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General Purpose Vehicle Installation SOP Bureau of Land Management

Arizona State Office

Version 2.0

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About this guide This section provides information on the purpose of the manual, models covered, and universal standards that should be applied to all mobile radio vehicle installations in Arizona.

Radio Models Covered Skymira SATRAD Explorer 323

Skymira PepLink LTE Router

Motorola APX 8500

General Requirements

1. All Law Enforcement radios shall be installed on the driver’s side of the prisoner cage for sustainable maintenance by the BLM Radio Technicians. See example picture below:

a. If rear seat can lift with prisoner cache installed. Equipment shall be installed in a manner where the seat can still be lifted.

b. Radios shall be easily accessible for maintenance of all pieces of installed radio equipment.

2. No other vehicle accessories will be terminated at the radio fuse panel. The fuse panel is radio centric and shall not support other accessories.

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Skymira SATRAD Explorer 323/APX 8500

1. Supplies Needed

a. Power:

i. 8AWG Red and Black Copper Stranded Wire, wired direct to battery. No inline fuses, timers or splices.

ii. 8AWG Ring Terminals (Need appropriate ring size for both sides)

iii. 16AWG Yellow Copper Stranded Wire

iv. Fuse Tap with 5A fuse

v. 16AWG Ring Terminal (Need appropriate ring size for fuse panel)

vi. Fuse Panel

b. SATRAD Antenna with cable

c. SATRAD Gateway with cable

d. SATRAD Speaker with cable

e. SATRAD Control Head

f. SATRAD-APX Repeat Toggle Switch with cable

g. SATRAD PepLink (If equipped)

h. SATRAD PepLink External Antenna (If equipped)

i. APX 8500 Kit

i. All APX power wiring (Hot, Ground, and Ignition Sense) will be run from the radio fuse panel.

Note: All terminations on the fuse panel shall use appropriately sized ring terminals.

2. Installation Instructions

1. Mount equipment to the sidewall on the outside of the prisoner cage.

o SATRAD Gateway o APX 8500 o Fuse Panel o Speakers o SATRAD PepLink (If Equipped)

Note: The equipment shall be installed with rounded boltheads in the inside of the prisoner cage to insure there are no sharp edges inside the prisoner cage.

2. Install 8 AWG red and black wire directly from the battery of the vehicle to the 12V side of the fuse panel (fuses 1 thru 6) supplied by BLM. The truck chassis cannot be used as a negative terminal from the device. The negative of the battery shall terminate to the negative section of the fuse block.

3. Install 16 AWG yellow wire directly from an ignition sense source within the fuse block inside the vehicle to the ignition sense side of the fuse panel (fuses 7 thru 12) using the supplied fuse tap. The ignition sense must go to 0 volts when the vehicle ignition is shutoff.

4. Install complete SATRAD kit using the wiring diagram provided by the manufacturer.

5. Install RF and Control wiring for the APX 8500 using the wiring diagram provided by the manufacturer.

6. Install Control Heads and Toggle Switch in easy to access locations.

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a. This includes terminating the toggle switch repeat cable to the APX J2 port.

7. Install Antenna according to picture diagram on top of the vehicle.

a. Run Antenna cables through “C” Pillar.

8. Use roof mounted external antenna for SATRAD PepLink, do not use the 4 antennas that come in the box with the router.

9. See example final installation picture for reference.

10. All radios must be radio tested from the install shop prior to leaving to ensure wiring and radios are installed correctly.

Any deviation from this wiring specification MUST be approved prior to install by the Bureau of Land

Management, Arizona State Office, Field Communications Team that can be reach at 602-867-5580 or via email at blm_az_field_comm_support@blm.gov.

mailto:blm_az_field_comm_support@blm.gov

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Installation instruction for units with no SATRAD PepLink Unit.

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Note: All wiring shall be DIRECT, with no timers, cutoff switches, or splices inline.

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Installation instruction for units WITH SATRAD PepLink unit.

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