tim292stro
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Another project I'd like to get started... As the thread title suggests, I'm looking to build a Forward Operating Base In-a-Can (FOBIC pronounced like "phobic" ).
This should be a trailer contained base camp, included tents, generator, latrine w/shower(s), and beds/bunks - it should be able to comfortably billet up to 16 people, and support 32 people during social events in "less than ideal" weather:
Planned components:
The thinking behind this is, with kids that will be in Boy Scouts in a few years, I always wanted this type of setup at summer camp myself . In an emergency, we'd be able to move out of our 1930's masonry building (in the S.F. Bay Area, four blocks from the Hayward Fault, 20 miles from the San Andreas Fault) - having been through the 1989 quake my family donated a tent shelter to the Red Cross, which we later saw in-use on the news as a food service shelter (very distinct color canvas - blue and yellow with red repair thread), I understand and appreciate having available a camp setup that is as some would call "overkill". For a disaster where we are okay housing wise, it would have use that can be offered to house local EMS - triage, SAR outpost, R&R shack, etc... as long as they need.
With our larger family gatherings (both my parents and in-laws are from large families, makes the family reunions VERY big - 100+ people including great grand kids), this will get used a lot I'm guessing...
Inspiration for this collection of gear comes in the form of a picture from an friend in the 129th ANG who "gets it":
This should be a trailer contained base camp, included tents, generator, latrine w/shower(s), and beds/bunks - it should be able to comfortably billet up to 16 people, and support 32 people during social events in "less than ideal" weather:
Planned components:
- 2x Base-X 305 tents (one with stove-pipe pass-through in the roof
- Retrofit to 24VDC dimmable all-LED lighting (<1W-480Watts per 305)
- Each 5' section of tent (305/203) will have 4x ~4' strips of adjustable white-point LED strip
- At the center of each 4' strip 1x NVIS-A green LED will be placed
- Serial controlled three channel PWM will be implemented for each 4' section of lighting (NVIS, Warm white, Cool White)
- One set up as four 10'x8' sleeping berths (private) with either cots, or cot-bunks
- Sleeping berths convertible to first-aid berths, basic medical support
- One set up as communal space - cooking, eating, sitting, entertaining
- Sink with hot water available in cooking area
- Eating/sitting/entertaining space convertible to working space (similar to command layout: tables + chairs + computers)
- Retrofit to 24VDC dimmable all-LED lighting (<1W-480Watts per 305)
- 1x Base-X 203 tent (with stove-pipe pass-through in the roof)
- Retrofit to 24VDC dimmable all-LED lighting (<1W-288Watts)
- Each 5' section of tent (305/203) will have 4x ~4' strips of adjustable white-point LED strip
- At the center of each 4' strip 1x NVIS-A green LED will be placed
- Serial controlled three channel PWM will be implemented for each 4' section of lighting (NVIS, Warm white, Cool White)
- 2x port-o-potty stalls
- 2x shower stalls
- 2x sink with hot-water available
- storage space
- Retrofit to 24VDC dimmable all-LED lighting (<1W-288Watts)
- Shade canopy to cover whole camp
- four sections of 40'x50' lightweight netting, total 80'x100' coverage (roughly)
- Trailer with generator for transportation
- 40-gallons diesel tank
- 24VDC generator, auto-start
- >350Ah battery bank
- 5kW Pure-Sine-Wave inverter/UPS ("shore power" input)
- 6.4kW portable solar array (20x 320Watt 5'x4' panels)
- 3x tent heaters (SHC-35/60?)
- 3x 5-gallon scepter fuel cans each (extra 45 gallons of storage)
- Water Filtration Equipment
- Something more compact than a LWP - but about the same throughput (1,600gallons/day - assumes ~100Gallons/person/day)
- 200 gallon flexible storage tank
- IT equipment - Hardigg 9U shock-mount case containing:
- 4kWh 24VDC UPS
- Cellular router/server (Panasonic CF-30 ToughBook + vehicle mount bolted to sliding rack drawer)
- External Video Card for driving large-format displays.
- VoIP server (Asterisk)
- provision for future VSAT satellite up-link as option - using the compact GATR VSAT 2.4M "Beachball"
- additional future provision for mesh-type fielded-network like Broadband-HAMNET
- L3 Managed 24-port PoE switch (10/100) 4x 1Gbe fiber up-links (Moxa)
- 802.11ac dual-band outdoor AP (Ubiquity)
- 8x simple wired VoIP phones (Grandstream)
- Cell phones can use VoIP SW/app over WiFi to be "roamers"
- 4x Panasonic CF-30 ToughBook "workstations"
- 2x 1280x720 ultra short throw LCD projectors
- 2x 100"-diagonal roll-up rear projection screens - these setups will fit in the angled side wall of the tent, taking as little floor space as possible.
- 4x pair of DC self-powered speakers
The thinking behind this is, with kids that will be in Boy Scouts in a few years, I always wanted this type of setup at summer camp myself . In an emergency, we'd be able to move out of our 1930's masonry building (in the S.F. Bay Area, four blocks from the Hayward Fault, 20 miles from the San Andreas Fault) - having been through the 1989 quake my family donated a tent shelter to the Red Cross, which we later saw in-use on the news as a food service shelter (very distinct color canvas - blue and yellow with red repair thread), I understand and appreciate having available a camp setup that is as some would call "overkill". For a disaster where we are okay housing wise, it would have use that can be offered to house local EMS - triage, SAR outpost, R&R shack, etc... as long as they need.
With our larger family gatherings (both my parents and in-laws are from large families, makes the family reunions VERY big - 100+ people including great grand kids), this will get used a lot I'm guessing...
Inspiration for this collection of gear comes in the form of a picture from an friend in the 129th ANG who "gets it":
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