Civil Air Patrol

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Civil Air Patrol
Communications
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Communications Update

• Colonel Bryon Brammer
• Major Mike Heil
• Major Gary Belda

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Whats new in Comm?
Narrowband
FAA Requirements
2008

• CHANGE!

NTIA Compliance
?!
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The 2008 Challenge!
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NARROWBAND FM

• DoD Implementation
• 1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2008

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Equipment Migration Milestones
Legal Mandate Policy necessary to comply with the
law Sunset Dates Staged, incremental
approach Membership Impact!
Non Wideband HF Compliant Equipment Cant be
use after 12/31/2001
Wideband FM
HF
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New Equipment
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New Equipment

• New HF Radios
• New Aircraft FM
• On Hold
• New Repeaters
• New Tait T2020 Mobiles
• Not APCO 25 Compliant

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Motorola Quantar
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Motorola Micom-2 HF-SSB
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Tait T202025 watt. 99 channel alpha numeric
display.
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E. F. Johnson STEALTH
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N.A.T. NPX-138-60
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PMA-7000-CAP
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Budget
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Budget Background

• NEC First Briefed, November 94
• First POM Attempt, November 95
• Surveys, Point Papers, Briefings, etc
• Communications Equipment Rehab Project
• National Technology Center
• Communications Strategic Plan
• AF POM Process
• Requirement Validation
• Funding Schedule

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Budget

• NONE!
• Maybe?
• Possible?

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Budget Approval Process

• POM 2004
• CAP
• CAP-USAF
• AIR UNIVERSITY
• AETC
• AUXILIARY BOARD
• BOARD
• JOINT CHIEFS

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Repeaters
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Repeater Status

• New Repeaters Mt. Tam (Antenna)
• TenHi Mountain Mt. St. Helena (Antenna)
• Edwards AFB Oat Mt. (New Site)
• Lost Repeaters Oakhurst (Mstr II)
• Mt. St. Helena
• Upgraded Repeaters
• Santiago Peak (Quantar)
• Mt. Diablo (Quantar)
• Breckenridge (Antenna)
• Mt. Diablo (Antennas)

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Standards
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NEW - STANDARDIZATION

• POWER CONNECTORS
• Anderson PP-30 / PP-75 Connector Sets
• Cost _at_ 1.00 / Set
• Can be used coupled or uncoupled
• Available 30A and 75 A
• Local Distributor - PowerWerx.com

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Comm Operations
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Comm Operations

• Exercises?

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Training
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Training

• A-CUT
• Power Point

• IImorrow GPS
• Power Point (Still Pending)
• Field Exercises

• B-CUT
• Power Point

• NAT Radio
• Power Point

• PS Engineering
• Power Point

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Administration
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Administration

• License Renewals
• _at_ 400 of 900
• Cant print in WMU

• ROA Cards
• Current but not in WMU

• Cut Off
• 1 Oct 2000

• CAPFLIGHT CALLSIGNS
• Member Owned
• CAWG Form 100 RLA

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Administration

• Communications Equipment Management (CEMS)
• Microsoft Access Readable Database
• Currently only available to the Wing/DC
• Will be available to the Group/DC
• Available as read only for Group, Squadron CCs,
  DCs

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Administration

• CEMS Format

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Digital Pagers
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ARCH Communications

• Contact Person
• Mike Murphy
• 1-800-833-2337
• Civil Air Patrol Master Account

• Billing
• Alpha/Numeric Pager
• 7.95 / Month
• Replacement Insurance
• 1.00 / Month
• Misc. Taxes

• Internet Paging
• Pager No._at_ Archwireless.net
• CAP REDCAP LIST

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The President can make you a general, but only
communications can make you a commander
General Curtis E. LeMay
Questions? Comments?
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Civil Air Patrol
Communications