[TNham] amateur radios in hospitals

[Jimmy Floyd]

In fact many hospitals across the state of Tn. have amateur radio
equipment installed that was purchased with this money. The HRSA grants
are tied into the Dept. of Health.

Many hospitals in Tn. installed more than one radio as it was left up to
the local amateur radio groups and the hospitals as to what would best
assist them.
Here in Coffee Co. we have three hospitals. each one of them has two
VHF/UHF radios ---- one for voice and one for packet. They purchased
Kantronics KPC-3+ tncs' as well as all of the antennas and feedline. One
of our hospitals even purchased a new 40 ft. tower to use for the amateur
antennas.
The Franklin Co. hospital has a system installed and it is running APRS as
well as voice .

Hope this helps...

Jimmy Floyd
NQ4U
Tn. SEC



bfarnham wrote:
> Is that Tazewell? I just talked to the chaplain/ham up there who tested
> that
> radio out.
>
> The grants actually were from HRSA, which is tied to DHS but it isn't
> direct
> DHS money from Washington per se. Many hospitals in East TN already have
> the
> radios installed and have had numerous nets to test the systems out.
> METERS is
> coordinating many in Knoxville area. We have one in Roane County's
> hopsital.
> ALso where I work at UT Hospital. It's pretty widespread by now.
>
> HRSA money is drying up, so if the hospital hasn't yet plugged into that
> source it is nearly too late, if not already too late. They got a D700 AND
> a
> 706? The person I talked to was on a 706. Didn't mention the D700. If they
> got
> both, they got funding from another source as wel, as HRSA wouldn't give
> grant
> to pay for 2 radios to be put in as base stations, even if one was only
> VHF or
> VHF/UHF.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> 73,
> BIll Farnham
> KI4FZT
> EC Roane County
>
>>===== Original Message From ed yeary <w4tey at bellsouth.net> =====
>>Does anyone know about hospitals in Tenn. getting amateur radio stations
> through Homeland Security? Claiborne Co. just got an IC-706 MKIIG and a
> Kenwood D700.
>>Ed Yeary W4TEY
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