Major new US domestic HF network to be set up
Who says HF is dead? The US Department of Veterans Affairs intends to deploy a resilient emergency high frequency radio network to connect medical centres spread throughout the nation.
The five-year firm fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract will include equipment, installation, testing, certification, warranty and training to guarantee a fully functional ‘turnkey’ system.
The network will have “400-watt backbone stations designed to receive and automatically relay communications among 125-watt stations and 125-watt mobile vehicle-based stations located at approximately 200 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities”, according to the solicitation notice.
The aim is to provide emergency HF two-way radio communication, linkage to the PSTN, data transmission, cellular and IP telephone networks enabling radio-to-telephone communication and automatic link establishment (ALE).
Other US departments have similar HF systems. The Department of Homeland Security has a network known as SHARES, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Army National Guard and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have HF networks.
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