This shot does not really capture the roof of the vehicle very well, but there are over a dozen antenna's mounted to the roof of the vehicle. Some of which our analysis of the vehicle found to be defective and were repaired when possible.
Through Amateur Radio, the members of OMARC are always in the spot light by providing the commmunity with assistance through the power of amateur radio. Be it in the support role of communications at Public Events, VE Testing at Fort Monmouth, Donations to various charities, we at OMARC support the community in whihc we live.
In our continuing effort to provide community service the OMARC Technical Committee members recently volunteered their time and expertise to assist the Howell Office of Emergency Management shake out the bugs in their new state of the art OEM Communications Vehicle. All amateurs are invited to join the Howell OEM, for further information contact Joe, N2YMO.
The OMARC Technical Committee members assisted the Howell OEM by performing a walkthrough of the new Howell OEM communications vehicle. The installed Yaesu FT-5100 was not operating properly, neither were some of the other equipments. By the time the technical committee members, N2CKH, N2YMO and W2UG were finished, the FT-5100 was working great; as was all but two completely dead commercial radios.
This shot does not really capture the roof of the vehicle very well, but there are over a dozen antenna's mounted to the roof of the vehicle. Some of which our analysis of the vehicle found to be defective and were repaired when possible.
If you see this in your rear view mirror, get out of the way.
The rear of the beast, seen to the drivers side, is the extensible yellow pole on which mounts the anemometer of the Peet Bros. Ultimeter 500 weather station for wind speed and direction during severe weather conditions.
El Presidente, Joe, N2YMO on the outside looking in, the view behind Joe is the street in front of N2CKH's QTH leading all the way out to route 9, a nice secluded area for testing the siren and lights, hi hi
The view of the inside command area from looking inside standing at the rear of the vehicle.
The Howell Office of Emergency Management seal.
The radios use for tactical communications, a mix of Motorola, Macom, Relm, Regency and Yaesu, plus an old GE CB radio.
Another shot of the radios, this one also shows the Bearcat scanner. As can be seen, the microphones need remounting, the current configuration allows for the possibility of hanging one on the hook and keying its neighbor.
The charing HT's and printers as well as other pheripherals are nicely enclosed and kept out of the way in a cabinet.
The dash from the driver point of view.
Another shot of the dash of the OEM vehicle.
The siren, the thing that dog's hate and kids love, my neighbors did not complain during the initial testing of the unit... hi hi
For any of you that have ever driven with Joe, all that can be said of the thought of him driving this vehicle is "Watch out and get off the roads".
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