WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.620 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:02.620 --> 00:00:06.000 by Tower Electronics. For connectors, cables, 00:00:06.219 --> 00:00:12.880 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit pl -259 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:17.620 .com. And by ICOM, heard it, worked it, logged 00:00:17.620 --> 00:00:22.839 it. Visit www .icomamerica .com slash amateur 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:31.980 for more information about ICOM radios. Here 00:00:31.980 --> 00:00:37.960 we go, welcome to Amtopi, call in, let's talk, 00:00:38.219 --> 00:00:59.619 Neil's you're gone. Hey, good evening, everyone. 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.780 It's time for HamTalk Live. It's episode number 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:09.980 246, Comm Academy 2021 Online, recorded live 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:14.760 on Thursday, February 11th, 2021. I'm your host, 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:19.219 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this 00:01:19.219 --> 00:01:21.680 episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're joined 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:28.420 by Tim Helming, WT1IM. He's the public information 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:30.760 officer of the Calm Academy and will take your 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.939 calls live a little later in the show. Last week, 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.420 Jack Dominick was here from the National Voice 00:01:37.420 --> 00:01:40.359 of America Museum of Broadcasting to talk about 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.920 some of their new virtual tours that are available 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.579 on their website at voamuseum .org. So check 00:01:46.579 --> 00:01:49.400 that out. And if you missed that show, you can 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:53.719 listen anytime at hamptalklive .com or on your 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.989 favorite podcast app. And we're also available 00:01:57.989 --> 00:02:02.170 over on YouTube as well. And you can catch the 00:02:02.170 --> 00:02:06.810 rebroadcast of HamTalk Live every Saturday afternoon, 00:02:07.469 --> 00:02:12.550 about 3 .30 p .m. Eastern Time on WTWW. That's 00:02:12.550 --> 00:02:17.250 5085 a .m. out of the Nashville, Tennessee area. 00:02:17.610 --> 00:02:24.030 Again, that's 5085 AM 5 .085 and it's Saturday 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:26.650 afternoons. All right, well a couple of things 00:02:26.650 --> 00:02:31.930 coming up. The Orlando Hamcation Special Edition, 00:02:32.469 --> 00:02:37.090 or as I like to call it, Hamcation SE, is coming 00:02:37.090 --> 00:02:41.610 up this weekend and the webinars are from 10 00:02:41.610 --> 00:02:46.310 AM to 4 PM Eastern Time. hamcation .com you need 00:02:46.310 --> 00:02:49.009 to sign up for those in advance so make sure 00:02:49.009 --> 00:02:52.590 you do that make sure they don't fill up and 00:02:52.590 --> 00:02:57.229 then the QSO party is going to take place from 00:02:57.229 --> 00:03:03.189 10 a .m. to 10 p .m. on Saturday only so Saturday 00:03:03.189 --> 00:03:07.830 is the QSO party and then webinars 10 to 4 on 00:03:07.830 --> 00:03:10.770 both Saturday and Sunday but if you want to get 00:03:10.770 --> 00:03:14.250 on the QSO party It's 10 a .m. to 10 p .m. Eastern 00:03:14.250 --> 00:03:17.669 on Saturday, and there's a string of one -by 00:03:17.669 --> 00:03:21.530 -one call signs that I noticed just came out 00:03:21.530 --> 00:03:26.870 in the AR letter a few hours ago, and some more 00:03:26.870 --> 00:03:28.909 information, so make sure you check that out 00:03:28.909 --> 00:03:33.789 at hamcation .com. Also, coming up a little bit 00:03:33.789 --> 00:03:37.389 later in March, the 13th and 14th, is the QSO 00:03:37.389 --> 00:03:40.969 Today Virtual Ham Expo. Early bird tickets are 00:03:40.969 --> 00:03:44.930 $10 and they're doing air meet now which lets 00:03:44.930 --> 00:03:47.689 you do some virtual chatting so there's some 00:03:47.689 --> 00:03:50.729 hallway meetups and you can actually get some 00:03:50.729 --> 00:03:54.870 video with some of the exhibitors and take orders 00:03:54.870 --> 00:03:58.770 and answer questions and see demos and that kind 00:03:58.770 --> 00:04:02.330 of thing with the live video chat inside of the 00:04:02.330 --> 00:04:05.569 virtual ham expo. So make sure you check that 00:04:05.569 --> 00:04:08.810 out and get your questions ready to go for Tim. 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:12.659 If you're listening to us live on Thursday night, 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:17.300 you can give us a call after the interview by 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:25.079 calling 859 -982 -7373. We'll give out that number 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.100 again here in just a minute so you can write 00:04:27.100 --> 00:04:29.300 it down or punch it in and have it ready to go. 00:04:30.339 --> 00:04:33.959 It's not time to call just yet, but after we... 00:04:33.949 --> 00:04:36.750 Talk to Tim for a bit. We'll open up the phone 00:04:36.750 --> 00:04:38.730 lines and we'll announce that. But the phone 00:04:38.730 --> 00:04:42.170 number to call when that happens once again is 00:04:42.170 --> 00:04:49.470 859 -982 -7373. You can also tweet us. 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He currently operates nearly DC to 00:07:54.029 --> 00:07:57.470 daylight, HF through five gigahertz on the ham 00:07:57.470 --> 00:08:01.470 wan. And throughout his ham career, Tim has had 00:08:01.470 --> 00:08:04.540 an interest in Emergency Communications and Public 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:07.000 Service, in addition to operating on air, he 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.740 serves as the PIO for the Seattle Auxiliary Communication 00:08:11.740 --> 00:08:16.139 Service and Comm Academy. So Tim, welcome to 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:19.319 HamTalk Live. Hey, Neil, it's great to be here. 