November 13, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Ham monitor didn't page. I was on my way back from lunch when the monitor alerted at APA.
Located: ELT was located on a Falcon to Mayo Aviation. It was turned of shortly after by A&E. Dan Alsum stopped me and confirmed the ELT was on that aircraft. Dan says Hi.
Teams: KC0JBV, N0PSR, N0QPT?
Lessons Learned:

October 28, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: TRI-County (ERIE) Airport
Located: In aircraft's cargo area. Airplane was parked at rocky mtn propellers shop.
Teams: N0psr, N0pyq, kc0jbv
Lessons Learned:

October 05, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Located: 2V2 and Eldorado alerted around 1040 local. JJ paged team around 1140 local. 51 arrived 2V2, initially unable to acquire signal on airport. 51 decided to check for signal at 2V2 monitor location, and acquired a very weak signal with H frames only, indicating toward the south. After a short walk to the south edge of the parking area 51 decided the signal was not originating from the airport. 51 then DF'd the signal in basically a straight line from 2V2 to 1V5 - Boulder Muni using county roads. The signal was emanating from a Piper Cherokee 180 on the ramp at 1V5. ELT was deactivated by FBO personnel at 1350 local.
Teams: JJ, 51
Lessons Learned: 2V2 monitor has excellent ears to 1V5

September 28, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Ham monitor alerted about 11AM.
Located: ELT was located in hangar SE of tower, mechanic just changed battery.
Teams: KC0JBV, KC0JMT, N0RDE
Lessons Learned:

September 25, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA started Alerting at approximately 0600 hrs.
Located: Located on Super King air, just west of the Denver Jet Center East. ELT was turned off at approximately 0650 hrs.
Teams: N0NIM, N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

September 19, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
ELT alert 16:30.
Located: Hanger at BJC. Turned off by Avaition Mechanic at 17:30.
Teams: n0psr, wd0aad, and a few others stuck in traffic
Lessons Learned:

August 26, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Airborne
ELT airborne for about an hour...
Located: On Flight for Life at ST anthony's north.
Teams: n0psr, n0pyq, k0lpm
Lessons Learned:

August 22, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 16:53 at APA.
Located: After working for several minutes the signal was strongest around the channel 7 helicopter. Finally located the ELT and checked the front panel to see switch and LED flashing. Then A&Es could not get ELT to turn off with panel switch or ELT switch. Took the battery out and ELT was wet inside circuit card.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: ELTs are not located in the same place on helicopters as aircraft, and may be harder to determine the offending aircraft.

August 25, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Started at 8:21, found at 9:20
Located: Located in Tac Air hanger #10 on a military aircraft. Mechanics installed a faulty switch in cockpit or had faulty wiring to swith in cockpit.
Teams: N0ZEE, N0JJH
Lessons Learned:

August 22, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Monitor alerted around 0550.
Located: Departed home at 0608, Paged FREDF group enroute. Found on King Air on the ramp about 0700.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

August 03, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: SAR-SAT
Sar-Sat hits on and off for several weeks, but no one heard anything either in aircraft or ground.
Located: Carrier-only. Seems as if DIA's Command Post vechile, had a busted radio, stuck in transmit mode, for an unknown period of time. (probably weeks from info I have gathered.) Seems that the vechile is stored in a building, and all radios are left on, and the batteries charging... The vechile was removed friday from the barn, and taking to the maintance area for service on a door lock. 1 team searched Friday night, and determined it was the tower. Altho tower had no stuck mikes. The hits continued. Saturday another team went out to DIA and continued working the signal, and located it to the command post vechile. Radio was turned off and service log was entered.
Teams: n0psr, and kc0jbv
Lessons Learned:

August 03, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: SAR-SAT
CAP SARSAT hits near FTG.
Located: FTG bearings pointed towards DIA. Arrived at DIA with carrier only signal at 1000 m-V at general Aviation gate. Went to United hangar to get back bearing. Located on Operations vehicle at DIA by N0PSR on 8/4.
Teams: KC0JBV, N0PSR
Lessons Learned: It is always good to get a second opinion.

