This is one of the ARC (American Red Cross) Communications Response Vehicles. The mast is 60' and can support an array of antenna's kept onboard and has an assortment of radios at it's disposal including:

  • HF (amateur, marine and commercial)
  • UHF (Commercial and amateur)
  • VHF (Amateur and commercial)
  • VHF-LO (AKA Red Cross Freq's 47.42)
  • 440 (Commercial UHF repeater system)
  • Satellite phone system and link to national HQ (100 phone lines)
  • WAN linked to NHQ at 2 GBPS upload and 2.8 down (can be adjusted with a simple phone call)
  • Multiple cell phone lines
  • AMSAT and AMRSAT systems A, B and C as well as a NASA AMSAT unit and FEMA AMSAT link.

    • They also have APRS on all vehicles and can track movements to within 3 feet. Headquarters also has the ability to remotely shut off the radios or the entire vehicle.

    VHF - Low Band Operations
    Description Frequency
    CH 1 RED - Primary (Nationwide) 47.4200
    CH 2 BLACK - Secondary 47.5000
    CH 3 TAN - Alternate 47.4600
    CH 4 YELLOW - Backup 47.6600
    CH 5 ORANGE - Tactical 1 47.5400
    CH 6 BLUE - Tactical 2 47.6200
    CH 7 PURPLE - Tactical 3 47.5800
    43.0000

    VHF - High Band Operations
    Description Frequency
    CH 1 PRIMARY 155.1600
    CH 2 SECONDARY 155.2200
    CH 3 ALTERNATE 155.2800
    CH 4 BACKUP 155.3400
    CH 5 TACTICAL 155.4000
    155.2350
    154.5150
    154.5700
    154.6000
    154.6250

    UHF - Band Operations
    Description Frequency Tone
    Orange County (Santiago) 462.5750 192.8
    Los Angeles (Mt. Lukens) 462.6750 192.8
    Los Angeles (Oat Mt) 463.6750 192.8
    Los Angeles (Palos Verdes) 463.5000 192.8
    San Gabriel Valley (Johnstone) 463.9750  97.4
    San Gabriel Valley Tac 1 464.5000  97.4
    San Gabriel Valley Tac 2 464.5500  97.4
    San Gabriel Valley Tac 3 463.3375  97.4
    San Gabriel Valley Tac 4 463.4125  97.4
    San Gabriel Valley Tac 5 463.6375  97.4
    Glendale (Mt Thom) 461.2500 162.2
    CHANNEL 1 463.4750
    CHANNEL 2 464.5500
    CHANNEL 3 462.6750
    CHANNEL 4 463.0125
    CHANNEL 5 463.5000
    CHANNEL 6 463.1125
    CHANNEL 7 463.1875
    461.7875
    461.1875
    462.3000
    463.0875
    463.3500
    463.4875
    464.0625
    464.7500

    Orange County Chapter
    Description Frequency Tone
    Ops 1 Repeater 462.9875 71.9
    Ops 2 Simplex 462.9875 71.9
    Ops 3 Repeater 463.0875 71.9
    Ops 4 Simplex 463.0875 71.9
    Ops 5 Repeater 463.1625 71.9
    Ops 6 Simplex 463.1625 71.9
    Ops 7 Repeater 463.0125 71.9
    Ops 8 Simplex 463.0125 71.9
    GMRS 1 Repeater 462.6750 67.0
    GMRS 2 Repeater 462.6750 127.3
    REACT 1 Repeater 462.6750 141.3
    REACT 2 Simplex 462.6750 67.0
    Business 1 Repeater 461.0625 71.9
    Chapter Simplex 463.1375 71.9
    Field Simplex 463.1875 71.9
    Low Band 1 47.4200  
    Low Band 2 47.4600  
    Low Band 3 47.5000  
    Low Band 4 47.6600  
    Low Band 5 46.5600