[FARC] FARC Tour of Satalite Communications Facility

Justin Brock justin.m.brock at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 18:03:23 EST 2012 

This is Staff Sergeant Justin Brock, K2ZBM. I am a Senior Wideband Satellite Controller at the Wideband Satellite Operations Center at Fort Detrick and arranged for the tour for the Frederick ARC. 

First, directions to get there. To get to the WSOC after passing through the Old Farm Gate to Fort Detrick take a right onto Doughten Drive. Take Doughten down to the motor pool (on the right) and take a left onto Porter Street. You'll take Porter past the gas station and fire station, through the light, past the commissary, barracks, and the health clinic/VA clinic. About a mile down Porter you'll come to the big satellite dish antennas. Our facility is the first building on the right inside the SATCOM compound. You can park in the parking lots on either side of the street. You can download a community map of Fort Detrick from http://www.detrick.army.mil/usag/communityMap.pdf 

Please give yourself enough time to get through the checkpoint at the Old Farm Gate and reach the facility so we can begin at 1800. The security personnel at the gate will ask to see photo ID's for every passenger and will perform a search of your vehicles for obvious threats (weapons, explosives, etc).

 I'll be waiting near the turnstile into the compound for everyone and can be reached at 917-620-0061 or on the 147.060 mhz repeater to talk anyone in if they get turned around somewhere. 

As for restricting the tour to FARC members in good standing, you have to realize that this is a secure military satellite control facility. CPT Anderson, my commanding officer, is supportive of the local community and has agreed to host this tour. One of the controls in place for security for the tour is that you must be a member of the Frederick ARC. All members that are interested in attending must also submit their full name, SSN, and country of citizenship for my security manager. The information provided is used solely for the Visitor Access Request and to run a search in JPAS, a DOD system that is for security clearance records. Jim Ridgley, N3HTA, has been compiling the list for access. Please submit your info to him by next Monday, November 12th so I can relay it to my security manager, SFC Kimberlin, on Tuesday. 

I have planned for an unclassified mission briefing followed by a tour of the facility. If a few minutes need to be set aside for club business, we can do that in the conference room before the briefing or after the tour. 

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. I'll help in any way that I can.


-Justin Brock
K2ZBM

 	The box, with its implications of rigidity and squareness symbolizes unimaginitive thinking and painful frustration… 
	…sometimes we just have to step back and see if the solutions to our problems lies outside the box.
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From: Popowsky Louis 
Sent: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 01:02 PM
To: Frederick, Maryland ARC <farc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [FARC] FARC Tour of Satalite Communications Facility

>Hi Jim,
>This answer to Jim is a bit vague.  I believe you should meet before 6 PM so that you can be at the building by 6 and ready to start the tour. Remember that the cars will have to be inspected at the gate and people's IDs will have to be checked.
>
>
>We also need directions on getting to the building after we get into Detrick.
>Lou
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>________________________________
> From: "N3HTA at aol.com" <N3HTA at aol.com>
>To: farc at mailman.qth.net 
>Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 11:01 AM
>Subject: Re: [FARC] FARC Tour of Satalite Communications Facility
> 
>Hi Professor:  The tour will be at 6 PM on the regular  club meeting night 
>(Nov 19).  I plan to meet in the parking lot of the PNC  opposite Detrick's 
>Old Farm Gate on Rosemont Ave.  If you want to attend  please call me with 
>your full name, social security number and country of  citizenship.  This is 
>needed of the security at Detrick.   thank    Jim Ridgley
>
>
>In a message dated 11/3/2012 8:31:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>devilbiss at hood.edu writes:
>
>Jim,what  time and where would you be meeting? I might be able to cut my 
>class short  that day. Jim
>
>James Devilbiss
>Mathematics Department
>H  259
>Statistics
>Hood College
>Frederick
>Maryland
>21702
>
>On  Nov 3, 2012, at 7:40 PM, "N3HTA at aol.com" <N3HTA at aol.com>  wrote:
>
>> All FARC members:  An invitation was given at  the  last FARC meeting to 
>> anyone interested in touring the  satellite communications  facility at 
>Ft 
>> Detrick.  SSG  Justin Brock (K2ZBM), stationed at the  facility, will 
>provide the  
>> authorities the identification data to  allow the facility to do  a 
>> background  check needed to provide  access.  All  who want to attend 
>need to contact 
>> me with full name, social   security number and country of citizenship.  
>I 
>> will collect the  information  and provide it to Justin.  I can accept 
>email or  
>> if you are uncomfortable  with putting such sensitive  information in 
>email 
>> format, call me.  My home  number is  301-662-6557.  I recommend you 
>provide 
>> the information ASAP so  I  can get it to Justin. This tour will be our 
>> November meeting,  unless there is  some extremely pressing issue that we 
>must 
>>  discuss.
>> 
>> 73   Jim Ridgley     N3HTA
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