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.980 Thank you so much for having me on today. Well, 00:08:22.980 --> 00:08:25.800 thanks so much for contacting me and talking 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:31.139 about the Comm Academy. And I have a feeling 00:08:31.139 --> 00:08:33.960 that that you know a lot of people aren't really 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.940 familiar with this unless of course you're out 00:08:36.940 --> 00:08:39.940 in the pacific northwest because it's been an 00:08:39.940 --> 00:08:43.539 in -person thing and now you had some choices 00:08:43.539 --> 00:08:49.120 to make and you've got a chance to go online 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.200 and and that opens up the doors for a lot of 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.120 other things so so tell us a little bit about 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:00.019 the academy uh what would normally happen i guess 00:09:00.019 --> 00:09:07.299 um And what happens and and why? Yeah, so calm 00:09:07.299 --> 00:09:12.980 Academy This is our 20th year, but first year 00:09:12.980 --> 00:09:18.120 online and So from its inception and up through 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:25.000 You know last year it was a In -person event 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:29.860 in the Seattle area and it was like it like it 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:34.379 is this year two days of workshops and presentations 00:09:34.379 --> 00:09:38.919 and training and so forth. But you know up until 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:42.659 now it was a literal kind of classroom environment 00:09:42.659 --> 00:09:46.259 folks would show up and receive this training 00:09:46.259 --> 00:09:49.600 in person and we didn't have any kind of a streaming 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:55.039 or online component so. when the pandemic, of 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.139 course, pushed us away from being able to do 00:09:57.139 --> 00:10:01.509 anything in person. uh... we realized there was 00:10:01.509 --> 00:10:03.870 this opportunity to make lemonade out of the 00:10:03.870 --> 00:10:06.789 lemons and uh... put come academy online and 00:10:06.789 --> 00:10:09.730 make it a virtual conference and not only will 00:10:09.730 --> 00:10:12.870 the people who uh... who have shown up to the 00:10:12.870 --> 00:10:15.549 uh... come academy for years be able to still 00:10:15.549 --> 00:10:17.610 join but of course now we have the opportunity 00:10:17.610 --> 00:10:20.330 to open this up to a nation -wide or even a worldwide 00:10:20.330 --> 00:10:23.669 audience so uh... we are really excited about 00:10:23.669 --> 00:10:26.960 that and i can tell you that uh... For Comm Academies 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.799 in the future, it'll never be the same in a very 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:33.299 good way that once we are able to do Comm Academy 00:10:33.299 --> 00:10:37.240 in person again, we will also have an online 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.340 component so that people can join from wherever 00:10:40.340 --> 00:10:44.500 they might be. So we really feel like there was 00:10:44.500 --> 00:10:46.919 a silver lining to the disappointment of not 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:49.580 being able to meet in person. And so it will 00:10:49.580 --> 00:10:53.019 be an opportunity for anybody anywhere that's 00:10:53.019 --> 00:10:56.279 got an interest in emergency communication. and 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:59.960 preparation around various kinds of emergencies 00:10:59.960 --> 00:11:02.759 to participate, get a lot of knowledge, meet 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:06.460 a lot of other folks, and generally just get 00:11:06.460 --> 00:11:09.960 very steeped in various aspects of kind of structured 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.519 communications for a couple of days in April 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:20.220 this year. Well, necessity often pushes us to 00:11:20.220 --> 00:11:25.379 do new things. Uh, you know, this has been the 00:11:25.379 --> 00:11:28.220 year for it and, and we're just talking during 00:11:28.220 --> 00:11:31.399 the break, uh, you know, how much these, these 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:36.559 virtual conferences and, and, um, zoom technology 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.840 and all these different webinar, uh, platforms 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.820 and everything are just booming because there 00:11:42.820 --> 00:11:45.820 there's all this stuff going online when you 00:11:45.820 --> 00:11:49.720 can't do it otherwise. And, and so, you know, 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.519 I think that's. A good thing here because I know 00:11:54.519 --> 00:12:00.799 a lot of times I struggle with finding good emcom 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.639 Material for the show. I know there's an interest 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:09.720 in it But but sometimes I struggle to find experts 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.110 that you know can really relate when a lot of 00:12:13.110 --> 00:12:17.350 this is localized. And so everybody has their 00:12:17.350 --> 00:12:20.350 own specific criteria. Like, you know, if I tried 00:12:20.350 --> 00:12:23.009 to do something on weather spotting, well, you 00:12:23.009 --> 00:12:27.269 know, talking about tornadoes, you know, out 00:12:27.269 --> 00:12:31.429 in, you know, Yeah, like in the Seattle area, 00:12:31.750 --> 00:12:34.870 you know, yeah or Seattle, you know, yeah. Yeah, 00:12:34.870 --> 00:12:38.570 it doesn't doesn't