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The K7HIO team recently installed a home-built weather radio controller on the repeater. This causes NWS alerts and tests to come through the repeater's transmitter, allowing responders to monitor a single radio during the day and also get those alerts. Here's what it looks like from the receiver's perspective:

On May 17th, KK7DS presented a status update of the K7HIO station, including recently-added capabilities and hardware.  The slides included a lot of pictures of the station and the radio room, but many people at the meeting were unable to see the small screen at a distance.  It is available below for interested parties.

Please be advised that a deployment drill will be held as the first part of this month's K7HIO Responder meeting. In preparation please make sure of the following:

1.) If you have a pager make sure it is powered and set.
2.) Have dual band HT and portable 72 hour kit set for brief deployment.
3.) Have at your disposal a map or GPS, which can provide orientation for Washington County.
4.) Your Oregon Emergency Management (Yellow Card) is available to be displayed.

Details below:

K7HIO will be participating in the ACES ACT 2 exercise.  Details on the participation from Hillsboro, as well as other stations, is posted on the ACES site.

On June 3, 2010 the City of Hillsboro performed a full power-down test at the Ronler site.  This gave us an opportunity to see the automatic generator transfer switch in action, as well as test our own backup power capabilities.  The test was true to life, in that the facilities person turned off the main power at the disconnect switch, simulating an immediate total power loss.

Within seconds, we received notification of the power outage via pager:

Please visit the web site at least every 2-3 weeks. Things are updated and added all the time.

http://www.k7hio.net/

Our monthly meeting is the 4th Monday of each month at Ronler Fire Station and City of Hillsboro EOC. 6:00 PM on the 26th.

K7HIO participated in the ACES ACT 1 drill today.  The full set of pictures are available in the gallery.  We hit almost all of our objectives and learned a lot about operating at the new station. 

Hillsboro will be participating in the ACES ACT 1 drill.  More information on the overall drill is available on the ACES site.  See below for the complete Hillsboro plan.

Our goal is to demonstrate the use of the following technologies:

It's no secret that K7HIO has been ahead of the rest of the area in using low-speed D-STAR for quite some time now.  Since 2008, we have been transferring files and messages around the county using D-RATS with much success.

The hi-speed D-STAR has taken longer to get into place because of the cost of the equipment, lack of antennas, and short coax runs.  Six months ago (almost to the day), KK7DS put the county's hi-speed data repeater module up in our cabinet on top of the Synopsys building in Hillsboro.  Aside from a little bit of testing a few days later, it has been dormant...until now.