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This site aims to provide an array of communications information, particularly information relevant to the Denver Metro area. Breaking news stories from the Metro Area are updated in real time.
You will find information on monitoring public safety agencies, amateur radio information, frequencies and more.

With its wide variety of terrain, weather and radio systems, Denver can be a fun and challenging environment for monitoring and amateur radio communications. The state of Colorado has implemented a Project 25 Digital Trunked Radio System, and many counties and municipalities have adopted and are using the P25 system. Several agencies in the Denver Metro area maintain their own EDACS systems and do not operate on the DTRS system. You will find information on all these systems on this site.

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Breaking News

ECalert El Jebel wildfire
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Yuma County Accident, as paged
DATE: 9-04-08 TIME: 8:17 A.M. LOCATION: Colorado 34 at The intersection of Yuma County Road "H" approximately 2 miles east of Yuma, CO. On 9-4-08 Troopers have responded to the intersection of Colorado 34 and Yuma County Road "H". Preliminary reports have indicated that a Yuma County School...

Democratic National Convention - Sticky News

The Democratic National Convention officially kicks off tomorrow, however protest events began today with a rally at the State Capitol consisting of about 1,000 protesters. The crowd paraded from the Capitol to the Pepsi center. There were reports of groups of people with gas masks, armed with zipties and batteries, near 18th and Tremont. Reports were also heard, at one point, of protesters taking the entrance to the Pepsi Center briefly. Stay tuned here for more information.

Breaking News Will Be Posted Below

Monday 8/25/08 11:00am: West Metro Fire HazMat Situation
WM Engine 4, Hazmat 5, Tower 3, Medic 6, Sam 1, District 1, PIO 2, dispatched to Alameda and Rooney Road for a 55 gallon drum of human waste. Drum reportedly inverted, purposefully placed. Now transporting one for symptoms. O/F: WM800 TAC3, online

Monday 8/25/08 1900 Hours: Large Unruly Crowd Moves Toward the Mall - Riot Units Encircling
14th and Bannock. Officers attempting to stop an unscheduled parade. Loud chanting heard over the radio. Reportedly making arrests. Crowd growing Unruly.

O/F: DPD 12-004 and FPS 400 P25 / Fed Police --- Primary is on DPD TG 12-004 --- I don't know the Alpha because I've got it on a wildcard.

U/D: Crowd Dispersed - running north toward the mall and through the park. Air One is tracking. Skirmish line formed headed through the park. Reports of 500 or more headed towards mall @ 15th and Court.

Patrol reporting crowd stopped at 15th and Court. Line established. Force 400 moving in behind them.

U/D: 1915 - Sounds like less than lethal being fired. Force 33 moving in from 17th and Tremont.

Calling for more Response units ... crowd is flanking Force Units. Now at 15th and Cleveland. Force 55 moving in from 15th and Court.

U/D 1925 - Reporting rioters with feces. Crowd completely surrounded at 15th and Cleveland. DPD is reporting that they are going to keep crowd surrounded, ID and Clear every single member of the crowd. Requesting Mass Arrest Unit.

They are actually going to ID every single person.

U/D 1935 Confirming that crowd has bags of feces. Watching the Denverpost footage seems to show that the teams did a great job shutting this thing down. U/D Medical staging at 14th and Court for any EMS needed.

U/D 1945 : Reporting members of the "Black Bloc" performing counter surveillance on PD positions -- subjects equipped with radios. (Black Bloc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc)
U/D 1957 - Federal Police advising that protesters are gathering behind Union Station putting on Gas Masks. O/F : Federal Protective Services / FPS POLICE -- More Feds inbound from Lakewood.
Now also reporting 18th and Arapahoe.
U/D 2016 - Units standing down at Union Station.

Cleveland command stating they will be making 40-50 arrests. Now releasing large part of the crowd.
Chief is asking Air One to get back airborne ASAP -- Air One heading to Civic Center Park to monitor the group being released. Light on.

U/D: 2036 Reporting a suspicious package at 16th and Cleveland. (Package checks clear)

U/D: 2109 Reports of Black Bloc organizing and planning "something" at or between 16 - 18th and Market at 2130

U/D: 2146 Reporting that protesters are heading towards 15th and Market. Another suspicious package. Shutting down 16th and Blake so Bomb Sqaud can X-Ray package.