really make sense and and 00:12:38.570 --> 00:12:43.330 even even different weather offices have different 00:12:43.330 --> 00:12:46.389 Call -in criteria. So if you're weather spotting, 00:12:46.389 --> 00:12:49.929 you know, some people only want you know quarter 00:12:49.929 --> 00:12:52.990 -size hail where other people they want an OP 00:12:52.990 --> 00:12:57.779 size hail and and so it's hard to to come up 00:12:57.779 --> 00:13:00.740 with something that that's that's you know worldwide 00:13:00.740 --> 00:13:05.000 or even nationwide um for that so this is giving 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.000 an opportunity for a lot of this training that 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.460 that's going on out in the pacific northwest 00:13:11.460 --> 00:13:16.519 to you know to expand and and go uh beyond those 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:19.980 boundaries yeah absolutely and you know it's 00:13:19.980 --> 00:13:22.500 funny just as an aside i'll tell you uh something 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:26.059 about that that puts what you just said about 00:13:26.059 --> 00:13:29.039 the different weather services and what constitutes 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:32.639 an emergency in one place versus another. It's 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.899 going on right now as you and I are talking. 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.059 There are a few snowflakes falling out of the 00:13:37.059 --> 00:13:41.580 sky here in Seattle where I'm located. And in 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:43.799 large parts of the country, that would not be 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.039 a big deal. And in Seattle, everybody's hair 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.840 is... is on fire because we don't get a ton of 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.039 snow. And we've also got really steep hills. 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:55.440 And so it becomes pretty exciting around here 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.419 when this occurs. Yeah, you know, tried getting 00:13:58.419 --> 00:14:00.759 somebody in Minnesota excited about a few flakes 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:02.620 of snow falling out of the sky. It's not going 00:14:02.620 --> 00:14:05.700 to happen. Right. But but, you know, yeah, you 00:14:05.700 --> 00:14:09.460 you are absolutely right. There is a need for, 00:14:09.460 --> 00:14:12.620 you know, for for folks who are interested in 00:14:12.620 --> 00:14:16.320 EMCOM to be able to Learn about the fundamentals 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.120 and it can be very hit and miss as to where you 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.779 can get that kind of training and we're certainly 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:27.059 hoping to help meet that need and. Some of the 00:14:27.059 --> 00:14:29.460 presentations that we'll have for Comm Academy 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:34.840 21 use as the basis of them something that is 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.720 somewhat local, like here in the Pacific Northwest, 00:14:37.980 --> 00:14:39.940 the biggest thing that we're always thinking 00:14:39.940 --> 00:14:42.779 about for MCOM drills and whatnot is a big earthquake. 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:47.779 We have the Cascadia subduction zone, which when 00:14:47.779 --> 00:14:50.639 it goes off, which statistically it does about 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.580 every 300 years, that's a pretty big deal. And 00:14:54.580 --> 00:14:56.759 guess when the last time was? that it went off 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.799 1700 so you know do the math we're pretty excited 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.700 about that around here but preparation for an 00:15:03.700 --> 00:15:08.580 earthquake is in some ways very similar from 00:15:08.580 --> 00:15:10.679 a communications point of view to what you would 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:12.360 have to do if you're in an area that's going 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:16.159 to be affected by severe weather, things like 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.460 that, where we are imagining scenarios where 00:15:20.460 --> 00:15:22.519 the conventional communication infrastructure 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.220 isn't available and folks who are good at not 00:15:26.220 --> 00:15:29.320 just radio technology but structured communications 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.919 and interfacing with served agencies and things 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:36.159 like that become so important. That is universal 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.720 in a sense, right? So you can take what we're 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.059 gonna talk about in one of the presentations 00:15:42.059 --> 00:15:45.120 at Comm Academy this year where we talk about 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.940 the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake idea 00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:53.460 and you can apply that to any disaster that has 00:15:53.460 --> 00:15:57.980 the same net effect on communications infrastructure 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:00.299 and then look at some of the options for how 00:16:00.299 --> 00:16:03.559 to deal with that. Yeah, and here it's the new 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.840 Madrid fault. I've always lived like right on 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:09.899 the new Madrid fault and it's kind of the same 00:16:09.899 --> 00:16:13.720 thing the clock is ticking and and everybody 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:15.740 keeps saying, you know, this