Santa Clara County OES
ARES/RACES Packet Frequency List
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This list was compiled from information sent to the Webmaster, Phil Henderson.
If there are corrections or additions, please E-Mail them to kf6zsq @ yahoo.com.
Last Update: 01/19/10

Santa Clara County Backbone Nodes

Backbone nodes provide routing and other services to all agencies in the county.

Call Sign 2m Access 1.25m Access Location Comments
W6XSC-1 144.910  (1.1) 223.660  (1.1) San Jose JNOS; 24/7; UPS
K6MTV-1 144.310 223.540 Mountain View JNOS; 24/7; UPS
TBD (1.2) 145.690 223.700 West County JNOS; 24/7; UPS
TBD (1.2) 145.730 TBD South County JNOS; 24/7; UPS

Contact:  The Santa Clara County Packet Committee manages the country packet backbone nodes.  Send email to pktcmte at sunnside dot com.

Notes:
(1.1) The access frequencies for W6XSC-1 are temporarily maintained on their historical frequencies to ease user transition to the new backbone nodes. These frequencies will migrate to new frequencies (144.990 and 223.620) as soon as practical.
(1.2) Two additional backbone nodes are currently being tested and will be added in a future phase of deployment.

 

Cities and Agency Node Assignments

Cities and agencies:  Login to your designated node with your designated tactical call.  Consult your EC if you do not know your tactical call.  Mail can be directed to these tactical calls from anywhere in the network and it will be automatically routed to the proper location. 

Individual ARES/RACES users:  Login to your city's designated node with your FCC call sign.

  Agency Primary Node (2.1) Secondary Node (2.2)
1 Campbell, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
2 County Communications Center W6XSC-1 TBD
3 Cupertino, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
4 Gilroy, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
5 Loma Prieta Region W6XSC-1 TBD
6 Los Altos, City of K6MTV-1 TBD
7 Los Altos Hills, Town of K6MTV-1 TBD
8 Los Gatos, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
9 Los Gatos Red Cross W6XSC-1 TBD
10 Milpitas, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
11 Monte Sereno, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
12 Morgan Hill, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
13 Mountain View, City of K6MTV-1 TBD
14 NASA/Ames K6MTV-1 TBD
15 Palo Alto, City of K6MTV-1 TBD
16 Palo Alto Red Cross K6MTV-1 TBD
17 San Jose, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
18 San Jose Red Cross W6XSC-1 TBD
19 San Jose Water Co W6XSC-1 TBD
20 Santa Clara, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
21 Santa Clara County (XSC) W6XSC-1 TBD
22 Santa Clara Valley Water District W6XSC-1 TBD
23 Saratoga, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
24 Stanford University K6MTV-1 TBD
25 Sunnyvale, City of W6XSC-1 TBD
Other Agencies
26 Monterey County (XMY) W6XSC-1 TBD
27 San Benito County (XBE) W6XSC-1 TBD
28 Santa Cruz County (XCZ) W6XSC-1 TBD

Notes:
(2.1)  In the past, all agencies accessed W6XSC.  In this initial phase, six agencies will be moved off of W6XSC.  This will reduce traffic and frequency contention for all users of W6XSC. Future phases will move more cities to other nodes.

(2.2)  Each agency will also have a preconfigured backup node which can be easily tested on a regular basis and accessed in the event the primary node fails.  Alternate routing to additional backup is also possible.  The backup node configurations will be completed in a future phase of deployment.

 

Santa Clara County Hospitals

Santa Clara County contains eleven hospitals plus the DEOC.  They currently use KF6ZSQ-4 on 144.950, located at the San Jose DEOC.  They will be migrated to the new plan in a future phase.

 

Other Nodes

Frequency BBS Call Digipeat Call Location Contact Comments
144.950 KF6ZSQ-4   San Jose DEOC Phil Henderson, KF6ZSQ 24/7 - Used for Hospital Net communication
144.910 KI6DHU-1 KI6DHU North Palo Alto Mark Foster, KI6DHU 24/7 - Timewave PK-96, 5W
144.910 K6SNY-1   Sunnyvale Andreas Ott, K6OTT 24/7 - KPC-3 TNC BBS
145.050 K6FB-2 K6FB-1
KA-Node: KF6FB-7
Castle Rock Ridge Skip La Fetra, AA6WK 24/7 - Battery Backed up, KPC-3 TNC
145.050 AA6WK-1 AA6WK
KA-Node: AA6WK-7
Suburban Sunnyvale Skip La Fetra, AA6WK No Battery backup, KPC-3 TNC
144.310 K6LOS-1 K6LOS North Los Altos Jim Clark, N6JRC KPC-3 BBS
144.310 K6MTV-1 K6MTV Mountain View Jerry Haag, K6GAC KPC-3 BBS
145.050 W6SJC-1   San Jose Craig Anderson, N6YXK BBS and APRS
144.930
433.370 (9600 baud)
N0ARY-1   San Jose Gary Mitchell, WB6YRU Sun System BBS, SW written by
Bob Arasmith, N0ARY
145.090 W6EW-10
Telpac
  Alameda Kit Blanke, WA6PWW Winlink RMS node (may be off the air)
145.690 WA6LIE-10
Telpac
  Salinas Scott Avery, WA6LIE Winlink RMS; May not be reachable from South Bay

Santa Cruz County Packet Information

An Acrobat table of Packet stations in Santa Cruz County can be found at: http://ares.santa-cruz.ca.us/MRYBAYpacket.PDF

Additional Information About Packet Networking

Band Plan:  The complete digital band plan for Northern California can be found on the Northern California Packet Association website at:  http://www.n0ary.org/ncpa/

 


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