Baker
To Vegas Challenge Cup Relay Race 2002
Baker
To Vegas
Challenge Cup Relay Race 2002
On April 20 and 21, 2002, DCS supported the San Dimas LASD team (Station 8 Team 185).
Our communications team gathered at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas and Ibex Pass about 40 miles north of Baker, CA in order to provide radio communications between the field units and the Las Vegas command post. A business band radio repeater was setup at Ibex Pass to provide radio coverage to the field units and it was planned to receive the repeater in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, conditions prevented the reception of the repeater in Las Vegas. That is where our motto "We will be heard" came into play. We established radio communications utilizing a 2 meter/440 cross band repeater system in the amateur radio bands on top of the Rio Hotel parking structure. To get communications inside the hotel room, we simply setup a handheld radio and transmitted to the cross band repeater in the parking lot, which in turn repeated the transmission to the Ibex site. Operators at Ibex relayed information to the field units via the business radio.
Many thanks go to the Rio Hotel security team for their assistance to the Las Vegas Command Post radio team. Their help proved to be invaluable.
Here are some pictures from
the
San Dimas Command Post
at the Rio Hotel
Click on the pictures to view a larger image
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| Here is a picture of our
antenna farm at the Rio Hotel parking structure . . |
This is the
boomer antenna that was ultimately replaced by a ringo antenna . |
Ralph is making adjustments
to the radio equipment . . |
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| The Las Vegas skyline
looking west from the Rio Hotel with the 2 meter boomer and the 440 yagi in the foreground . |
One of the
yagis used during setup . . . |
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| When you work
all day setting up radio equipment and operate radios all night, you just have to catch some sleep anyway you can |
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Page Updated On March 30, 2004