thing's gonna hit 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:20.870 and Just doesn't but eventually it will and that's 00:16:20.870 --> 00:16:24.169 right. And you know, that's something that that 00:16:24.169 --> 00:16:27.590 does you know cross over but like you said the 00:16:27.590 --> 00:16:30.570 fundamentals are there the criteria might be 00:16:30.570 --> 00:16:32.730 a little different because different people want 00:16:32.730 --> 00:16:37.649 different things and and how it's You know when 00:16:37.649 --> 00:16:41.009 it's reported and the method of reporting but 00:16:41.009 --> 00:16:46.269 the the basic fundamentals are are the same. 00:16:46.610 --> 00:16:50.250 You've got some kind of a command structure that 00:16:50.250 --> 00:16:54.230 needs to be followed, and self -deploying is 00:16:54.230 --> 00:17:02.009 always a bad idea. There are things like that 00:17:02.009 --> 00:17:08.180 that can be put together. independent of the 00:17:08.180 --> 00:17:10.720 criteria and then you apply that criteria to 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.980 the local stuff. So let's talk a little bit about 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:19.180 what are a couple of the workshops that you'll 00:17:19.180 --> 00:17:23.500 have here at Comm Academy online this year. Yeah, 00:17:23.740 --> 00:17:28.150 let's go into that. By way of introducing that, 00:17:28.430 --> 00:17:31.269 I will mention, Neil, one of the trends that 00:17:31.269 --> 00:17:35.109 I think we should all as hams, especially hams 00:17:35.109 --> 00:17:38.029 that have an interest in EMCOM, be thinking about, 00:17:38.089 --> 00:17:43.890 which is when we imagine the disruptions to the 00:17:43.890 --> 00:17:47.329 communications infrastructure. It's likely to 00:17:47.329 --> 00:17:50.009 be kinda different from you know like when i 00:17:50.009 --> 00:17:52.690 first became a ham in the nineties where we would 00:17:52.690 --> 00:17:55.450 imagine holy smokes like everything is gonna 00:17:55.450 --> 00:17:59.059 be off it is gonna be dead the. Internet internet 00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:01.019 infrastructure digital infrastructure that we've 00:18:01.019 --> 00:18:05.019 got is incredibly resilient and there's a likelihood 00:18:05.019 --> 00:18:08.420 that no matter how big the disaster is if it's 00:18:08.420 --> 00:18:13.299 a natural disaster probably some Of that infrastructure 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:16.279 is still going to be up and working however Having 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.779 said that the kinds of there are going to be 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:21.180 gaps and holes and the kinds of skills that we 00:18:21.180 --> 00:18:24.170 need to bring to bear are going to be different 00:18:24.170 --> 00:18:28.049 but still incredibly valuable. So here's an example. 00:18:28.210 --> 00:18:33.390 So one of the presentations is going to be by 00:18:33.390 --> 00:18:38.289 a ham named Randy Neal's W3RWN. And he was part 00:18:38.289 --> 00:18:42.809 of a group that went down to Oregon after a wildfire 00:18:42.809 --> 00:18:45.470 they had called the Holiday Farm Fire. The fire 00:18:45.470 --> 00:18:48.609 cut off communications infrastructure to some 00:18:48.609 --> 00:18:52.329 communities. And one of these communities that 00:18:52.329 --> 00:18:57.559 was quite had the fiber optic cable and a bunch 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:02.819 of switching and so forth, as well as a cell 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:05.460 site that served them, all of that destroyed 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:08.960 in the fire. Randy and these other folks that 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.759 he'll be talking about in his presentation created 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.920 a group that they called Oregon Internet Response, 00:19:15.380 --> 00:19:18.299 and they went down and put up communications 00:19:18.299 --> 00:19:23.160 infrastructure, emergency internet access for 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.920 the folks there. And so the know -how that was 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:29.500 required to do that response had absolutely as 00:19:29.500 --> 00:19:32.859 much to do with being good with TCPIP networking, 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.500 routing, switching, stuff like that, as it did 00:19:36.500 --> 00:19:40.640 with ham radio itself. But it was hams that were 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.240 the majority of the folks that were part of Oregon 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:46.539 Internet Response. And so it was this recognition 00:19:46.539 --> 00:19:50.799 that the spirit of ham radio in helping restore 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.099 communications where they're cut off married 00:19:53.099 --> 00:19:55.920 to the realities of what kind of technical know 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.720 -how you're going to have to bring to that kind 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.880 of response. It was beautifully done. They got 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.619 the community back online, up and running. where 00:20:04.619 --> 00:20:07.180 they had a center in the middle of the little 00:20:07.180 --> 00:20:09.299 town that was affected where there was there 00:20:09.299 --> 00:20:11.900 were big signs that said emergency internet access 00:20:11.900 --> 00:20:14.599 and folks could get there and connect to that 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:17.900 wifi hotspot and and get out to the world so 00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:21.240 that's one example uh... and i'll i'll pause 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:24.420 there but uh... anyway it's it really makes you 00:20:24.420 --> 00:20:27.160 think about what needs to be in your toolkit 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:31.500 and for as far as skills go for being able to 00:20:31.500 --> 00:20:35.690 uh... step in and help in various kinds of emergencies. 