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Milpitas ARES®/RACES
Main EOC Setup
Get the Cabinet Key from the Dispatch Supervisors Office opposite the RACES Station (If the Office is locked Enter via Dispatch and QUIETLY get the key inside the sliding doors on the South Wall Bulletin Board)
Open the Cabinet and setup the EOC-EOC Radio located in the far LEFT bottom cabinet.
Open the Right side Cabinet and get the RACES radios out on the table. Leave the Power Supplies in the Cabinet. See diagram for location layout below.
Hook up power supplies to the three radios
Set up the RACES Laptop and plug in the network cable and hook up packet cables. The Packet Station TM-D700 has its own antenna plug.
The Voice Stations include the Alinco DR-235 and TH-D700 which share one antenna. They must be connected to the antenna via the duplexer/triplexer seen below.
The Antenna connections are made at the wall near the floor to the LEFT of the RACES Station. Ethernet connectors are here too but a cable should be on the RACES Station near the phone.
The Connectors are labeled. RACES antennas are on the LEFT. EOC-EOC Radio antenna is on the RIGHT. One RACES antenna is for PACKET the other is for the two Voice Station Radios via the triplexer
Last Updated: February 12, 2009