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Each Portland Fire & Rescue fire station has an "orange go-kit:" a 55-watt Icom IC-2100H radio and a roof-mounted antenna.
NET volunteers are permitted to use this equipment if they have a valid FCC amateur radio license. The kit CANNOT leave the fire station, and so cannot be checked out. However, a volunteer can visit a fire station and use the radio there. To schedule a time to do this, please contact the NET Coordinator.
This excellent 17 minute video explains the use of the VHF radio in the Fire Station Radio Go Kits.
Orange go-kits contain the following equipment:
- VHF radio (Icom IC-2100H/IC-2200H)
- Handheld UHF BEECN radio (in most, but not all, orange kits)
- Microphone
- J-pole roll-up VHF antenna
- Magnetic mount whip antenna
- AC power supply (stron SS-25M)
- AC ground adapter plug
- BNC-to-SO-239 adapter (for J-pole roll-up antenna)
- 20 amp fuse (for radio power cables)
- Extension cord, 50 feet (quantity 2)
- Coaxial cable, 25 feet
- Coaxial cable, 100 feet
- SO-239 female-to-female barrel adapter (for combining coaxial cables)
- AC power cable (black)
- DC power cable (links power supply to radio)
- Car battery power cable (links power supply to radio)
- Cigarette lighter adapter (to install radio into a car)
- Zippered pouch (container for small items)
- Small screwdrivers (1 flat, 1 Phillips)
- Pencils
- Pencil sharpener
- Radio operation manual
- Notebook with: radio box inventory, basic radio operation instructions, activation procedures and frequency list, forms, city map, and blank paper