00:20:37.430 --> 00:20:43.309 Well, that's a cool topic. And maybe let's, if 00:20:43.309 --> 00:20:45.670 you've got one more, let's hit one more here 00:20:45.670 --> 00:20:49.309 of something that people can expect to hear. 00:20:50.190 --> 00:20:53.849 Yeah. So let's see, there is, we're going to 00:20:53.849 --> 00:20:56.690 have a, you mentioned, I'm going to talk about 00:20:56.690 --> 00:20:59.089 something that you touched on a second ago too, 00:20:59.230 --> 00:21:05.359 where so many of the the events that we have 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:10.670 to respond to. have a command structure associated 00:21:10.670 --> 00:21:15.470 with them. So, Tom, V -E -6 -T -O -X is going 00:21:15.470 --> 00:21:17.369 to give a presentation called The Importance 00:21:17.369 --> 00:21:22.109 of ICS in Addressing the Big Ones. And, you know, 00:21:22.150 --> 00:21:24.069 a lot of folks listening, especially if they 00:21:24.069 --> 00:21:26.950 have an interest in MCOM, probably are familiar 00:21:26.950 --> 00:21:30.369 with ICS, the Incident Command System, which 00:21:30.369 --> 00:21:35.150 is something that the National Incident Management 00:21:35.150 --> 00:21:39.190 System created and that's connected to FEMA, 00:21:39.750 --> 00:21:45.109 it's a system, a command structure that is consistent 00:21:45.109 --> 00:21:48.529 and replicated across different types of agencies 00:21:48.529 --> 00:21:52.589 that allows for a very structured way for folks 00:21:52.589 --> 00:21:56.329 to interact. Different capacities and different 00:21:56.329 --> 00:22:00.069 disciplines have a set of ways that they interact 00:22:00.069 --> 00:22:02.670 with each other. This is highly applicable to 00:22:02.670 --> 00:22:04.890 the kinds of situations that hams are gonna be 00:22:04.890 --> 00:22:08.210 asked to step into age of disaster. So there's 00:22:08.210 --> 00:22:10.329 an example of a presentation at Comm Academy 00:22:10.329 --> 00:22:13.349 that's not very technical in nature but is extremely 00:22:13.349 --> 00:22:17.769 important as far as how we can fit in and kind 00:22:17.769 --> 00:22:26.039 of smoothly become part of the process. We're 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:27.799 going to take a break here in just a minute, 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:30.980 but let's tell people how they can attend, how 00:22:30.980 --> 00:22:34.579 much this is going to cost, and where people 00:22:34.579 --> 00:22:37.779 can find more information about Comm Academy. 00:22:38.779 --> 00:22:40.859 Oh, so you mean I get to talk about my favorite 00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:44.380 part of it, the price tag. Comm Academy is free. 00:22:44.779 --> 00:22:48.259 It doesn't cost you a penny. And you can find 00:22:48.259 --> 00:22:51.960 out all about it and pre -register. We're taking 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.150 pre -registration now. CommAcademy .org. Thank 00:22:55.150 --> 00:22:58.460 you. If you're on social media, we're at Comm 00:22:58.460 --> 00:23:01.799 Academy Conf, Charlie Oscar November Foxtrot 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:04.259 at the end for conference, Comm Academy Conf. 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:07.180 But I definitely encourage folks to come to the 00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:10.700 website, commacademy .org, to find out more about 00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:12.779 what we're talking about here and importantly 00:23:12.779 --> 00:23:15.920 to pre -register. Pre -registering gets you on 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.539 an email list where we will send you updates 00:23:18.539 --> 00:23:23.400 and let you know when the actual registration 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:26.089 on the platform itself is up and running. so 00:23:26.089 --> 00:23:29.069 that you can get booked in. We don't have any 00:23:29.069 --> 00:23:31.589 particular limit on our capacity, which is one 00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:33.890 of the coolest things about Comm Academy this 00:23:33.890 --> 00:23:35.930 year. But commacademy .org, that's where you 00:23:35.930 --> 00:23:39.430 find out all the info. Okay, well, very good. 00:23:39.490 --> 00:23:42.730 And then what will people need to connect? Is 00:23:42.730 --> 00:23:47.329 it a Zoom platform or is it a similar platform? 00:23:47.950 --> 00:23:50.569 How are you doing that? Yeah, you know what? 00:23:50.650 --> 00:23:52.710 All you'll need is a browser and an internet 00:23:52.710 --> 00:23:55.819 connection. It'll all be, you know, there will 00:23:55.819 --> 00:23:59.900 be links sent, and so we're using a platform, 00:23:59.900 --> 00:24:02.019 but you don't have to have any platform installed. 00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:05.500 You will just need a browser and internet. Okay, 00:24:05.779 --> 00:24:09.220 very good. Well, simple enough to attend, and 00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:12.539 the price is right. It's free, so check them 00:24:12.539 --> 00:24:15.259 out at Comm Academy, and that's two M's, by the 00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:19.900 way, C -O -M -M, Academy .org. All right, well. 00:24:20.089 --> 00:24:22.289 We'll come back, we'll talk with Tim, we'll take 00:24:22.289 --> 00:24:26.049 your phone calls and your tweets and comments 00:24:26.049 --> 00:24:29.670 and talk a little more about Comm Academy right 00:24:29.670 --> 00:24:32.589 after this word from Tower Electronics right 00:24:32.589 --> 00:24:38.269 here on HamTalk Live. 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You're 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:22.200 listening to HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp. Welcome 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.539 back to HamTalk Live thanks to Tower Electronics. