.  
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> Minimum requirements:
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> 1. County wide voice comm with minimum number if dead spots.  Possibilities:  HF NVIS on 40M/80M, 10M or 6M SSB/FM, VHF/UHF with deployable repeaters, simplex relays, etc.
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> 2. County wide digital comm.  Possibilities:  packet, WL2K, BPQ network, deployable or packet repeaters or packet repeaters at home QTH's.  Or other alternatives like NBEMS ( http://www.arrl.org/nbems )  or Outpost ( http://www.outpostpm.org/index.php )   http://www.outpostpm.org/index.php
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> 3. WL2K into and out of the county.  May use relay through home QTH (and a backup home QTH) ; HF, VHF. or UHF
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> High speed microwave Mesh or AREDN ( https://www.aredn.org/ ) might be a player, although it's hard to see how to cover the county without many sites and towers given the county's geography.  But perhaps still worth discussing.
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> Come with some ideas, diagrams, relevant articles, whatever.  Again, this is just a "thought experiment' but hoping it may generate some good ideas to support our AUXCOMM mission.
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> tnx
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> Shawn
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> N3AE
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> Calvert EC
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