1. WCARES District 7 & Served Agency Interoperability ICS 217 Frequency lists 2015

2. Project Researched and Assembled by:
Terry Jones, K5LGV
Doug Dukes, KG5DEZ

3. Resources Providing Data, Input, Recommendations & Verification
Many Thanks to all who provided frequencies and advice in their areas of responsibility.
ARRL ARES District 7
Don Dudley, AC5YK, District Emergency Coordinator
Rik Chapman, K5RIK
County Emergency Coordinators that contributed
Ken Malgren, K7MAL, Williamson County
Mark Esslinger, W5MAE, Travis County
Greg Golian, K5GZG, Hays/Caldwell
Pat Patrick, KD5ZRH, Bastrop County
Gil Jones, KA5GIL, Burnett County

4. Resources Providing Data, Input, Recommendations & Verification
Emergency Management
Mike Wright, KG5FDR, Williamson County EOC
Scott Swearingin, Austin/Travis County EOC
American Red Cross
Kevin McCoy, KF5FUZ, CSTAR Region TX
Austin Disaster Relief Network
David Tobey, KF5ORB, ADRN Communications

5. What is the scope of these Frequency Lists?
ARES District 7
9 most likely deployment counties for WCARES
District 7 Plus select surrounding Counties
WCARES Emergency Communications Plan
Support to Served Agencies
Williamson County Emergency Management Services
Emergency Operations Center, Williamson County
Serves approximately 27 agencies
Red Cross, ADRN, TX & Federal Interoperability channels

6. Why a District wide ICS 217 and Interoperability configuration?
Consistent load for deployment
Be prepared, after alerted can be too late to program radios
Easy for new Hams and veteran ARES members alike
No previous District Wide consolidated list exists
No previous Recommended Interoperability listing
Relationship with WCEOC continues to develop
WCEOC recommended Interoperability Frequencies

7. ARES District 7(+) ICS 217

8. ARES District 7(+) ICS 217 Counties Why these counties?
Williamson, Travis, Blanco, Burnett/LLano, Bastrop, Hays/Caldwell, Lee, Bell, Milam
Why these counties?
Counties WCARES most likely to deploy and support
Ken Malgren, Emergency Coordinator, Directed
ADRN & WCARES simplex frequencies crossover
List walkthrough of ICS 217
Programming Software
RTS, Vendors specific (no narrow band)
Chirp, KGUV commander (narrow band, 2.5khz step)
Red Cross, out of band repeater caution!!!!!! ONLY ON APPROVAL

9. Recommended Load for Radio
Handheld
Master List
Narrow Band/Restricted Use/ Discussed in later section

10. Interoperability Frequency Guide
Why
Used by served agency, and as resource
Recommended by Mike Wright, WC Emergency Communications
Recommended by Scott Swearengin Travis EOC
Resources
NIFOG
AUXFOG
TX Statewide Interoperability Channel Plan
Gleaned down to most probable ARES use
100’s of frequencies not listed
List Walk Through
Cautions
VTAC, UTAC, GMRS, NOAA, GMRS, LSAR, Red Cross, ADRN, MURS
Repeater vs. Direct (Talk Around)

11. FCC Title 47 CFR Parts 97, 90, 95 FCC Part 97 Part 90 Amateur Radio
Typically NO narrow band / narrow step
Part 90
Land Mobile Radio Service - Narrow Band FM
Equipment Can be used by Amateur Radio
Narrow Band (12.5 Khz) Wide Band (25 Khz)
Narrow tuning steps (down to 2.5khz)
Examples, Wouxon, Baofeng, TYT, Powerwerx

12. FCC Title 47 CFR Parts 97, 90, 95 FCC Part 95
Special Radio Hardware Requirements
GMRS
5 to 50 watts, 20khz
FRS
500 milliwatts max, NFM, may be 11.5khz
CERT use
MURS
2 watts max, 11.5 Khz / 20Khz bandwidth???

13. Interoperability Frequency Guide
These frequencies are out of band for Amateur licensees
Public Domain lists & can be placed in Scanner anytime
NEVER transmit without licensee authorization!!!!
NEVER use your FCC call sign!!!!
Can only transmit when authorized by proper authority
When Deployed or in service with served agency

14. Who can Approve Use? Licensee of frequency, i.e. Red Cross, EOC
Served Agency with License
Incident Commander
COML
Red Cross

15. Approval for ARES Members
Approval will come to ARES members thru EC, DEC, SEC
when authorized by Command Structure
Approval has a time frame
Only while approved incident is active, and you are activated

16. Where to get current frequency lists
WC-ARES.org
Files to Download section
Check revision at least monthly
RSS – may be a possibility in future - ???
Updates typically announced on WCARES Yahoo group

17. Enjoy! QUESTIONS? NIFOG http://www.publicsafetytools.info/
AUXFOG
TX Statewide Interoperability Channel Plan
/documents/tsicpMOU.pdf
WCARES Emergency Communications Plan
Enjoy!