The next series of pages document a project of Charlie Morris, Henry Lines, Perry Hopkins, Vivian Hagood, Ed Clulow, and Floyd - K7POS to outfit a recently acquired S250 communications shelter for emergency communications work:

Quoting Charlie Morris:

"Here is the crew minus me. Left to right Henry Lines / KH6JJS, (red wool coat), Perry Hopkins / KD7EYM, Dark blue vest with ARES patches.
(He is Emergency MGR, for City of Portland - Water Bureau, and all around organizer
for emergency matters),

Vivian Hagood, N7VH, operator ARES, Ed Clulow, N7TL, Yellow coat, Team Captain for this drill, provided packet setup for the shelter. Floyd / K7POS, ARES operator. We all have been going to evening meetings and training sessions lately under the guidance of Perry Hopkins.

Here is the crew with Myself: L - R: Henry/KH6JJS, Perry / KD7EYM, Floyd
/ K7POS, Vivian / N7VH, Chuck / W7HDF, and of course the shelter masts
and wires.

Here is the setup inside for the emergency drill:

VHF packet at lower left, laptop just out of view - left! two power supplies stacked on lower shelf under the shelf that has the VHF voice at center of this photo, speaker is to the left of the ICOM VHF rig.

The SGC230 autocoupler is at an angle behind the ICOM VHF, the coupler is black. The ICOM 756 HF rig is in upper right in this view. Power strips and cords and clutter are obvious. As flexible as this thing is right now and still developing ideas I haven't decided where to nail things down yet. I'm thinking of brackets of some type in the future.


I like to pack the radios in something soft when we are on the road, unpack
them for use and repack for travel.

Here is shot of the shelter with a couple of the tripods in view, the
closest one supported one of the VHF antennas, the mast farther back acted as a support for the end of the longwire antenna. Floyd/K7POS at the shelter door, Henry/KH6JJS holding the chair down, extra mast kits and other accessories are on the
ground nearby.

The generator is not in view, it is sitting up to the right of the suburban, it is a 5KW Honda on wheels, I can store the generator for travel at the back of the trailer. There is just enough room to nest the generator at the back so it can't fly around. All I have to do is lower the tailgate and roll the generator

Here is a photo of the shelter deployed at the emergency exercise:

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