1. Emergency Communications Systems
Introduction

2. ECS Topics Preamble Mission Statement Five Year Master Plan
Six Components of the Communications System
Manpower
Digital Mode Software
Utility Programs
Intranet Applications on the Mesh
APRS
Locations
SF County EOC
TFD
SF City EOC
SF Municipal Airport
State Pen
FMAC
Winlink Registration Keys
DRATS
WIFI
Powerwerx DB-750X
Digital Modes for ICOM-7100
D-STAR Digital Voice Comms for ICOM-7100

3. Preamble
ECS Notebook is a comprehensive reference document for SFARES members, et. al.
Three concepts:
Graceful degradation of capabilities
Intensive training
Role of the Emergency Managers
Initial Baseline: All SFARES systems fully operational and all ..capabilities available
Goal: Always be able to communicate

4. SFARES Mission Statement
Augment and facilitate emergency communications and related services and activities for Santa Fe City and County Emergency Management based Upon:
Deep infrastructure
Operation at highest levels of communication
Allow for graceful degradation of services
Appropriate and intensive training
Cadre of experienced, qualified personnel
Well-structured equipment maintenance program

5. Five Year Master Plan Implemented in phased approach
Does not include existing infrastructure
Provide for graceful degradation of capabilities
Each site to have back-up battery and un-interruptible power supplies (UPS)
Always provide voice communications among all key sites with 100% reliability

6. Six Components of the Emergency Communications System
Central Sites
Remote Sites
SFARES Mesh
Repeaters
Rocky mountain Nodes
Computers at the Various Sites

7. Central Sites Santa Fe County EOC Food Depot Radio Room
Santa Fe City EOC
Santa Fe County EOC in Edgewood (EOC Alternate)
All configured identically in terms of: Radios, Computers, Capabilities
All have Voice and Digital Mode Capability
World-Wide HF
Regional and local VHF/UHF and Microwave
Send and receive normal and WinLink 2000
12Volt UPS and Facility-wide UPS.
Access to APRS and screen display to show location of Resources

8. Remote Sites St. Vincent Hospital and Santa Fe Municipal Airport
Will be supplied with identical VHF/UHF with both digital and Voice capabilities
State Penitentiary Radio Room
Configured identical to a Central Site
Fire Multi-Agency Center (FMAC)
Identical to Central Site except no HF capability

9. SFARES MESH
Strategically placed nodes operating in microwave frequencies providing intranet links
Mesh will provide:
links to the four remote sites
VOIP
Video
Internal website for accessing resources

10. Repeaters In emergency, SFARES will utilize:
the Tesuque linked repeater system for voice comms
W5SF D-STAR repeater on the Food Depot tower.
All central site HF radios will be D-STAR capable

11. Rocky Mountain Nodes Connectivity with Rocky Mountain Backbone
Nodes on Sandia Crest and Pajarito Mountain
Allows digital comms from Southern NM to Northern Colorado

12. Computers
Two Computers, WiFi, and large screen display per central site and State Pen
Utilize the HF/D-STAR radio and VHF/UHF radios.

13. Communications
Digital comms through the internet use normal services, D-RATS, and FTP Servers
All laptops have M/S Office 2007 Professional
Each laptop has unique GMAIL address that identifies laptop location
Browser is Google Chrome
Link to RF Finder
Laptops have access to common SFARES iCloud account that shows contacts, Calendar, files, and notes
Analog and Digital Voice will be available and will use HF, VHF, and UHF.

14. Manpower In emergency each central site will be manned as follows:
Two qualified operators (one for voice and one for digital
One watch supervisor
12 qualified participants per each operational period if all four central sites manned.
Two is considered the minimum
Training is required to ensure all are qualified.
Recommended to complete IS course 100,200,700,800

15. SFARES Emergency Communication System Notebook Table of Contents
Chapter I - Preamble Chapter II - Emergency Communication System SFARES Mission Statement 5-Year Master Plan ( ) Six (6) Components of the SFARES Emergency Communications System 1. Central Sites Remote Sites SFARES Mesh Repeaters Rocky Mountain Nodes Computers Chapter III - Communications Chapter IV - Manpower

16. EOC TOC Continued
Chapter V - Applications Digital mode communication software Utility Programs Intranet applications on the Mesh APRS Chapter VI - Equipment Santa Fe County EOC (DM65xn) (KG5HVE) Food Depot Radio Room (DM75ap) (W5SAF) SFARES Emergency Communication System Santa Fe City EOC (DM75aq) Santa Fe County EOC in Edgewood St Vincent Hospital Santa Fe Municipal Airport State Penitentiary Radio Room (DM65xn) Fire Multi-Agency Center (FMAC) WINLINK Registration Keys

17. EOC TOC Continued
Chapter VII - D-RATS - an emergency communications tool RATflector D-RATS SETUP and Configuration D-RATS usage MAP including Map Downloader D-RATS and ICOM-7100 D-Star low-speed data communications
Chapter VIII - WiFi
Annex A - Voice Communications for Powerwerx DB-750X Memory Channel Listings
Annex B – HF/VHF/UHF Digital Modes for ICOM HF - WinLink EXPRESS (Version ) 1 VHF - WinLink EXPRESS (Version ) SignaLink USB, UZ7HO