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- Date of activity
- Description of activity
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At approximately 5:00 pm, a construction crew in Castle Rock cut a telephone
cable which provides phone service into Elbert County, the Town of Parker,
and the Founders Village area of Castle Rock. The cable break also affected
911 service into these areas. The 911 lines supporting these areas were
rolled to the Douglas County Sheriff's dispatch center. District 24 was
called out to build a communications network to carry the 911 information
from calls received from the outage areas, back to Elbert County Sheriff and
the Parker police department. District 24 assigned operators at the Douglas
County Sheriff's dispatch center, and used the CRA's 147.225 repeater to
support communications for the incident.
- Duration of activity
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October 8, 17:00 to 02:30 October 9, 02:30
- Serving amateur radio groups participating
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ARES District 24, District 22 was placed on standby
- Served agencies participating
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Elbert County Sheriff
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Douglas County Sheriff
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Parker Police Department
- Describe served agency participation
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Douglas County Sheriff's office received 911 calls for the area of
Elbert County and Parker, which were affected by the outage. Elbert County
Sheriff and Parker Police followed up as needed.
- Number of amateurs participating
- List of amateurs participating
- Person-hours of amateur service
- Describe the Goals of the Activity
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To establish and operate a reliable communications path between Elbert
County Sheriff, Parker Police and the Douglas County Sheriff dispatch
center.
- Did the Event Fulfill the Goals?
- What Went Well?
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The communications network established over 147.225 worked extremely well
over a very wide area. What also worked well was the efficiency of the
911 message traffic passed through the network.
- Areas needing improvement
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Need to get a permanent antenna on the roof of the Elbert Sheriff's office and
Parker Police Department. Both organizations are interested in placing
an antenna for us; we will work further with them to see that this is
accomplished.
- Lessons learned
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Most of the traffic across the net was passed from Douglas Sheriff to either
Parker Police or Elbert Sheriff. We operated a formal directed net with
a net control operator clearing all traffic. In this situation we could have
increased our efficiency by letting stations call each other direct, without
the need to call for net control first. In this situation there were only
a few station locations, we need to learn to adapt to the needs of the
situation.
- Additional training needed
- General comments
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Everyone performed excellently. We received thanks from our served agencies
for a job well done.
- Ideas for future exercises
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