August 01, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor alerted at 09:07:02.
Located: Departed work at 09:17 wit ELT aquired. Found and off at Precision Aviation maintenance Hangar. Activated by Maintenance changing ELT battery.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

July 18, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Civil Air Patrol SAR-SAT
Betty Berger was called by AFRCC around 0830 for SARSAT hits on 121.5 north of DIA. KC0JBV paged FREDF, Betty alerted CAP. 3 SARSAT hits but DIA reported negative as did all airborne reports. No FREDF monitors alerted.
Located: CAP aircraft reported no signal on 121.5 or 243.0 right up to northern edge of Class B (DIA) airspace. K0LPM picked up strong carrier signal a couple miles south of DIA. Signal was DF'd to north end of cargo ramp and still indicating north. DIA ops escorted ground units to Concourse B (middle concourse). Signal terminated shortly after that, while teams were west of concourse to get a back bearing.
Teams: K0LPM, Blue Mesa 139 (Alex Toussaint), KC0JBV as coordinator from the office
Lessons Learned: DIA ops were great to work with. They took us anywhere we needed to go to get a bearing. When signal appeared to be coming from concourse B, where the ground control tower is, Ops called the tower (again) and reported back that there had been problems on the ground control frequency 127.5 that morning. Techs had been working on the airport radios. FAA was also working on some navaids. Given the strength of the signal, and that it terminated after both towers, ops personnel, radio techs and the FAA were notified and could see the teams on the ground, it was most likely an airport ground control radio on the wrong channel.

July 14, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA alerted on an elt about 6am. Then went away. Same elt alerted a few hours later, and again went away. About 11 am, The same elt alerted, this time said running....
Located: ELT located on aircraft. After beacon was secure, about 15 minutes later, the beacon reactivated. Good thing they were still there...
Teams: N0ZEE.
Lessons Learned:

July 13, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Eldorado alerted on an fast-sweep elt. It appeared to be airborne, but BJC was the only local monitor hearing it. While checking other monitors, a slow sweep elt was heard at Longmont on 243 only.
Located: Located in a hanger on an aircraft that was working on the airworthy certificate.
Teams: N0NIM, N0TAO, N0PSR, N0ERS, KC0BJV, N0ZEE.
Lessons Learned:

July 11, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
BJC monitor alerted on and off, in short intervals, for a while.
Located: King Air in a hanger being worked on by Stevens Aviation.
Teams: N0PYQ
Lessons Learned:

July 11, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Pager alerted at 13:24 for APA
Located: Located at Precision Aviation (Jet Center West) at APA, Non-Distress activated by maintenance. Off at 13:49
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

July 06, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information:
ELT heard on Eldorado. Then it stopped. A few minutes later it started again. One station was hearing a weak signal to the N-east (parkland). This station was in boulder.
Located: Parkland was negative. Teams slowly worked towards boulder to try and locate the signal. A couple of teams picked up the signal, east again.... There were a couple of teams in route from the south and they were sent to the check a few airports on the east side of town. One got to the area of van air, and picked up the signal. Teams started to head that way. They also matched the bearing from the teams in bouler that were hearing the signal.
Teams: KCØJMT, KCØFND, KCØJBV, NØNIM, NØJJH, NØSBG, NØZEE NØPSR, KBØHKY, NØKKZ, N0PYQ
Lessons Learned: RF Pooling from the mountains can be fun!

June 27, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Buckley Air force Base
Originally alerted at 10:37Hrs and then again at approximately 11:37 hrs. Was being heard by Eldarado and Buckly on 121.5 and on 243.0 only at Buckley
Located: ELT was on the Airlife chopper at Medical Center of Aurora North.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JMT
Lessons Learned: Don't forget to check hospitals on the way by them!

June 23, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
2V2 Monitor alerted at 1154. Page was sent about 1215. Note: EAA Fly in at 2V2.
Located: Arrived about 1245 at 2V2. Signal clear at entrance. Parked and at request of CAP Cadet leader took Cadets in to try DFing. ELT was located in an RV4 and turned off at 1331. It took a while to locate owner.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV, KA0ZAS, Maybe some others too.
Lessons Learned: Maybe next year FREDF should open a booth and monitor ELTS.

