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 ====== Surrey PREOC ======
-FIXME  --- //[[ve7hzf@rbox.me|Patrick, VE7HZF]] 2019/03/13 12:10//
+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: =====
+| {{:blog:2019-03-13:tower.png?540|}} |{{:blog:2019-03-13:hf.png?500|}}{{:blog:2019-03-13:truck.png?500|}} |
+  * 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 =====
+|{{:blog:2019-03-13:duplexers.png?280|}}|{{:blog:2019-03-13:radios.png?280|}}|{{:blog:2019-03-13:patchpanel.png?280|}}|
+  * 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 =====
+{{:blog:2019-03-13:op.png}}
+One of the operation's room.
+{{:blog:2019-03-13:radioroom.png}}
+The radio room is pretty limited in size since any work station can be outfitted with a radio terminal.