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).

Communications Emergency. Amateurs supplied communications required to replace or supplement normal communications means.
  X       Alert. Amateurs were deployed for emergency communications, but emergency situation did not develop. Special exercise. Amateurs supplied communications for a parade, race, etc.

Test or drill. A training activity in which amateurs participated.

 2. Brief description of activity: Y2K Public Safety Communications Support

3. Places or areas involved: Matanuska Susitna Borough

4. Number of amateurs participating: 11

5. Event start date/time: 9:00 am 12/31/99         6. Event end date/time: 3:00 am 1/1/00

7. Duration of event (hours): 18 hrs.                      8. Total man-hours: 96

9. Number of repeaters used: 3

10. Estimated manpower cost: $960 (man-hours times $10/hr)

11. Estimated cost of equipment used: $18,150 (hand-helds, repeaters, etc.)

12. Total estimated cost of service: $19,110 (add amounts from lines 10 and 11)

13. Nets and/or frequencies used (including repeater call signs): KL7ION ARES REPEATER, 147.90/30 MHz; KL7DOB REPEATER, 146.04/64 MHz; KL7CC CROSSBAND REPEATER, 147.57/447.57 MHz.

14. Number of messages handled: Continuous standby traffic.

15. Names of agencies receiving communications support: Matanuska Susitna Borough Emergency Service Providers. ( A borough is equivalent to a county.)

16. Please list call signs of amateurs who were major participants: WL7BD, WL7IN, NL7SK, KL0FE, WB7SFO, KD5ESY, KL0SM, KC2BYX, KL7DV, KL0GG, KL7HHO.

17. Other comments: THE MATANUSKA AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION was asked to work with the Borough Public Safety people to provide communications in case normal communications failed because of Y2K glitches. We had been invited to set up at Fire Station 65 on the Seward Meridian Rd. between Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska at 9:00 am Dec. 31st, 1999 as part of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC). For lack of HF Ham volunteers, we decided not to set up an HF station but rely on the 447.57 cross band link to the 147.57 simplex frequency used by the HF big guns in this area. I also activated the UHF remote base on the 146.64 repeater and installed a cross band repeater to the 147.3 ARES repeater. With these 3 UHF channels, you could go anywhere in the EOC or the National Guard Armory and talk to the Mat-Su valley on 146.64, the entire south central Alaska area including the Anchorage EOC on 147.3, and many HF operators standing by monitoring 147.57. All this was done using small low powered UHF walkie-talkies with only 3 channels in them. I loaned one such radio to the National Guard Communication Officer and one to the Red Cross Coordinator and had a backpack with more of these radios and spare batteries that I could have loaned to emergency service providers should there have been a need for backup communications. We also had two packet stations up and running and connected to the Anchorage EOC.

Report information graciously provided by Dan O'Barr, WL7BD.

Please attach photos of amateurs in action, newspaper clippings or other data.
See photos attached below.
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Name of Amateur Radio organization providing service:
MATANUSKA AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION

Location of organization:     City or town: Wasilla              State: Alaska

Your name: Kent Petty Call sign: KL5T

Address: 21440 Falling Water Circle

ARRL appointment, if any: Alaska SM               e-mail address: [email protected]

Telephone: 907.266.9277          907.694.5856
                         (days)                     (evenings)

I attest that the information provided above is complete and true to the best of my
knowledge.

Signature and date

                                                November 26, 2000