June 22, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
1703 BJC monitor alerted.
Located: 1808 ELT was confirmed at T-Hangar at BJC. Airport Operations opened hangar to confirm aircraft in hangar. Aircraft was a USFS Cessna 206. At 2130 ELT still running in hangar. 6/23 1045 ELT was confirmed off at T-Hangar. Incident was closed
Teams: N0PSR, KC0JBV, N0ZEE
Lessons Learned: Sunset is a great time to visit the tower on a slow night.

June 22, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Alerted at 00:12. Attempted contact of airport manager via direct line (that K0FCC has) and through city dispatch. All routes failed. Left sticker on door and called AFRCC to advise them. Left at 13:25. Very odd reflections. From the southern side of the airport I was getting a signal from the south west, but the hangar I pinned it down two, 22F, was north west of that location. Very odd. There was only one sweep rate so......???
Located: Hangar 22F
Teams: K0FCC to 2v2 with N0JJH running pagers and keeping K0FCC awake. Also heard N0PSR and one other but didn't catch the callsign.
Lessons Learned: The locking mechanisms in the hangar doors act like an antenna. You can hold the lper unit, w/o antenna, up to the drum of the lock and it will act as an antenna inside the hangar. With so many reflections this was the only way I could be absolutely certain I had the correct hangar.

June 20, 2001


Other
Alert information: Front Range Airport
2115 Request for response to FTG due to hail damage and power failures.
Located: 2 Hams responded to Aurora Air Park and to FTG to verify that there were no ELTs running. FTG had 6 inches hail on the ground at 10PM and several aircraft, cars, and buildings damaged by wind and hail. No ELTs running.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

June 18, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
3 Alerts 1)10:07, 2)14:24, 3)15:16 On the third alert Monitor was still picking up the ELT.
Located: While driving to APA ELT terminated suddenly at 15:26L, No Joy
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

June 11, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: TRI-County (ERIE) Airport
ELT heard at 48V. started at aproximatley 10 A.M. ELT signal lost by rapid termination once teams arrived at airport
Located:
Teams: N0NIM,N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

May 30, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 0943. 09:58 paged FREDF enroute to APA (KC0JBV) 10:30 located at TAC Air in Military Jet with insterment panel removed. Workmen were aware ELT was running but did not know which of 4 jets was running.
Located: Located with directional equipment inside hangar. Confirmed with signal strength.
Teams: KC0JBV, BM119
Lessons Learned: One jet in 4 they didn't need to be rocket scientists to figure that one out.

June 09, 2001


Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
2V2 alerted around 2pm. Send stand down page at 2:11pm.
Located: Crashed tail-dragger on runway at 2V2. No injuries. Student pilot botched landing. Prop, Cowling & Engine Cover destroyed. Visible engine damage.
Teams: K0FCC with KC0JBV monitoring.
Lessons Learned: Tail draggers are hard to land for students.

June 05, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Pager went off @ 17:37 and deactived at 17:50
Located: a rental c-172 at Air West. Set off due to hard landing.
Teams: K0FCC, with KC0JBV & N0PSR standing by for support if needed
Lessons Learned:

May 15, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Operations called about 1759, CAP alerted on SARSAT hit, CAP Parker monitor alerted in a short time frame.
Located: Located at APA (same place as 5/6 ELTs), different aircraft, Metroliner
Teams: KA0NAS, N0ZEE, KC0JMB, N0PSR, BM-139, BM-217, KC0JBV (Ops)
Lessons Learned: APA Ops has a new pager number. (Contact KC0JBV for information)

May 07, 2001


Other
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor and page alerted about 0900
Located: ELT terminated suddenly while enroute. No information on cause.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

May 06, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
2032 KC0JBV Departed from home after monitor alert and page at APA
Located: 2115 ELT was located by KC0JMB (J Alsum). 2145 ELT was turned off by local A&E.
Teams: KC0JMB, KA0ZAS, N0ZEE, KC0JBV, N0ERS, N0PSR
Lessons Learned: Knock on hangar doors (near large maintenance areas) and A&Es are easier to locate than owners on late Sunday evenings

May 05, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
1120 APA monitor alerted and paged
Located: 1205 Located at APA N66906 activated during maintenance
Teams: N0PSR, N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