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:29.500 For sponsoring the show again tonight, they help 00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:32.380 bring you HamTalk Live each and every week. Their 00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:35.920 HamFest schedule coming up, Brooksville, Florida 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:41.059 on February 20th and Dalton, Georgia on February 00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:44.339 27th. But if you can't make it to one of those, 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:53.579 you can visit them online at PL -259 .com. You 00:26:53.579 --> 00:26:56.400 can find ham talk live at ham talk live comm 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:59.680 every Thursday night at 9 p .m Eastern time and 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.140 check us out on Facebook Twitter and Instagram 00:27:03.140 --> 00:27:07.980 and normally at this time we'd have the Ham radio 00:27:07.980 --> 00:27:10.720 joke of the week, but since Valentine's Day is 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.160 coming up this week Rick decided to send us something 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:20.180 a little extra special. So let's see what Let's 00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:30.640 just see what he sent us this week I've been 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.960 a ham for over 35 years and I can tell you, we 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:36.480 are not the most socially adept group of people 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:38.960 there are, especially when it comes to finding 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.440 a spouse. So I've put together a few pickup lines 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:46.359 for ham radio operators. Feel free to use these. 00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:49.839 Number one, hey baby, I think we're on the same 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:54.779 wavelength. Hey, what's your call sign? What's 00:27:54.779 --> 00:27:59.329 a nice girl like you doing on 75 meters? You 00:27:59.329 --> 00:28:02.910 put a glow in my tubes. Hey, baby, you cut right 00:28:02.910 --> 00:28:07.170 through the QRM Let's have our own private field 00:28:07.170 --> 00:28:10.950 day and my personal favorite you put the Fox 00:28:10.950 --> 00:28:28.319 in Fox hunt This has been the Ham Talk Live Ham 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:32.259 Radio Joke of the Week with Rick Garrett in 9GSU. 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:35.180 Tune in again next week for another joke from 00:28:35.180 --> 00:28:57.829 Rick. I always love 75 meter jokes. I'm always 00:28:57.829 --> 00:29:01.049 telling them 75 meter jokes. So I love the, what's 00:29:01.049 --> 00:29:06.289 a nice girl like you doing on 75 meters? This 00:29:06.289 --> 00:29:08.990 doesn't help for, uh, for variety of points of 00:29:08.990 --> 00:29:10.630 view here, but that was the one I was going to 00:29:10.630 --> 00:29:16.359 name too, man. That was great. I hadn't thought 00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:20.059 of that one before. I'm always telling 75 meter 00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:23.880 jokes, or 7 ,200 jokes, but I guess that's not 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:26.720 a thing now. I don't know. Well, anyway. Who 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.339 knows? Don't make any mistake. We all love 75 00:29:30.339 --> 00:29:35.599 meters. Yes, exactly. It's just you get a variety 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:39.069 on there. Everything from... You do. from politics 00:29:39.069 --> 00:29:42.589 to religion to colonoscopies so and once in a 00:29:42.589 --> 00:29:45.470 while they talk about ham radio too yeah and 00:29:45.470 --> 00:29:48.630 ham radio you never know well it's time for your 00:29:48.630 --> 00:29:53.390 phone calls right now so give us a call the number 00:29:53.390 --> 00:30:00.230 is 859 -982 -7373 now is the time to call if 00:30:00.230 --> 00:30:05.019 you have a question for tim it's 859 nine eight 00:30:05.019 --> 00:30:08.180 two seventy three seventy three or you can tweet 00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:11.839 us it's at ham talk live and if you're listening 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:16.319 to us on WTWW or on the podcast Edition or not. 00:30:16.380 --> 00:30:19.460 We're not here anymore. It's Thursday evening 00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:24.380 as we're doing this and it looks like Looks like 00:30:24.380 --> 00:30:27.039 we're getting some some messages here on Twitter. 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.099 So I will check those here in just a moment, 00:30:30.099 --> 00:30:33.960 but I was digging around doing some research 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:38.039 and I saw that you had planned a three -day event 00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:42.980 with some things called master classes and I 00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:44.880 thought I'd give you a chance to kind of talk 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.720 about that a little bit and I know you know you're 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.559 disappointed in not being able to offer those 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:55.579 but is that on the plans for next year? Yeah, 00:30:55.579 --> 00:31:00.039 we certainly plan to come back to something closer 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.359 to what we used to do But as I said augmented 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:08.700 by an an online capacity as well But yeah, you 00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:12.980 know the the the idea here is that we want as 00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:15.259 much