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Here is a terrific view of the open desert with the OPD
runner (Team #57) leading what seems to be an endless line of runners and support vehicles
from the competing teams. |
Photo by Byron - KC6YNG |
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The OPD runner on the right has just started his
“leg” of the race. The runner on the left is being caught by a
“catcher” as he checks his completion time for his running time. The OPD
“Follow vehicle” can be seen in the background. |
Photo by Mike - KF6WRM |
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The OPD runner is traveling through the city of Pahrump,
NV (right outside the COAR communications center) late at night on leg 11. |
Photo by Bob - AF6C |
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These COAR posters identified the Orange PD
Communications Center in Pahrump. |
Photo by Ken - W6HHC |
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The main antenna (144 and 440 MHz...strapped to the
railing) used by the Pahrump communications center is on the left. The APRS tracking
antenna (144 MHz) is on the right, next to the room used for the comm center. |
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Photo by Ken - W6HHC |
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Ken - W6HHC tries a few radio checks on Saturday morning
at the Pahrump comm center. |
Photo by Bob - AF6C |
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In Pahrump, Debbie Klein of OPD checks the APRS display
for the location of the Team #57 runner with Bob-AF6C. |
Photo by Ken - W6HHC |
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“Antennas Everywhere!!!” In the hotel parking
lot at Pahrump, this serious communication vehicle for team #29 was spotted. I counted 17
antennas. |
Photo by Ken W6HHC |
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| In Pahrump, these snowy peaks are roughly in the direction that the
runners have to pass through the “high country” before dropping down into Las
Vegas. |
Photo by Bob - AF6C |
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A glimpse of the “night life” at a cold
checkpoint where many runners and their communications support people are waiting for
their team to arrive for the baton exchange. |
Photo by Mike - KF6WRM |
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At the Las Vegas communications center, all the antennas
are aimed at the top of the mountain pass. The OPD Las Vegas team made use of a cross-band
repeater located at Sandy Valley Road comm. center. They would hear all the backbone 144
MHz messages on the other side of the mountains being rebroadcast on 446 MHz (and vice
versa). If you enlarge the picture...you can see the snowy peaks above the antennas. |
Photo by Beverly - KI6APH |
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The fifth OPD communications center was located in the
Emerald Suits, near the finish line for the race. Here is one of the three ops,
Dieter - N6ZKD, at the Las Vegas comm center. |
| Photo by Beverly - KI6APH |
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A Certificate of Appreciation was presented to each
radio operator, who helped the OPD running team with the Baker-to-Vegas race, by Chief Bob
Gustafson of the Orange Police Department
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