Texas
"The Lone Star State"
The
It
has been deployed to several events. The major events were:
Costal
Plains Floods – November 2004
Hurricane
Katrina –
Hurricane
Rita –
The
Texas Baptist Men Disaster Response Communication Team has also supported the
2005
K5STB
has handled around 800 VHF/UHF messages, 200 HF messages and 500 emails during
disaster deployments. The flexibility of the unit has provided information
for food distribution, operational supplies, medical supplies, as well as
coordinated Angel Flight landing
instructions. Once the team was informed of the inbound flight to
The
radio room is equipped with 2 HF radios and 2 dual band (2M and 70cm) radios.
One of the dual band radios is capable of cross band repeat operation. One
of the HF radios has an automatic tuner attached.
Typical
radio operation is done with one dual band antenna at 35 ft and Inverted V on
the same mast. A second 15-20 ft mast holds another dual band antenna.
The antenna tuner generally feeds an Inverted L antenna on 40M or 75M or
vertical on 20M.
The
operations area has three small foot print computers with recently upgraded wall
mounted flat panels. A printer and scanner are connected to the main
computer and shared over the workgroup. We have satellite Internet
capability that feeds a local area network that can be extended by WiFi.
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Note the Starband dish mounted to the front of the trailer
Thanks to Walt DuBose K5YFW and Ken Mahnke WB9STU for the information from the Lone Star State.