PUBLIC SERVICE
              ACTIVITY REPORT

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About This Form

Amateur Radio donates thousands of man-hours of supplementary public service communications in civil emergencies, official drills and events such as parades and marathons each year. Such events show Amateur Radio in its best light, and it is critically important that ARRL bring documentation of this public service work to the attention of the Congress, the FCC and other public officials. Your information below is an important addition to the record. Please complete and return this form to the Public Service Branch at ARRL Headquarters. Thank you.
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1. Nature of activity (Check one).

X       Communications Emergency. Amateurs supplied communications required to replace or supplement normal
          communications means.

3. Places or areas involved: Juneau and Thane Alaska

4. Number of amateurs participating: 4

5. Event start date/time: 27 Mar 00/0830                            6. Event end date/time: 27 Mar 00/1130

7. Duration of event (hours): 3.0                                         8. Total man-hours: 12

9. Number of repeaters used: 2

10. Estimated manpower cost: $480 (man-hours times $10/hr)

11. Estimated cost of equipment used: $8,400 (hand-helds, repeaters, etc.)

12. Total estimated cost of service: $8,880 (add amounts from lines 10 and 11)

13. Nets and/or frequencies used (including repeater call signs): 2 KL7PF repeaters, 146.82 MHz and 147.00 MHz

14. Number of messages handled: 2

15. Names of agencies receiving communications support: Juneau and Thane Communities,and Juneau Police Dept.

16. Please list call signs of amateurs who were major participants: WL7CMQ, NL7XZ, WA6AXO, WL7ET

17. Other comments: The slides were purposely triggered with shots by the Alaska Department of Transportation. The avalanches took out the major power lines that serve Juneau, telephone lines into Thane, and blocked the road for two days. Juneau hams organized a system to get message traffic to and from Thane because we expected that the phones may be out for a long time. We put out an announcement through a local radio station and informed the police that we could handle health and welfare to and from Thane residents. We announced that Jim Dillon WL7CMQ, who lives on the Thane side of the blocked road, marked his mail box with yellow tape for use as a message drop. We gave the phone numbers of hams standing by in Juneau to assist with communications and other hams stayed on frequency to assist if necessary.

We used this system to relay messages until the telephone lines were reconnected about three hours after we mobilized for this event. WL7CMQ personally checked in on the welfare of two sets of house bound families at the request of concerned relatives. While the outage wasn't as long as we expected it to be, we demonstrated that we could do the job.

The photos were taken be a Thane resident who was hiking out to catch a plane and start his vacation that day.

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Name of Amateur Radio organization providing service: Juneau ARES

Location of organization:    City or town: Juneau         State: AK

Your name: Kent Petty         Call sign: KL5T

Address: 2229 Turnagain Parkway, Anchorage, AK 99517

ARRL appointment, if any: Alaska Section Manager, Volunteer Examiner, ARES Member

e-mail address: [email protected]

Telephone: (907) 552-9780               (907) 243-5856
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I attest that the information provided above is complete and true to the best of my knowledge.
 

Larry K Petty, KL5T                                                                                 2 Apr 00