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Fire Department Continued <br /> The radio shop maintains approximately 170 portables for the Fire Dept. These include Kenwood, <br /> Motorola MT1000, Motorola Visar, and Yaesu portable radios and accessories. The accessories include <br /> speaker/microphones, SCBA mask hookups, and charging systems. <br /> Fire has approximately 190 VHF Kenwood mobiles in various apparatus such as fire engines, medics, and <br /> command vehicles. Attached to most of these radios are David/Clark intercom systems allowing <br /> personnel to communicate in noisy environments. In each of these vehicles also are Mabile Data Terminal <br /> systems which the radio shop repairs. These consist of a computer, modem and high power radio. <br /> Each vehicle is equipped with an Opticom traffic signal switching system that the radio shop installs and <br /> maintains. Sirens are also installed on all fire dept vehicles. These are mostly Code 3 brand, but there are <br /> some Unitrols installed in command trucks. <br /> Miscellaneous items that the shop is responsible for include fire truck boom intercoms, pagers (NEC, <br /> Motorola etc) and an occasional cell phone problem. <br /> Fire has approximately 30 Federal alert receivers located in 10 fire stations and two chief quarters. The <br /> receivers are used in pairs to alert fire personnel at the fire stations to incoming dispatches. Each receiver <br /> has a battery backup system and an amplifier that attaches to speakers located in different locations in the <br /> stations. Each station has an external antenna for the fire receivers. Also each station has a third amplifier <br /> that is used for an internal station intercom system. The radio shop maintains all of this equipment. <br /> NOTE: The radio shop is also responsible for maintenance of the Springfield Fire Departments trucks, <br /> medics and command vehicles. Most of the repairs for SPFD consist of mobile and intercom related <br /> problems. They have approximately 20 mobile units and about 10 Plectron receivers at 4 stations. <br /> Central Lane 9-1-1 Communication Center <br /> The Central Lane 911 dispatch center is perhaps one of the largest users of the radio shops services. <br /> Since they provide the radio dispatch point for 75 percent of Lane County fire departments and Eugene <br /> Police Department 24 hours a day, problems occur frequently. <br /> The chief equipment is a new (as of this writing) Motorola Centracom Gold Plus dispatch console system. <br /> The system provides the hub for ALL radio communications in and out of the center located at 2nd and <br /> Chambers. It consists of 10 radio dispatch positions that are using Hewlett-Packard 600Mhz computers. <br /> These run Windows NT through a LAN environment to communicate with the Central Electronics Bank <br /> (CEB). The CEB is the physical hub of the system; it provides the means for dispatchers to access all of <br /> the radio backbones located at the two main sites. The CEB contains the main electronics for the digital <br /> radio system that police use. External to the CEB but in the same building are six Digital Interface Units <br /> (DIU's) that encode and decode police digital radio traffic. Also. there are six Astro-Tac voting <br /> comparators that select which of the receivers sites has the best signal to pass on to the repeaters. <br /> Other equipment located at the center include a Racal logging recorder, which the radio shop is <br /> responsible for adding and maintaining external circuits to, the Pronet security system which has 10 <br /> remote sites located at various locations within the cities of Eugene and Springfield, and a UHF base <br /> <br /> :station which is used for communicating with Lane County Sheriff. <br /> i <br /> Page 10 of 12 <br /> _ <br /> <br />