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====== Surrey PREOC ======

Last Friday (March 8), Bob (VE7XNC), Jim (VA7JIR), Patrick (VE7HZF) and Sieg (VA7LEH) travelled to Surrey to visit our Provincial Regional Emergency Operations Centre (PREOC) located on [[https://osm.org/go/WJHdKxsZ--?layers=C |Green Timbers Road]].  Their installation was very impressive:

===== Outside: =====

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  * The main tower has most of the VHF/UHF antennas as well as a Barker Williamson HF Terminated Folded Dipole multi-band wire antenna.
  * The telephone pole has an Optibeam yagi antennas for 20m and 40m as well as a dipole (at 90° angle) for 80m.
  * The Communications truck is the only one of its kind in Canada and was developed by SFU.

===== Server Room =====

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  * The radios (in the middle) all connect to duplexers (on the left) to share the limited number of antennas on the towers.
  * From there, they can be patched to any ethernet jack in any of the buildings so that anyone anywhere can quickly be setup with a radio station.


===== Work Space =====

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One of the operation's room.

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The radio room is pretty limited in size since any work station can be outfitted with a radio terminal.