[Lowfer] Yaesu FT-897

[Charlie , W5COV]

OOPS , should have been 1.610 MHz. The state has several of these on small 
trailers and we usually request at least one , as soon as we are deployed to 
an incident .

Really simple system that just takes few minutes to put into operation . I 
am waiting for them to declare one surplus . <grin>

We were staged 10 miles from the Greensburg , Kansas disaster and had no 
problem hearing the TIS for updates through the night .

The one that I maintain is run by a Hospital , in Wilson County , Kansas . 
It is a permanent installation and they received FEMA / Homeland Security 
grant money to purchase and install it . The antenna is mounted on a 30 foot 
utility pole and they buried 10 , 50 foot long radials . They normally run 
10 watts , but the output can be raised to 20 watts in the event of another 
disaster . They have a person that makes a CD at city hall and takes it out 
there as often as needed to change the community calendar .

This year we are going to work on making it fully remote from 3 different 
locations .

Charlie , W5COV