Wednesday 8/27/08 1615: Rage Against the Machine show and Unplanned March
The Rage concert let out at the The Rage concert let out at the Coliseum at 3:00pm. The entire gathering is marching towards the Pepsi Center. Organizers say a sit-in is planned at the Pepsi Center and are prepared for arrest.
Numbers are approximately 3,000. Brighton Blvd ramps closed at this time. Units are mobilizing, staged and in full riot gear. Air One is up. Units preparing for marchers in downtown.

O/F: Denver 800 -- District 2 -- Expect District 6 and District 1 Metro SWAT A -- some traffic on NARC2 as well. Patching 1 and 2 now.

U/D: 1620 Crowd is estimated at 4,000 - Crossing 29th and Brighton. Approaching underpass -- headed down Broadway.

U/D: 1630 Route will be down Broadway to Arapahoe to Speer to the Pepsi Center. Reports of FBI agents masking up. Command 7 saying allowing marchers to Pepsi PDA. (Freedom Cage) 30 Riot Units unloaded at 15th and Market.

U/D: 1640 Command reporting parties on bicycles carrying black flags, all with backpacks shadowing the parade route. Reporting now that marchers are arming themselves with rocks.

U/D: 1700 Moving through 20th and Arapahoe.

U/D: 1719 Hotel units now going on lockdown.

admin on August 24 2008 23:03:19 ·

Uniden Announces Firmware Updates - With ESK Support

Well, it's official. Uniden has announced that they will release firmware upgrades to their digital scanners that allows tracking and monitoring of analog EDACS ESK systems. Supposedly, the 396 and 996 will be the first to receive the updates, and Uniden states that they will not be charging customers for this update.

The 396 and 996 are scheduled to see firmware updates on September 30, 2008 with the rest of the scanners updating by early 2009. Judging by what we've seen in the past from Uniden, we won't see an upgrade anytime remotely close to September 30. If I had to guess, I'd say Thanksgiving at the earliest. Regardles, it's nice that Uniden is finally responding to their customers.
See the announcement HERE.

admin on August 25 2008 22:42:59 ·

Douglas County Tornadoes

A total of 4 tornadoes wreaked havoc across Douglas County this afternoon. A line of severe storms dropped several rope tornadoes on the plains, causing only minor damage to some outbuildings and homes. There were no injuries reported. Several local news agencies captured High Definition video of the twisters. NBC Affiliate 9News has a neat slideshow with lots of images.

I captured some radar images of the event using my copy of GRLevel3, which showed strong rotation and large hail in the affected areas. Click the image to the left to view the radar images. With 2 unprecedented tornadoes reported yesterday in Park County, this weekends weather made for an unusual late august weekend.

admin on August 25 2008 04:23:38 ·

Democratic National Convention

The DNC starts Sunday here in Denver, and those of us that monitor are going to have plenty to keep our ears happy for the next 5 days.

Security has been seriously beefed up at the Fed Center ... The FPS (Federal Protective Services - Department of Homeland Security) talkgroups have been unusually busy with all kinds of chatter in the last couple of days. See the list below for more information. The system should be programmed as Motorola APCO25 CAI. Control channels in the list below are labeled with a (c) and alternate control channels with an (a)

The Denver Area FPS Motorola APCO25 System is as follows:

SITES
001 Site 1 406.50000(a) 406.97500(a) 408.07500(a) 409.40000 410.55000(a) 410.80000(c)
002 Site 2 406.77500(c) 407.12500(a) 407.81250(a) 408.42500(a) 408.77500
003 Site 3 406.98750(c) 408.27500(a) 409.02500(a) 410.17500(a) 410.67500
004 Site 4 407.00000(a) 408.45000(c) 410.65000(a) 410.90000

TALKGROUPS
4400 113 D FPS POLICE Federal Protective Police Service Law Tac
4416 114 D FPS POLICE Federal Protective Police Service Law Tac
4448 116 D TRAINING Training Other
7584 1da D LAW CH-1 Law Enforcement Channel-1 Law Tac
7600 1db D LAW CH-2 Law enforcement Channel-2 Law Tac
7808 1e8 D FIRE CH-1 Fire Department Channel-1 Fire-Tac
7824 1e9 D FIRE CH-2 Fire Department Channel-2 Fire-Tac
7856 1eb D FIRE PAGING Fire Paging Fire-Tac
11296 2c2 D BASE MAINTCE Base Maintenance Other
12480 30c D CNTRL CR-1 Control CR-1 Other

admin on August 23 2008 06:10:46 ·

Denver goes ESK

Well, after much testing and waiting, Denver finally made the switch to ESK this morning at 07:30. Various complaints could be heard on different talkgroups about problems with the switch.