May 02, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 10:29. KC0JBV could hear ELT on DF at parking lot near office.
Located: Found ELT running on PA-44 at Precision (Jet Center West) where A&E just changed battery. Off at 10:53. A&E had some fun getting ELT Reset.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

April 14, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Located: Aircraft located at a specific hangar. Neighoring hanger-mates reported that owner was not at hangar on this day. ELT start at 16:31 and continued for several hours. Tried to reach the owner of the hangar but he had no valid phone number on file. ELT was either deactivated by owner or self-terminated. Had to involve the airport manager and several FBO's to try and locate both the data for the hangar owner as well as if any keys were on file to inspect the hangar. Was unable to gain access. Airport Manager was very thankful for the assistance because he knew AFRCC would call him (and they did at 18:30). Great PR.
Teams: K0FCC, KC0JBV stood by as extra resource
Lessons Learned:

April 26, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
Located: On a Beachcraft, doing a preflight.
Teams: n0psr
Lessons Learned:

April 11, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
Located: In a hanger, on an Cessna 177-RG. Mechanic took out of aircraft for service and tossed it onto table. No antenna attached.
Teams: n0psr, n0zee, kc0jmt
Lessons Learned:

April 10, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Strong into 2V2 but heard on Eldorado as well.
Located: First row of hangers west of Air West. Hanager #3. Air West Owner opened hangar and deactivated. Owner of A/C not there but was working on the plane. Light motion sets of ELT. Air West owner said he'd advice A/C Owner
Teams: K0FCC, KC0ELV with initial coordination by N0ZEE.
Lessons Learned: Need Stickers or Signs to leave that says "Your ELT was deactivated by Search & Rescue. Please inspect ELT prior to flight." or something similar.

April 05, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 14:29L at APA.
Located: Had ELT at work (2 miles N). Followed to airport. ELT seemed to circle (airborne??). Then ceased while working the ramp. My guess was that it was on the taxi way or runway.
Teams: KC0JBV, N0ZEE, Another called me but I didn't write down the Call sign
Lessons Learned:

March 09, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information:
Monitor alerted at BJC about 1430.
Located: At 1730 ELT was still running. 1813L Found a different hangar than CAP and confirmed with N0PSR. Dropped by 0730 3/10 to confirm same ELT was still running. ELT was turned off by Owner 1230 next day (3/10/2001).
Teams: BM139, KC0JBV, N0PSR
Lessons Learned: Having somebody confirm your location is a warm happy feeling. Note: Remember to tag hangar so owner can confirm ELT off.

March 15, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: TRI-County (ERIE) Airport
Monitor alerted at 1755 ceased and alerted again at 1815.
Located: DF pointed to East side of ramp beyond aircraft. Found at private residence. Battery was just changed.
Teams: KC0JBV, N0ZEE, N0NIM, N0PSR
Lessons Learned:

March 20, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at APA 1403L. I had ELT from parking lot at work.
Located: Narrowed to Hangar 9 TAC Air and ELT ceased while working to east side of hangar.
Teams: KC0JBV, Jim Alsum, N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

April 02, 2001


Other
Alert information:
Intermittent Elt being heard in Eldarado at approximatly 2100hrs. ELT was being heard by DIA Operations.
Located: ELT not located due to loss of signal.
Teams: N0NIM, N0ZEE, KC0JBV, NOPSR, KB0HKY, N0ERS, K0LPM, N0JJH,
Lessons Learned:

April 02, 2001


Other
Alert information:
Intermittent Elt being heard in Eldarado at approximatly 2100hrs. ELT was being heard by DIA Operations.
Located: ELT not located due to loss of signa.
Teams: N0NIM, N0ZEE, KC0JBV, NOPSR, KB0HKY, N0ERS, K0LPM, N0JJH,
Lessons Learned:

April 04, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
Noticed ELT Altering at 0615hrs Was originally alerting only on BJC.
Located: Found in the Jefco Jet Center Paint Facility on an aircraft that was being stripped of its paint. Found initially by signal strength. Antenna was removed to keep ELT from transmitting very far. The ELT was malfunctioning and could not be turned off.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV, N0PSR
Lessons Learned: This ELT just wonldn't turn off. When in off possition it was still going. When in the On possition it would start sweeping faster. Due to this fact I was not trusting my equipment as it had showed two different sweep rates when the ELT was on verses "off".

