On Saturday morning, 11/15/2025, an intrepid group of six volunteers from our repeater committee made the trek to the Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch: Mark Alsop (KT0AM), Walt Burns (AB0VZ), Bill Wooton (KF0CWS), Brad Tombaugh (W0BDT), Chuck Baumgarten (KF0KTG) and Joe Moll (K0DNS). We operate a repeater that covers central Elbert County and is used by […]
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We are so proud to have been able to participate in the 2025 Heroes Gala honoring our first responders, Armed Forces members, and other nonprofit organizations supporting these brave heroes. Several ARESDEC members attended and showed our Mobile Command Center and an amateur radio “Go Box” to demonstrate some of our capabilities responding to emergency
It was a beautiful, Sunday, September 7, 2025, with over 280 bikers entering the Fall Poker Run, an event held twice a year on the Rampart Range in the Pike National Forest. The weather was delightful, about 77 degrees for a high, sunny with partly skies and gentle winds whispering through the pine and Aspen
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We completed another successful ARESDEC Field Day! We moved to a different site for 2025 due to non-availability of the site used in previous years. We were setup at Hess Reservoir located at 9343 Double Angel Rd, Castle Rock, CO 80108. It was a picture perfect weekend. We operated as N0KV 3A CO. The new
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On Sunday, December 22, between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM, ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) R1D5 successfully installed a permanent Diamond X50 antenna at the Elbert County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall. This project brought together the expertise and teamwork of Dick (K8ZTT), Hal (KE0KFB), Bill (KF0CWS), Gabriel (KF0LYR), and Jerry (AG7U). Why the Exhibit Hall? As
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