as possible There's there's no substitute 00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:18.640 for having the give -and -take of a live classroom 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:20.920 type environment and the way that we're going 00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:25.539 to do Comm Academy 21 is the presentations by 00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:29.240 the speakers are gonna be pre -recorded, and 00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.119 then we'll play them during the time slots of 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:35.920 the April 10th and 11th. But during that time, 00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:38.900 those presenters are gonna be live on the platform 00:31:38.900 --> 00:31:41.900 for Q &A and interaction and like that. So in 00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:44.359 that sense, it's kind of the best of both worlds 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.619 because when was the time that you ever got to 00:31:47.619 --> 00:31:51.480 talk to a speaker while they were speaking, right? 00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:56.900 On the stage, so to speak. So there will be interactivity, 00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:59.500 but that's not the same as being able to do a 00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:03.079 kind of almost more hands -on workshop. And so 00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:06.079 we'll come back to that, hopefully next year, 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.259 once we're back to being able to be in person 00:32:09.259 --> 00:32:13.750 again. So that has been part of Comm Academy 00:32:13.750 --> 00:32:16.109 in the past. It will be part of Comm Academy 00:32:16.109 --> 00:32:20.049 future. In the meantime, you know, there will 00:32:20.049 --> 00:32:22.650 be, like I say, if you see something during a 00:32:22.650 --> 00:32:24.849 presentation, you have a question, you wonder 00:32:24.849 --> 00:32:27.789 about some specifics or where to get more learning 00:32:27.789 --> 00:32:30.049 about that particular thing or whatnot, you will 00:32:30.049 --> 00:32:32.809 be able to interact with the presenter through 00:32:32.809 --> 00:32:37.490 our platform and get that information. All right. 00:32:37.609 --> 00:32:41.440 Well, that sounds good. Well, we're getting some 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.140 messages in here, but if you want to give us 00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:47.160 a phone call You can do that right now at eight 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:51.200 five nine Nine eight two seventy three seventy 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:55.779 three. Dr. Scott Wright k0md Got on the pickup 00:32:55.779 --> 00:33:00.640 lines bandwagon apparently What's a nice lady 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:10.049 like you doing with a walk Sean? Yeah Yeah, he 00:33:10.049 --> 00:33:14.650 says more 75 meter jokes, please So he also says 00:33:14.650 --> 00:33:17.150 make sure that that people realize that this 00:33:17.150 --> 00:33:21.670 is calm Academy not Khan Academy, which My so 00:33:21.670 --> 00:33:23.029 that's a whole different thing all the time. 00:33:23.029 --> 00:33:26.809 That's a whole different thing Khan Academy has 00:33:26.809 --> 00:33:29.390 all kinds of good good science and math stuff 00:33:29.390 --> 00:33:35.950 But this is calm C O M M Academy not K a H in 00:33:35.950 --> 00:33:40.079 so there we go Yes, you know, it's funny that 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.799 yep, we used to have the official name was Communications 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.880 Academy, but everybody just called it calm Academy 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:49.940 So we thought well, let's just make the official 00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:53.519 name the same thing that everybody calls it Exactly, 00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:56.599 and if it were if it were in science, we'd make 00:33:56.599 --> 00:34:01.700 it in an acronym There's an acronym for acronyms 00:34:01.700 --> 00:34:05.799 like TLA is an acronym for three -letter acronym 00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:10.469 the meta acronym Yeah, we always turn everything 00:34:10.469 --> 00:34:14.610 into acronyms in science. Let's see, Chris A4CB 00:34:14.610 --> 00:34:17.429 is with us again tonight and says, yay, Brooksville 00:34:17.429 --> 00:34:22.130 Hamfest. So that's good. That's down in his area. 00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:26.170 And Mike Braun, KB8ZYE, is with us from over 00:34:26.170 --> 00:34:28.630 near Cincinnati. So thank you, Mike, for tuning 00:34:28.630 --> 00:34:32.590 in and commenting tonight says it's an interesting 00:34:32.590 --> 00:34:38.829 topic. So Mike does all the... the QSL -ing and 00:34:38.829 --> 00:34:41.590 logging over at the Voice of America Museum. 00:34:42.170 --> 00:34:45.349 So thanks for tuning in, Mike. And if you have 00:34:45.349 --> 00:34:50.130 a question for Tim, give us a call, 859 -982 00:34:50.130 --> 00:34:55.269 -7373, or you can tweet at HamTalk Live or on 00:34:55.269 --> 00:35:01.989 the comments. Send us one and we'll get that 00:35:01.989 --> 00:35:07.030 question answered. Another thing that I noticed 00:35:07.030 --> 00:35:10.090 in doing some of the research here for the show 00:35:10.090 --> 00:35:14.630 tonight is you've got an extensive archive on 00:35:14.630 --> 00:35:18.070 the website. Talk a little bit about what you 00:35:18.070 --> 00:35:22.489 can find there in the archives for some stuff. 