Overall, however, the transition appears to have taken place without causing any major disruptions in service.

As with Lakewood, the only way to monitor the Denver Public Safety system at this time is by purchasing a GRE PSR-500 or PSR-600 scanner. Uniden has been unusually quiet about any new firmware updates, and my personal opinion is that they will not release an update anytime in the near future.
I would guess that you will see a new Uniden scanner before you see an upgrade that allows users to monitor ESK systems without using SCAT.

Denver cut it close with the DNC starting Sunday, but PSR owners are sure to have plenty to listen to with the chaos that is certain to ensue in the coming week. Stay tuned for more information on Democratic National Convention information and updates on the ESK situation.

**Update 00:42 8/24/08**
Denver EMS appears to be using Mutual Aid Channel GREEN 1 tonight. Seems like they are having a problem with the ESK system.

**Update 2 01:31 8/24/08**
I just learned from another forum that all local EMS traffic will be using GREEN 1 during the DNC.

admin on August 23 2008 05:59:14 ·

39 States and 2 Countries in 2 Weeks

**Update to this Story**
39 States and 2 countries in about 2 weeks. Check the map for details! Tomas, in Paraguay, was by far the coolest contact ... this was on SSB on 17 Meters.

View Larger Map

admin on August 11 2008 03:37:11 ·

My First Day of HF on the Ham Bands

Last Saturday I went and passed my General exam so that I could begin operating on the HF bands. I traded my Icom 2200-H for a Kenwood TS-440S HF radio, which finally came via UPS today. I spent a good part of the week trying to figure out how to string a G5RV Jr Dipole in my tiny attic. Frustrated, I finally settled on a "Z" shape, strung throughout the attic. I was seriously starting to doubt whether or not this configuration was going to work for me.
Well, much to my surprise, I've managed to make several contacts tonight on the HF bands!!! WOOT!!! I am absolutely amazed that this radio, with the antenna configuration I chose, is getting out the way it is! On a measly 100 Watts! Here are the contacts I've made in the last 2 hours on 40 meters:

KE7NC0 in Reno Nevada which is 1000 miles from home.
K0DT in Colfax IA which is 750 miles from home.
W9WPV in Pensacola FL, which is 1500 miles from home
N5ITE in Black Rock AR, which is 900 miles from home.

admin on August 09 2008 05:13:45 ·

Green Mountain Wildfire

Lightning sparked a large wildfire on Green Mountain today. The fire quickly exploded to approximately 100 acres and threatened several large homes. Crews from West Metro Fire, Wheat Ridge Fire, Fairmount Fire, Evergreen Fire, Pleasant View Fire and Forest Service Firefighters fought for more than 5 hours to bring the blaze under control.

The fire was 100% contained at about 6:30 PM. Smoke from the fire spread eastward across the metro area and was visible for miles. No injuries were reported and only minor damage was reported to two homes.

admin on August 05 2008 02:31:08 ·

Lakewood Child Stuck in Car Window

A small child was found unconscious, not breathing, stuck in a car window this afternoon. Employees at Aspen Tires, on the corner of Jewell and Kipling, pulled the child from the car and performed CPR until medics arrived.

The child was transported to Saint Anthony's Central hospital, but was later transported to Children's hospital.
Investigators were on scene piecing together the events that led to the child becoming stuck. Agents from the Lakewood Police Department accompanied the family to the hospital and continued their investigation both at the scene and at Childrens hospital. The condition of the child is not known at this time.

admin on July 31 2008 03:03:43 ·

Lakewood Bank Robbery

Lakewood Police and the Jefferson County Sheriffs department are on the scene of a bank robbery at Belleview and Kipling in Lakewood.
Witnesses tell authorities that shots were fired inside the bank and that at least one suspect escaped from the bank with a stolen bank employee vehicle.
The vehicle was recovered north of Belleview.

Jefferson County Sheriffs deputies are attempting to track the suspect with K9's and Lakewood Police have setup an extensive perimeter to attempt apprehension of the suspect.
A lot of details remain unknown, I will post more as I get more information.

admin on July 23 2008 16:36:54 ·

Lakewood Wildland Fire

On Monday evening, a wildland fire erupted near Alaska Place and Fig Way in Lakewood. 10 acres rapidly went up in smoke in the Hayden Green Mountain park greenbelt.
Several homes were briefly threatened by the fire, but firefighters and homeowners were able to extinguish the flames before any serious damage was done.

admin on July 22 2008 21:29:24 ·

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