ARLA/CLUSTER: Comunicações de Emergência em DMR desde o Colorado

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

DMR for emergency comms in Colorado

The *Herald Times* reports on the installation of amateur radio equipment
to provide public service communications for events in North-West Colorado

As the result of a partnership between Rio Blanco County, the Sheriff’s
Office, the State of Colorado AuxComm Division and Rocky Mountain Ham Radio
LLC (a 501(c)3), amateur (HAM) radio equipment has been installed and is
operational to serve much of Rio Blanco County.

A couple of years ago, Sheriff Anthony Mazzola reached out to the Auxiliary
Communications (AuxComm) division at the State of Colorado and asked for
assistance with communications for the (then) upcoming Rally Americaâ„¢, to
be held in Rangely.  Rally organizers typically rely on amateur radio
operators for operations and emergency communications during the Rally.  At
that time, there wasn’t any Ham radio towers to facilitate the radio
traffic.  The AuxComm team brought in radio operators and public safety
radios to fill the void.  The Rally was a huge success and communications
for most of the Rally course were outstanding.

The discussions over the last two years as how to facilitate communications
for many public events in our community has yielded a conclusion that
amateur radio is likely to be the best option.

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio has offered to install communication gear at
existing radio towers to be used for this year’s Rally America.
Additionally, they have offered to leave the gear fully operational for ham
radio use, at one of the sites, when it has not been remotely configured
for local event use.

The equipment installed is robust digital hardware that allows licensed
amateurs to talk across town, or around the world, while sitting at their
kitchen table with a handheld radio. These digital radios are just slightly
more expensive that traditional analogue Ham radios.

Read the full story at
https://www.theheraldtimes.com/amateur-radio-comes-to-nw-colorado/rio-blanco-county/

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio
https://www.rmham.org/
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