Region 43 Washington

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• Region 43 (Washington)
• 800 MHz Regional Planning Committee
• April 28, 2004 - 1300 to 1500
• Yakima Probation Services Meeting Room
• Conference Line 253-512-7310
• www.region43.org
• Please get signed up on the attendee roster

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Agenda for Todays Meeting

• Roll Call and Introductions
• Agenda Modifications
• Approval of Minutes of April 30, 2003
• Applications for Review or Action
• Implementation of Interoperability Repeaters
• Merging the Regional Planning Committees
• Plan, By-Laws and Review Procedures Revisions
• Other Items/Good of the Order
• Adjourn

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Applications for Review or Action

• Community Transit
• CT is currently assigned Channel 614
  (821/866.1875) out of the Snohomish County
  allocation.
• They have applied to use this channel at a site
  in King County (Queen Anne Hill) to provide
  coverage for commuter operations into Seattle.
• They also need to move its current Snohomish
  County location to a site named Pinnacle. Since
  this is still in Snohomish County and the channel
  is designated as a Snohomish County channel in
  the Plan, there is no problem there.
• Clark County is the closest co-channel user, so
  no problem there.
• WSDOT operates 613 at Capitol Peak near Olympia,
  so this needs careful consideration.
• 615 is assigned to Wahkiakum County but is not
  currently utilized there, or elsewhere in western
  Washington, so no problem there.

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Queen Anne 40 dBu Service Area
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Queen Anne 25 dBu Adjacent Channel Protection Area
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Queen Anne 5 dBu Co-channel Protection Area
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Pinnacle 40 dBu Service Area
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Pinnacle 25 dBu Adjacent Channel Protection Area
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Pinnacle 5 dBu Co-Channel Protection Area
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WSDOT - Capitol Peak
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Path Analysis Recommendations

• In addition to the coverage predictions, CTs
  engineer calculated path losses for mobiles
  operating in their normal operations area to
  demonstrate that they wouldnt adversely impact
  the adjacent channel receivers at Capitol Peak.
• The detailed package of information was provided
  to the Zone 2 representatives and none expressed
  any objection. Several recommended approval.
• The Chair recommends approval
• Action

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Applications for Review or Action

• WSDOC McNeil Island
• We have previously assigned three (3) statewide
  channels for WSDOC use at all of their
  facilities.
• We have also approved their placement of ITAC-3
  at each of their facilities. This not only
  provides them an extra channel at each facility
  for use under Plan guidelines, it also provides a
  common Interoperability channel at each facility
  in case of an event that required outside
  resources to be deployed there.
• Several of their larger facilities require more
  than these 4 channels. For sites outside the
  dense Puget Sound basin this was easy to solve.
• At McNeil Island, instead of taking a wide-area
  channel out of the Pierce County pool, the
  Committee approved the use of ITAC-4 to provide
  additional coverage to a small portion of the
  island.
• WSDOC now needs to add two channels to meet
  capacity needs at this facility in a 5-channel
  trunked system and one for the Annex area (or
  continued use of ITAC-4)

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WSDOC McNeil Island 5 dBu Co-Channel Protection
Area
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WSDOC McNeil Island

• Spencer Bahner evaluated this on behalf of the
  Zone 2 Representatives and came up with a list of
  candidate channels that could be used for both
  the added channel and potentially to replace
  ITAC-4. This could assist the Puget Sound region
  in deployment strategies for the ITAC channels.
• 606 DOT used in north King County and south
  Snohomish County, good use as a co-channel
  infill. Channel not otherwise usable for reuse
  beyond campus applications. DOT adjacent,
  unlikely to suffer or create IX.
• 623 SERS remote IR site, good use for this as
  a co-channel infill. Seattle is adjacent but
  unlikely to suffer or create IX.
• 640 DOT used in north King County and south
  Snohomish County, good use as a co-channel
  infill. Channel not otherwise usable for reuse
  beyond campus applications. DOT adjacent,
  unlikely to suffer or create IX.
• 699 Unassigned in Plan, Seattle and EPSCA
  adjacent, unlikely to suffer or create IX.
• 735 SERS remote IR site, good use for this as
  a co-channel infill. Seattle is adjacent but
  unlikely to suffer or create IX.
• 828 unassigned in Plan, North Seattle
  adjacent, unlikely to suffer or create IX.

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WSDOC McNeil Island

• WSDOC and the City of Tacoma have advised that
  they are in discussions to potentially allow
  WSDOC to use the City of Tacoma trunked radio
  system to meet some of their needs and this may
  obviate the need for the 6th channel at McNeil
  Island.
• Chair recommends giving the Chair authority to
  assign up to three channels from the pool
  identified by Zone 2 Reps if it turns out that
  WSDOC/Tacoma relationship doesnt happen (two for
  the trunked system and one to replace ITAC-4).
• Action

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Implementation of I/O Repeaters

• Update on efforts and thinking to date by Spencer
  Bahner and Steve Taylor

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Merging the RPCs

• The 800 MHz Committee has two meetings each year
  (April October), one following the close of
  each filing window.
• Recommendations from past meetings indicates an
  interest in moving to a quarterly meeting format.
• The 700 MHz/4.9 GHz Committee is currently
  meeting monthly and will likely continue with
  that format at least through 2004. In the future
  it may shift to a less-frequent schedule
  depending on workload.
• There is a significant overlap in participants in
  both processes.
• Weve been meeting on common dates and locations
  for the past 2 years.
• The Chair recommends formally merging the
  Committees and expressing that in the Plans when
  filed with the FCC (700 this Summer and a
  re-written 800 Plan in the late Fall).
• Discussion and/or Action

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Plan, By-Laws Procedures Revisions

• The current Region 43 800 MHz Plan was written
  with the intention that it meet our planning
  needs for this band until 2005.
• As early as 2002 we knew that this was likely not
  going to be the case and we began discussions of
  doing a plan revision.
• Initially it was thought that a revision to allow
  tighter packing in the Puget Sound region was all
  we wanted to do.
• Subsequent discussions indicated a thinking that
  we should just re-write the plan to end the
  county-by-county allocations and allow fully
  competitive applications during prescribed filing
  windows. At the April 2003 meeting we approved
  this being a quarterly filing window process with
  meetings in person or via teleconference
  depending on circumstances.
• Confirm the will of the group
• Establish a working group
• Schedule follow-up actions

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Other Items/Good of the Order

• SIEC Interim Plan is released. The final plan
  will come out later in the year after the
  statewide survey of local government
  communications systems.
• http//siec.wa.gov/documents/Interim
  PlanFINAL4.20.04.pdf
• The FCC is close to acting on the 800 MHz
  interference issue. Speculation is rampant on
  whether they will follow the principles of the
  Consensus Plan, the Balanced Approach, or some
  other strategy.
• Other Items?

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Next Meeting Adjourn
October 27, 2004 Location still TBD Agenda and
meeting material will be posted on the web site
www.region43.org