MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SUITES
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| September 6, 2005 |
The Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) has six Mobile
Communications Suites (MCS) located within the United States.
Each Mobile Communications Suite contains the following:
a 48 foot trailer consisting of the Mobile Communications
Suite; satellite platform; 35 kilowatt generator; Ku band satellite terminal
that can provide up to twenty-four incoming/outgoing voice trunks; a telephone
system that can support up to one hundred stations or extensions distributed
throughout a command center; fifty telephone sets that are included with each
communications unit and additional telephones may be procured locally; fully
integrated radio system with three operator consoles; a radio system that consists
of two VHF business band, two VHF marine, one VHF aircraft, one UHF base station
and one HF marine single side band radio where the antennas are mounted on
a 52-foot pneumatic mast that is attached to the MCS trailer; various portable
radios are also carried with each communications suite including: four VHF
repeaters; two UHF repeaters; three portable marine mobile stations; three
VHF business band mobile stations; three UHF mobile stations; portable VHF
business/VHF marine hand-held radios and one VHF aviation
base station and two aviation hand-held radios. And each
suite carries spare parts for the above-referenced equipment.
The Mobile Communications Suite can be transported either
by air or ground and can be shipped through out the Northern
Hemisphere within hours of contracting or mobilization. These
suites are self-supporting and can be made fully operational
within four to six hours upon arrival to their destination.
MSRC has deployable satellite data terminals with each Communication
Suite that can provide high-speed access to the Internet.
One system is co-located with each Mobile Communications
Suite.
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information
Mobile Communications Suite Locations:
Everett, WA
Concord, CA
Long Beach, CA
Lake Charles, LA
Miami, FL
Edison, NJ
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