April 01, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Started hearing ELT at approximatly 1015hrs.
Located: ELT found on a Cesna Skyhawk that had been out on a training flight. Was just South of the Denver Jet Center East.
Teams: N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

March 01, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor alerted shortly after midnight.
Located: On a Bell 222 helicopter, N72442, in the Air Methods hangar at the north end of Centennial. The interior was gutted for installation of a new GPS and audio system. The mechanics said they weren't working in the tail near the ELT. The instrument panel was torn apart, so a remote switch activation is suspect.
Teams: K0LPM, N0UUY (Blue Mesa 171) also responded. N0ZEE and KB0HKY monitored from home.
Lessons Learned:

February 28, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport Elt started at Centenial at approximately 1716hrs. I responded from Inverness just west of the airport.
Located: Located on a skyhawk just south of the Denver Jet Center East. Was contacted quickly by an employee of the Jet center who got the key and deactivated it at 1750hrs.
Teams: N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

February 28, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport PIREP lateral shimmy upon landing causing accidental ELT activation. PIC deactivated upon my arrival.
Located: Air West Ramp
Teams: K0FCC
Lessons Learned:

February 22, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Front Range Airport Becon started at approximately 1640hrs alterting on the FTG monitor only. I responded from I-225 and Cherry Creek Dam. Arrived at FTG at approximately 1740. Loceted becon using body sheilding and signal strength indications. Signal was very strong. Becon was deactivated at 1810hrs by airport personel.
Located: In hanger 6E on the south end of the airport. It was a winduster hanger in row 43. Hanger and aircraft was owned by Flight Training Center. The becon was on one of three aircraft in the hanger.
Teams: N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

February 22, 2001


Other
Alert information: Civil Air Patrol SAR-SAT Cap called with a request for help. Sar Sat hits at 40-16.4/104-41.
Located: While searching the area, nothing was heard, for several hours. All the airports in the area were checked, but heard nothing. But the sar-sat hits continued. We found powerlines that were producing a very high amount of rf noise.... The CAP aircraft herd nothing, except powerline noise....? The hits continued. The following day, sar sat hits were reported again, this time further north for the last location. 1 cap team checked the area and reported powerline noise at 100 uvolts. On his way home, he stopped by the airport and found a weak carrier only elt. Now the only question left is was this elt the source from the start or something new on the following day.
Teams: Jay H, Kent R, Mike F. cap: bm50, bm219, bm226, 1 airplane
Lessons Learned:

Lat/Long Plots:

February 13, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: SAR-SATCAP called asking for help in locating and turning off an ELT at DIA active since approx 0330. We were called at 0613, and had 2 teams on the road at 0630 N0NIM, and N0QPT
Located: Both teams heard the ETL on the ground as they approached DIA, aprox 1 minute after hearing the signal on the ground, the ELT became airborn. Sudden increase in signal strength, BKF, BJC, monitors alterting, reports of an ELT being heard on the ground in Aurora, Denver, Boulder. If flew south, turn west then travel north of our position at DIA cargo area. Appro 15 min into the flight rapid termanation of the siginal, on again then off. Assumed the flight crew figured it out.
Teams: N0NIM, N0QPT
Lessons Learned: was assumed non-distress by CAP, info held until later in the morning when teams awake. Did not have enough time to travel, locate, and disable before departure.N
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February 09, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Located: NW Hangars, 1 row east of the jump facility. Pilot was working on his aircraft and accidently set off the ELT. EB6. Pilot was leaving the hangar and saw me with the forks walking toward him. He ran back inside and deactivated the beacon prior to our initial contact.
Teams: K0FCC
Lessons Learned: A combination of strong reflections, a helicopter parked smack dab in the taxiway/road and several A/C on the ramp with their engines pulled made for an interesting hunt. When the signal was blocked by 1 stand-alone hangar the reflections made one null spot where I should have had a clear signal. Very interesting.

January 16, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial AirportHam monitor alerted 10:54 at APA. I departed work with ELT aquired at 10:56. Narrowed the area by signal strength to Precision.
Located: On a bench at Precision and off (finally at 11:26). Mechanic was testing near AM radio (noted that it was off) and didn't know ELT was running. There was a problem with resetting the ELT. Had changed the battery.
Teams: JBC with help from FCC (paging), Note: MHU and FCC helped with paging yesterday too.
Lessons Learned: DFing in a hangar is not any easier when a person is walking around with the ELT.

