| ARES - Linn County, Iowa |
Updated January 15, 2009
This document proposes a plan for improvements of the CVARC sponsored Amateur Radio station at the Linn County Emergency Operations Center. This is only a collection of ideas for planning purposes, and does not imply a commitment by CVARC to proceed with these improvements. The status of any effort is indicated.
| Purchase and install individual speaker for the radios. |
| Convert the ATV radar to an RF channel that can be displayed on the EOC monitors. |
| Install an RS-232 switch and cables between the computer and the 3 radios and packet TNC. |
| Purchase and install the following software: D700 program (Link700), TS-2000 program, Echolink, PSK31, Packet terminal program (TBD). |
| Interface the computer audio to the HF radio to support Echolink, PSK31 and ??. |
| Rebuild the 80/40 dipole to resonate in the upper SSB voice band (near 3970-3990 and 7250). |
| Reconnect the HF Phone Patch - Needs an interface to EOC phone system. |
| Upgrade the packet station to 9600 baud. This will require an add-on board to the existing TNC, a crystal controlled UHF radio on 441.100/446.100 and a UHF or shared VHF/UHF antenna. |
| Support a Voice Repeater linked to the state-wide linked repeater network. This system is still under development. The location of such a repeater is TBD. Locating a repeater downtown would assist in event communications, but may not offer the coverage desired for a repeater linked to the state-wide fiber-optic network. |