U.S. Air Force -The David Grant Medical Center (DGMC) Travis AFB, California is the largest Military Treatment Facility (MTF) on the West coast and the second largest inpatient MTF in the United States Air Force. DGMC encompasses over 808,475 net square feet with 3,662 rooms, 350 inpatient beds, 41 aero medical staging beds and 52 dental treatment rooms. The building itself is an eight story building with a basement. There are four occupied floors with interstitial between each of the floors thus making the eight stories. The interstitials house all the HVAC equipment along with all the cable trays and electrical equipment.   Immediately adjacent to the MTF is the one story Dental building which is also a concern of DGMC.

 

DGMC Information  Technology staff recognized a concern with unreliable portable wireless communication and have contracted with ACD Telecom to perform analysis of the coverage of VHF 149 MHz Code Blue Paging, UHF 406-420 MHz trunking system, the, 4 major cellular systems; AT&T Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint Nextel, and the 929 MHZ USA Mobility paging system.

 

Testing was performed of the systems for each of the occupied floors and the adjacent Dental building. In the case of the currently installed distributed antenna system. The amplified channels were tested with the amplifier system under conditions of both ON and then OFF to compare the improvement afforded by the amplifiers and antenna system.

 

Upon completion of testing, ACD Telecom converted the collected data to both tabular (Microsoft Excel) and graphic AutoCAD format for review by the client. Additionally, a summary report was drafted using graphic views of coverage performance for each of the channels on each floor.

 

For more information on the work performed by ACD Telecom for Travis AFB, please contact us.

 

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