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Central Lane 9-1-1 Communication Center -Continued <br /> Located at the same site are the two 10 GHz microwave systems that allow dispatch access to the police <br /> and fire backbones at Coburg Ridge and Crestview. <br /> The radio shop is also responsible for checking and reporting problems to ALL communication circuits <br /> provided by US west. These number about 50 in total to all of the various receiver sites and from the <br /> backup center. <br /> Central Lane has a backup dispatch center (BUC) located at the city's Public Works facility on Roosevelt <br /> Blvd. The equipment at the BUC that the radio shop maintains consists of a 2 position Kustom Console <br /> for the fire dispatchers, and two Motorola Spectra Astro digital radios that have been converted for use as <br /> control stations. Other equipment located at the BUC includes a Motorola XTS3000 portable, a <br /> Tele-wave combiner system, and two Uni-page fire dispatch tone generators. <br /> Airport <br /> The radio shop has an extremely large responsibility in maintenance of the Airport radio system. There <br /> are some very unique systems that you will not likely fmd anyplace else. <br /> Airport's system consists of a Kenwood TKR-20 repeater with extensive external equipment attached to <br /> it. The external equipment consists of a Zetron telephone interconnect, a simplex telephone VOX adapter <br /> to activate the repeater when there is activity on the "tower line", a Plectron receiver and a tone remote <br /> adapter to allow Airport administration offices access to the repeater. <br /> Located at the airport administration offices are two remote controls in the offices, atwo-tone generator <br /> and a custom built activation device that monitors the "tower line". Upon any activity on the tower line <br /> the tone generator sends out tones over the repeater to alert fire and airport personnel that a possible <br /> emergency exists. The tower line audio is broadcast out over the repeater to all personnel to notify them <br /> <br /> - of the situation. <br /> Airport has about 45 VHF portable radios, mostly of Kenwood brand. Also they have about 15 air-band <br /> mobiles in their various ground vehicles. Tait and Bendix King make these. <br /> Also located at the airport is UHF paging system that is located at the terminal building. This gives <br /> personnel intrusion alarms at various gates and locations. This is a computerized system connected to a <br /> Motorola MSR2000. They use about 15 Motorola Advisor pagers. <br /> Over in Fire Station 12 located at on the airport grounds is a Federal receiver that monitors the main <br /> airport channel and alerts fire personnel of a situation. An amplifier that monitors the tower line is <br /> attached to station speakers. Though owned by the fire dept, there are two ARFF vehicles (Oshkosh) <br /> assigned to this station. Each vehicle has a Kenwood Fire radio, air-band radio, and a Setcom intercom <br /> system that is attached to both radios. <br /> i <br /> i <br /> i <br /> Page 11 of 12 <br /> <br />