WCARES District 7 & Served Agency Interoperability ICS 217 Frequency lists 2015

Project Researched and Assembled by: Terry Jones, K5LGV Doug Dukes, KG5DEZ

Resources Providing Data, Input, Recommendations & Verification Many Thanks to all who provided frequencies and advice in their areas of responsibility. ARRL ARES District 7 Don Dudley, AC5YK, District Emergency Coordinator Rik Chapman, K5RIK County Emergency Coordinators that contributed Ken Malgren, K7MAL, Williamson County Mark Esslinger, W5MAE, Travis County Greg Golian, K5GZG, Hays/Caldwell Pat Patrick, KD5ZRH, Bastrop County Gil Jones, KA5GIL, Burnett County

Resources Providing Data, Input, Recommendations & Verification Emergency Management Mike Wright, KG5FDR, Williamson County EOC Scott Swearingin, Austin/Travis County EOC American Red Cross Kevin McCoy, KF5FUZ, CSTAR Region TX Austin Disaster Relief Network David Tobey, KF5ORB, ADRN Communications

What is the scope of these Frequency Lists? ARES District 7 9 most likely deployment counties for WCARES District 7 Plus select surrounding Counties WCARES Emergency Communications Plan Support to Served Agencies Williamson County Emergency Management Services Emergency Operations Center, Williamson County Serves approximately 27 agencies Red Cross, ADRN, TX & Federal Interoperability channels

Why a District wide ICS 217 and Interoperability configuration? Consistent load for deployment Be prepared, after alerted can be too late to program radios Easy for new Hams and veteran ARES members alike No previous District Wide consolidated list exists No previous Recommended Interoperability listing Relationship with WCEOC continues to develop WCEOC recommended Interoperability Frequencies

ARES District 7(+) ICS 217

ARES District 7(+) ICS 217 Counties Why these counties? Williamson, Travis, Blanco, Burnett/LLano, Bastrop, Hays/Caldwell, Lee, Bell, Milam Why these counties? Counties WCARES most likely to deploy and support Ken Malgren, Emergency Coordinator, Directed ADRN & WCARES simplex frequencies crossover List walkthrough of ICS 217 Programming Software RTS, Vendors specific (no narrow band) Chirp, KGUV commander (narrow band, 2.5khz step) Red Cross, out of band repeater caution!!!!!! ONLY ON APPROVAL

Recommended Load for Radio Handheld Master List Narrow Band/Restricted Use/ Discussed in later section

Interoperability Frequency Guide Why Used by served agency, and as resource Recommended by Mike Wright, WC Emergency Communications Recommended by Scott Swearengin Travis EOC Resources NIFOG AUXFOG TX Statewide Interoperability Channel Plan Gleaned down to most probable ARES use 100’s of frequencies not listed List Walk Through Cautions VTAC, UTAC, GMRS, NOAA, GMRS, LSAR, Red Cross, ADRN, MURS Repeater vs. Direct (Talk Around)

FCC Title 47 CFR Parts 97, 90, 95 FCC Part 97 Part 90 Amateur Radio Typically NO narrow band / narrow step Part 90 Land Mobile Radio Service - Narrow Band FM Equipment Can be used by Amateur Radio Narrow Band (12.5 Khz) Wide Band (25 Khz) Narrow tuning steps (down to 2.5khz) Examples, Wouxon, Baofeng, TYT, Powerwerx

FCC Title 47 CFR Parts 97, 90, 95 FCC Part 95 Special Radio Hardware Requirements GMRS 5 to 50 watts, 20khz FRS 500 milliwatts max, NFM, may be 11.5khz CERT use MURS 2 watts max, 11.5 Khz / 20Khz bandwidth???

Interoperability Frequency Guide These frequencies are out of band for Amateur licensees Public Domain lists & can be placed in Scanner anytime NEVER transmit without licensee authorization!!!! NEVER use your FCC call sign!!!! Can only transmit when authorized by proper authority When Deployed or in service with served agency

Who can Approve Use? Licensee of frequency, i.e. Red Cross, EOC Served Agency with License Incident Commander COML Red Cross

Approval for ARES Members Approval will come to ARES members thru EC, DEC, SEC when authorized by Command Structure Approval has a time frame Only while approved incident is active, and you are activated

Where to get current frequency lists WC-ARES.org Files to Download section Check revision at least monthly RSS – may be a possibility in future - ??? Updates typically announced on WCARES Yahoo group email

Enjoy! QUESTIONS? NIFOG http://www.publicsafetytools.info/ AUXFOG http://www.arrlstx.org/ TX Statewide Interoperability Channel Plan http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/LawEnforcementSupport/communications/interop /documents/tsicpMOU.pdf WCARES Emergency Communications Plan http:www.wc-ares.org Enjoy!