Sun Coast Amateur <br>Radio Club Society - blog:2019-03-13https://scarcs.ca/2026-05-05T03:53:07+00:00FeedCreator 1.8surrey_preoc2020-08-07T20:03:27+00:002020-08-07T20:03:27+00:002020-08-07T20:03:27+00:00https://scarcs.ca/blog/2019-03-13/surrey_preocAnonymous
<h1 class="sectionedit1" id="surrey_preoc">Surrey PREOC</h1>
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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 <a href="https://osm.org/go/WJHdKxsZ--?layers=C" class="urlextern" title="https://osm.org/go/WJHdKxsZ--?layers=C" rel="ugc nofollow">Green Timbers Road</a>. Their installation was very impressive:
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The main tower has most of the <abbr title="Very High Frequency">VHF</abbr>/<abbr title="Ultra High Frequency">UHF</abbr> antennas as well as a Barker Williamson <abbr title="High Frequency">HF</abbr> Terminated Folded Dipole multi-band wire antenna.
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The telephone pole has an Optibeam yagi antennas for 20m and 40m as well as a dipole (at 90° angle) for 80m.
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The Communications truck is the only one of its kind in Canada and was developed by SFU.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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