"Enter, the MITT 2.0 Deployable Radio Site

The fruit of their labors is the Mobile Interoperable Tower Trailer (MITT) 2.0 Deployable Radio Site, designed and manufactured by Pepro, LLC in Oil City, Pennsylvania. It features a 26-foot trailer, 60-foot tower with a 15-foot needle for a total of 75 feet, an Onan 12.5 kw diesel generator with 90-gallon fuel tank, and four bay shielded cabinets with a Faraday cage enclosure that protects against lightning, RFI, EMI and PIM.

“Probably the biggest piece of this new portable tower that differentiates it from other tower trailers is that it has a six-channel Motorola P25 trunking system that we can operate on our local system, or we can switch over and operate on the nationwide interoperable trunking frequencies,” Jorgensen said. “With a six-channel trunking system, we can have up to five simultaneous conversations. With 300 or so talk groups, we are going from two places to communicate up to 300. That’s a huge increase.”

In addition to trunking capability, the MITT 2.0 packs several repeaters using UHF, VHF, 700 MHz and 800 MHz.

The MITT 2.0 can also provide phone system capabilities. For example, if the mayor’s office lost phone service, the trailer could be pulled up to the mayor’s office and fiber could be run inside to their existing switches to quickly get it back up and functional. For radio system backhaul and internet access, it uses an IPaccess Satellite solution, Redphone VoIP encryption, eight SIPs phone lines, two Sierra MG90 routers, and four SIMs for terrestrial — Verizon and FirstNet.

“Through satellite, FirstNet and Verizon, we can access the internet to establish virtual private networks to other places that we need to securely connect,” Jorgensen said."