{"id":6105,"date":"2012-05-12T01:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T07:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2012-06-22T01:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T07:54:15","slug":"austin-tour-de-cure-2012-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=6105","title":{"rendered":"Austin Tour de Cure 2012 – Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My son David KD5MTJ and myself made the trip up north to Austin to help out Paul KA5FZU with coordinating the ham radio communications for this year’s single day event.\u00a0 It started & ended at the Travis County Expo Center, east of Austin, and featured multiple routes (11, 30, 55, 78, 100) spread across two counties.\u00a0 Law enforcement support was great, especially the Williamson County Sheriff’s department who kept in close phone contact with me during the event until all riders had cleared out of his county.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One rider, who was spotted by the WC Sheriff deputy appearing to be in health distress, was placed inside his patrol car for the air conditioning until we could send a SAG truck (ABC Home & Commercial Services) up to retrieve him.\u00a0 Talk about service?\u00a0 Don’t know if the rider was in the front or back seat, however. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We used APRS trackers from the Austin Amateur Radio Club to track 6 of the SAG trucks and 6 of the supply trucks (Austin Energy).\u00a0 We coordinated medical coverage with the MSET-TX motorcycle group out of Austin, who provided a handful of trained, certified EMT motorcycle riders, able to respond promptly to medical incidents out on the route.<\/p>\n

The Comm Center was setup inside the main Banquet Hall, in a small room that had no windows, and virtually zero air conditioning.\u00a0 We ran the coax cables up thru the false ceiling into a nearby electrical room, and then out thru an opening in the concrete block wall to our antennas.\u00a0\u00a0 Internet services were provided by WiMaxSATX.com <\/a>using CLEAR’s 4G WiMax Internet services.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos taken during the event.\u00a0 As I get more time, I’ll add some captions to better explain them.<\/p>\n

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