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BRAZOS H i1 . M COUNTY
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JAKE CANGELOSE JOHN W. HILL
County Director and Chairman Civil Defense & Emergency Planning Texas A&M University Director
FRED SANDLIN County Courthouse GEORGE 1. HUEBNER
Bryan Director Bryan, Texas 77801 College Station Director
22 June 76
TO: Mr. Jake Cangelose
FROM: John W. Gray
SUBJECT: CD support for acquisition tower sites for proposed six meter amateur
repeater.
REFERENCE: ARG letter from J. McCarty to J. Cangelose dated 17 June 76 and
conversations between J. Cangelose and J. Gray 18 June 76.
Per your request Jake I'm giving you my recommendations concerning J. McCarty's
letter to you.
The Amateur Radio Group (ARG) has purchased some very high quality equipment for
their proposed repeater. It includes the following:
1. A high power transmitter, giving long range communications (as much as 200
miles mobile to mobile) that is all solid state except for the final.
2. A late model solid state reciever.
3. Several base stations.
4. Several solid state mobiles.
5. Several solid state walkie talkies.
6. A 450 mhz control link, solid state.
Their investment is a sizable one. Their plan is to put up a high quality,
long range repeater, with auto patch for area wide amateur and RACES use. They are
seeking two tower sites (they must split the transmitter and reciever) as tall as
possible with emergency power available. The two sites they are requesting your
support for meet this criteria. Community TV's tower is the tallest in the area
and the utility tower is almost as tall. They both have emergency power. In
addition the solid state equipment they have lends itself to battery power thus
providing an additional back up power capability.
Another advantage this repeater has for RACES application is that it uses
different tower sites than the repeater RACES is presently using, thus giving us
multiple tower sites in the *vent a tornado or other disaster knocked one tower
down. Additionally, the choice of 6 meters provides a somewhat longer range
capability and it is on a seldom used frequency band which would less likely become
conjested in the event of a major disaster.
I think for all the above reasons it would be highly advantageous for
RACES to support the installation of this repeater system and thus I am urging
you to lend whatever support your office can in assisting the ARG in acquiring
these sites.
As my goal is to help provide you with as much effective auxiliary
communications as I can, I will no doubt in the future recommend your support
for additional systems I believe can provide CD with this effective commun-
ications.
Sincerely,
;00Gray
cc: ARG, J. McCarty
RACES, T. Comstock
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BRAZOS IH cn ;- COUNTY
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JAKE CANGLOSE OFFICE OF JAMES PRESSWOOD
COUNTY DIRECTOR AND CHAIRMAN TEXAS AeN UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR
E.E. BURNS CIVIL DEFENSE & EMERGENCY PLANNING GEORGE L. HUEBNER
COUNTY DEPUTY DIRECTOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE COLLEGE STATION DIRECTOR
J. LOUIS ODLE BRYAN,TEXAS 77801 NORTH BARDELL
BRYAN DIRECTOR COLLEGE STATION DEPUTY DIRECTOR
June 22, 1976
TO: Whom It May Concern:
In reference to recommendations concerning the six meter amateur
repeator station; I have had John Gray, Deputy County Communications
Officer, attach his recommendations.
I fully support his recommendations and feel that the program will
be of valuable assistance to the Civil Defense Program.
Respectfully,
G
a e Canglose
County Director and Chairman
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Amateur Radio Group
3909 Hilltop
June 17, 1976
Bryan, Texas 77801
Mr. Jake Cangelose
Brazos County Civil Defense
Bryan, Texas 77801
Dear Jake,
A.R.G., Amateur Radio Group, has gathered sufficient equipment to
put a six meter repeater on the air. I have talked to your Civil
Defence RACES communications people, and due to the increased
range of this repeater over that of existing local repeaters, they
think this repeater would be a needed addition to the Civil Defense
Communications Plan.
We have run into a problem acquiring needed tower space and need
your help in the form of a letter from you supporting our repeater,
this would be beneficial to our cause. Listed below are the names
of the companies the letters need to go to. When the letters are
completed, I would appreciate it if you would forward them to me
and will enclose them in our engineering proposals to these
companies.
Mr. Tom Talley Mr. Gordon Gregg
Old Ocean Fuel Co. Community Cablevision
P. 0. Box 970 3408 S. Texas Ave.
Ft. Worth, Texas Bryan, Texas.
We would appreciate any help you can give us.
Sincerely yours,
Jacky McCarty
A. R. G. Trustee