January 15, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial AirportHam Monitor alerted 09:42L. I departed work at 09:55L. At 10:00 I departed the vehicle at Jet Center East to work the ELT.
Located: ELT was located in the hangar at Duncan Avionics on a Beech Duke N6641Z. Technicians were testing the ELT without a dummy load on the antenna.
Teams: Form alert to off 28 minutes.
Lessons Learned: Most of this was getting access to the hangar. I told them what I was there for and they went right to the plane and turned it off.

January 10, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information:
Located: Rapid signal termination while looking at boulder
Teams: k0fcc
Lessons Learned:

January 09, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
Located: Rapid termination of ELT on BJC
Teams: N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

January 08, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: TRI-County (ERIE) AirportEldorado alerted on ELT. Cap station in boulder was hearing it well. The went to boulder airport, and lost the signal. After about 35 minutes, Longmont started to alert on the ELT. After working towards boulder and working signals that didn't make sence.
Located: One team worked out of boulder to confirm we were not working reflections, a second went further into boulder canyon area, and started to get better signal strength. Located in boulder near 5th and araphaoe. Owner took elt out of aircraft and took home to change batterys.
Teams: KC0JBV, K0FCC, N0PSR. M/C was N0MHU
Lessons Learned: Sometimes was seems to be a reflection is not!

January 08, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information:Eldorado alerted on a second ELT. While checking the monitors APA heard a slow, weak sweep. Not sure what it was. KC0JBV went to APA to verify what was beening heard.
Located: ELT Located on aircraft in a hanger with no antenna attached.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:

January 07, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information:11:50 am, Eldorado alerted twice. After checking local monitors, we called DIA, they were hearing the signal
Located: Located on a hawker, that had to make an emergency landing at dia. Pilot deactivated ELT
Teams: N0MHU, N0JBV, N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:

January 06, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: SAR-SATSingle pass from SAR SAT @ 40 32.9/104 25.1 Puts it in Greely/FT Collins area.
Located: In a hanger on a new aircraft. Apparently the switch had a broken wire, and would not reset. - Greeley-Weld County Off at 1600 local
Teams: N0ERS, and KC0FNE
Lessons Learned:

January 05, 2001


Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County AirportActivation approx 1530
Located: Non-distress ELT located at BJC in T-Hanger area hangar 1 north 1 east of Windsong Aviation on mid-size T-tail twin being worked on by maintenance. Off approx 1705. the 1.5 hours was all travel time for the team caught in Friday rush hours traffic. Thanks to all who help out!
Teams: Jay N0NIM, Barry N0ZEE, Joe K0FCC and Oksana KC0ELV, JJ N0JJH, Leonard KC0JBV, Kent N0PSR
Lessons Learned: 1. We have been ask not to drive onto the tarmac or back in the T hangar area. The gates are down but open up when you drive up. JJ will try to find out what will be required to drive/ acess the areas that we need to. 2. Traffic in the Denver area duirng the day is miserable 1.5 hours to get from 1-25 and Arapahoe to BJC. 3. New restaurant at Denver Air @ BJC, food not to bad, a bit pricy for main course, sandwiches $5 - $8, good service. The back of the menu has a circle inside the circle it is printed "Quality, Service, Price, pick 2" odd.

Janurary 01, 2001

Non-Distress
Alert information:    Received call with sar sat info, positivies, and negativies.  Deployed after 2nd positive, after 2 negs...  Team deployed at 17:16

Located: CAP launched Aircraft, but didn't hear anything in sar sat merge area.  Scott heard signal first, and fredf ground crews located the area.
Once authorities arrvied on scene, we locaed the beacon near the trash compactor at legacy apartments at cherry creek.  It was in a box, laying on the ground, with a bunch of trash bags.   ELT turned off at 19:48

Teams: Fredf: Ed B.  Ed W. Kent R. Robbi P. Berry M. Scott B.
CAP:  There were several cap teams that showed up once the area of interest was announced.

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