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- Date of activity
- Description of activity
- Damage to a major US WEST fiber cable in Douglas County caused a communications emergency where all 911 lines within the County were down and the Sheriff's department was unable to request mutual aid from other departments using landline facilities.
- Duration of activity
- Serving amateur radio groups participating
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Colorado ARES District 24, District 22, and District 14
- Served agencies participating
- El Paso County Sheriff
- Teller County Sheriff
- Arapahoe County Sheriff
- Elbert County Sheriff
- Littleton Fire Dispatch
- Greenwood Police Department
- Douglas County Sheriff
- Parker Police Department
- Castle Rock Communications Center
- Describe served agency participation
- Provided facilites access to ARES/RACES operators. Agencies were on standby in the event that the Douglas County Sheriffs department needed to request mutual aid.
- Number of amateurs participating
- List of amateurs participating
- Bud Saum, K0GS D24
- Dave Young, KC6WZP D24
- Mike Martin, KB0VJY D24
- Larry Noble, N0NDM D24
- Dirk Malsch, N2PDQ D24
- Ann Trudeau, KA0ZFI D24
- Woody Linwood, W0UI D24
- Rick Von Glahn, N0KKZ D24
- Larry Matney, N7ZFN D24
- Garry Hefty, KA9ODE D24
- Perry Lundquist, W6AUN D24
- Bob Regan,WB4ETT D22
- Dave Galpin,KB0LP D22
- Jerry Cassidy, N0MYY D22
- Ben Baker, KB0UBZ D22
- Ann Crawford, W0APC D22
- Dean Haskins, KA0PII D14
- Mark Newby, WL7LZ D14
- Doc Cornell, W0MCT D14
- John Roberts, KB0VGX D14
- Wes Wilson, K0HBZ D14
- Fred Maxwell, KC0FRM D14
- Charlie Hailbronner, KC0EST D14
- George Lockhart, W0GHL D14
- Mark Flutcher, KC0EGI D14
- Person-hours of amateur service
- Describe the Goals of the Activity
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To establish communication links between served agencies using amateur frequencies, to provide a means of passing 911 and mutual aid related traffic.
- Did the Event Fulfill the Goals?
- What Went Well?
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Our activation and participation of sister districts. Our deployment and the establishment of eight field operating positions within the first two hours of the mission.
- Areas needing improvement
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Our net participation skills. Net participants need to learn to relax and to let carrier drop between transmissions whenever possible. This practice will make it easier for stations with priority traffic to place their calls.
- Lessons learned
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It is very important to have contact information designed for quick lookup and kept handy. Our callout roster needs to have D14 contact information added to it. It is always a challenge to organize an ARES response during working hours. Members should keep more than just an HT in their vehicles. Some first responders with only HTs were limited on antenna, battery life, and output power.
- Additional training needed
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Net Control and net participation.
- General comments
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Good activation and mission. It was an amazing response created and put in place in a very short period of time. District 24 would like to thank our sister districts 14 and 22 for their support and hard work. They invested many hours and worked right along side of
us in D24. This mission wouldn't have been possible without their help.
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