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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

of 48 lines. Lotus Notes has a separate capacity (8 lines) for routine bulk<br />

faxing.<br />

C. BlackBerry. NYSDOH supports Blackberry wireless communications for key<br />

NYSDOH executive and PHP response staff. There are currently 129 users.<br />

DOH owns 150 licenses and the current servers can support up to 2000 licenses.<br />

Redundant Blackberry servers are available at both the main ESP computer site<br />

and the DR site.<br />

D. HF Radio. The HF radio system, located at 800 North Pearl, covers the<br />

frequency range from 3 to 30 MHz and uses Single Sideband (SSB) Suppressed<br />

Carrier and, at reduced power, Amplitude Modulation with carrier. It is a<br />

Mobat model 500E with four power output settings ranging from about 100<br />

watts to 500 watts peak envelope power (PEP). The radio is Automatic Link<br />

Establishment (ALE) capable. The radio is also equipped with digital mode<br />

communication using an external laptop computer and an MFJ –1275 soundcard<br />

interface. Software in the laptop allows use of the radio for RTTY (radio<br />

teletype) and weak signal PSK-31 (phase shift keying) modes. The antenna<br />

system consists of two separately fed radiators mounted on the roof of the<br />

building at 800 North Pearl. One antenna is a B&W broadband folded dipole 90<br />

feet in length and up about 15 feet from the roof surface. The other radiator is<br />

an east-west longwire about 280 feet in length supported 40 feet above the roof,<br />

tuned with an SGC model 235 automatic antenna tuner. At the radio, an<br />

antenna switch allows selection of either antenna as well as a dummy load for<br />

“off air” testing. The system is currently licensed to operate on 14 channels,<br />

each 6 kHz wide. CDC has obtained the frequencies for use with CDC related<br />

operations. The radio is also equipped to operate on amateur radio frequencies<br />

from the 80-meter band up through the 10-meter band using SSB, RTTY and<br />

PSK-31. The last CDC sponsored SSB (voice) testing was completed in the<br />

summer of 2005. Digital mode communication has been tested on the amateur<br />

frequencies with PSK-31 working especially well in weak signal conditions.<br />

E. Satellite Phone. The NYSDOH maintains a Health Operations Center<br />

collocated with the DR site at 800 North Pearl Street Menands, NY. The DR<br />

site includes a fixed satellite base station (GlobalStar Network) for alternate<br />

voice communications using satellite phone.<br />

V. Distance Learning and Remote Meeting/Collaboration<br />

A. Video Conference (VC). All 57 LHDs and 4 regional Offices have video<br />

conference capacity. Some 100 hospitals report VC capacity. Hospital video<br />

conference capacity and contact information is available through the HERDS<br />

critical asset system. NYSDOH supports two video conference bridges: one at the<br />

main computer room site and one at the DR site at 800 North Pearl Street.<br />

Depending on the resolution desired, each bridge supports 15 ISDN connections<br />

at 384k or 23 ISDN connections at 256k. The bridges may be cascaded to double<br />

the number of concurrent sessions. The bridges can also be cascaded with external<br />

commercial providers to add additional sessions to a conference. Internal to<br />

February 7, 2006 13-31

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