AirLink is Ready!

Your AirLink ham radio volunteers are here and ready should there be any communications needs during the current crisis.

Boulder’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is activated, and we all will have our radios on more than usual and listening for anything that affects our mountain communities.

We are not first responders but if power goes out and phones and internet are not working, our ham radios will work, and we can communicate with the outside world as needed.

We all should be physically isolating ourselves as much as possible, but please stay in touch with neighbors and friends by phone, email or internet meeting app. Zoom works well here if you don’t already have a favorite. It’s easy to understand and it’s free.

If you live alone or you know a neighbor who lives alone, please reach out and occasionally check in with each other so that everyone has an emergency buddy.

If you do have an emergency, follow these steps:

1. Call 911. Do not ask a neighbor to help if it means close contact as this could endanger you or your neighbor if either of you is contagious. We are learning that some people with COVID-19 have no symptoms, so it may not be obvious when someone is infected.

• It may appear that contacting a neighbor would be quicker, but that is not necessarily the case. Local first responders, people you know and are trained, will arrive quickly and, unlike your neighbor, they will have protective gear.

2. If phones are not working and if you are able, tie a large white piece of cloth on your doorknob, mailbox, tree or whatever can easily be seen from the road.

• If phones are not working, AirLink and other community volunteers will check neighborhoods occasionally, and if an emergency flag is seen, the local first responders will be notified.

For information from the EOC about the local COVID-19 outbreak, you can go to their web page:
https://www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/

or the Colorado Department of Health: https://www.colorado.gov/cdphe Also, check out the AirLink web page at https://airlinkradio.org/ and consider

joining this fun group and becoming a ham!
A sampling of neighbors you know who are active ham radio operators:

Gold Hill Subdivision:

– Steve Sherman (KD0YYW) – Pam Sherman (KE0CAO)
– Brian Tomas (KE0JEZ)

Gold Hill town and west:

– Chrissy Maedke (KE0CAR) – Jerry Krenz (KE0MWC)
– Dave Sturtz ((N0ZTR)
– Anita Sturtz (KB0QYA)

– John Sand (KD0PYJ) – Dina Elder (KD0YYT)

FourMile Canyon:

` Charlie (KC0CVH) and Jane (KE0DAY) VanHouten (Logan Mill) – Jonathan Machen (KE0DBC) (lower 4Mile)

Lefthand Canyon (Nugget Hill):

– Bill VanMatre (KD0YYY) and Tom Fisher (KD0YYU)