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- Date of activity
- Description of activity
- Duration of activity
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December 31, 1999 @ 20:30 to January 1, 2000 @ 02:30
- Serving amateur radio groups participating
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Colorado ARES District 24
- Served agencies participating
- Elbert County Sheriff
- Douglas County Sheriff
- Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Group
- Douglas County Search and Rescue
- Describe served agency participation
- The agencies listed above either requested district 24 support at key locations within the community, or they directly participated in the New Years Eve activity.
- Number of amateurs participating
- List of amateurs participating
- Walt Loftstrom (KB0YZL)
- Dirk Malsch (N2PDQ)
- Ann Trudeau (KA0ZFI)
- Steve Lewis (KC0EUW)
- Ted Cross (N0IAK)
- Nancy Malm (KB6IGN)
- Richard Malm (KF6FK)
- John Duffield (K0KHZ)
- Todd Lines (KC0EDU)
- Dave Young (KC6WZP)
- Larry Matney (N7ZFN)
- Dick Bush (WB0EVA)
- Ron Poinsett (W3DKH)
- Ted Tsucalas (W0RMJ)
- Kathy Smith (KB0SJZ)
- Ralph Smith (KB0OYZ)
- Jed Martin (N4TKO)
- Bud Saum (K0GS)
- Mike Martin (KB0VJY)
- Bob Hitchens (K8VQC)
- Doug Sheets (KC0EDT)
- Perry Lundquist (W6AUN)
- Person-hours of amateur service
- Describe the Goals of the Activity
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At the request of Both Douglas and Elbert County’s, District 24 was asked to staff 13 key locations that operated as Y2K Information Locations where citizens could request information or request assistance in the event that any Y2K related outages occurred. Our goal was to form a communications network to provide support to these Y2K information stations, and to provide communications links to emergency services agencies within the counties.
- Did the Event Fulfill the Goals?
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Yes, our goals were accomplished and we were complimented on our professional communications.
- What Went Well?
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Our ability to construct a robust radio communications network and manage the traffic across that facility.
- Areas needing improvement
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Our ability to construct and mount portable outside antennas to operate from a variety of physical building conditions.
- Lessons learned
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Never assume that locations will be good operating positions simply because they are within a repeater’s signal footprint.
- Additional training needed
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Portable outside antennas for field operations
- General comments
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We want to acknowledge the 25 citizen volunteers that assisted us in staffing the Y2K Information Locations. These non-ham volunteers were an integral part of our activity. District 24 cooperated with the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Group, which is an organization of citizens dedicated to preparing our community for emergencies and disasters.
- Ideas for future exercises
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