00:35:22.750 --> 00:35:26.150 Maybe you can go look at, if you can't wait until 00:35:26.150 --> 00:35:29.130 the new stuff comes out, you can check out some 00:35:29.130 --> 00:35:33.059 of the old stuff. Yeah, that's right. You know, 00:35:33.239 --> 00:35:35.079 gee, we should have thought about having a quiz 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:38.880 on the previous 20 years worth of material for 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:40.639 folks that are coming in this year. But no, it's 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:42.619 true. If you come to the website, comacademy 00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:45.860 .org, there is a menu there that will take you 00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:48.920 to the archives. And we have archived presentations 00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:53.719 from ComAcademy's previous, going back to 2001. 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:57.539 So if there's a particular topic around emergency 00:35:57.539 --> 00:36:00.300 communications that you are interested in and 00:36:00.230 --> 00:36:03.369 want to find information about it, there's a 00:36:03.369 --> 00:36:06.050 really good chance that somewhere in those 20 00:36:06.050 --> 00:36:08.630 years of archives, you can find that particular 00:36:08.630 --> 00:36:12.630 topic. So I definitely encourage folks to go 00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:16.230 and check that out, all absolutely free, available 00:36:16.230 --> 00:36:23.250 to anybody. So the concept with Comm Academy 00:36:23.250 --> 00:36:26.889 is very similar to the spirit of open source. 00:36:27.449 --> 00:36:31.670 This is not protected. private information we 00:36:31.670 --> 00:36:35.150 our whole point here is that we want to make 00:36:35.150 --> 00:36:38.710 information about best practices and technical 00:36:38.710 --> 00:36:41.389 stuff and whatnot available to as many folks 00:36:41.389 --> 00:36:44.949 as as wanted and can so yeah that's why our archives 00:36:44.949 --> 00:36:50.170 are 100 % open and available very good well let's 00:36:50.170 --> 00:36:54.150 make one last opportunity here for a phone call. 00:36:54.349 --> 00:37:02.289 It's 859 -982 -7373. We're gonna close down here 00:37:02.289 --> 00:37:06.050 momentarily, so give us a call if you've been 00:37:06.050 --> 00:37:11.530 waiting to do that. Do that right now. 859 -982 00:37:11.530 --> 00:37:20.989 -7373. When it comes to... I'm going... Going 00:37:20.989 --> 00:37:25.170 off the script here for a minute When it comes 00:37:25.170 --> 00:37:33.030 to Safety when it comes to keeping Your responders 00:37:33.030 --> 00:37:37.309 safe, what what are the the big things that that 00:37:37.309 --> 00:37:41.170 are going to be addressed about? About that at 00:37:41.170 --> 00:37:44.429 the Academy or has been addressed in previous 00:37:44.429 --> 00:37:48.630 years Yeah, you know, that's a really good point. 00:37:49.130 --> 00:37:53.329 As you mentioned in the intro, part of what I 00:37:53.329 --> 00:37:56.889 do in my volunteer time is work with Seattle 00:37:56.889 --> 00:37:59.329 ACS, Seattle Auxiliary Communication Service, 00:37:59.349 --> 00:38:02.949 which is a type of organization that probably 00:38:02.949 --> 00:38:05.909 a lot of your listeners are also part of in their 00:38:05.909 --> 00:38:08.690 local areas if they're interested in MCOM. And 00:38:08.690 --> 00:38:12.150 one of the points that Seattle ACS makes for 00:38:12.150 --> 00:38:17.739 all of our membership regularly is that Personal 00:38:17.739 --> 00:38:20.800 and organizational safety is key. You can't be 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.639 of much help in an emergency communications setting 00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.460 if you yourself are compromised in one way or 00:38:26.460 --> 00:38:32.300 another. So some of the briefings at Comm Academy, 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:35.380 some of the presentations, past and present, 00:38:35.619 --> 00:38:38.780 have to do with personal safety and preparedness 00:38:38.780 --> 00:38:44.730 and what you should... be prepared to deal with 00:38:44.730 --> 00:38:47.190 whether those are things like what your go kit 00:38:47.190 --> 00:38:49.710 should include, not just your radio go kit, but 00:38:49.710 --> 00:38:53.250 your personal go kit with medical gear and water 00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:55.849 and food supplies and stuff like that for yourself 00:38:55.849 --> 00:39:01.750 and your family. And whether it's that or presentations 00:39:01.750 --> 00:39:05.170 about hazards like winter driving and that sort 00:39:05.170 --> 00:39:10.400 of thing. You, in order to be effective in helping 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:13.380 out the agencies that you are dedicated to serving 00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:17.519 as a volunteer, you have to be squared away personally 00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:19.780 and your family has to be taken care of. Everybody's 00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:22.760 family comes first, right? But once those things 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:26.579 are squared away and we have a lot of information 00:39:26.579 --> 00:39:31.199 in the archives on some of those topics, then 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:34.719 you are in a position to be able to really help 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:39.150 with whatever response is called for. Yeah, you 00:39:39.150 --> 00:39:42.730 really have to make sure things are okay first 00:39:42.730 --> 00:39:47.190 before you go out and ask to be deployed somewhere 00:39:47.190 --> 00:39:51.190 because the last thing you want to happen is 00:39:51.190 --> 00:39:53.949 be out somewhere and then all of a sudden you 00:39:53.949 --> 00:39:58.610 have to go back and abandon your spot and go 00:39:58.610 --> 00:40:01.559 back and take care of something that's... more 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:04.980 pressing at home and and so exactly always a 00:40:04.980 --> 00:40:07.659 good idea to make sure that things are are good 00:40:07.659 --> 00:40:11.300 to go before you go yeah i mean we people who 00:40:11.300 --> 00:40:13.739 are so interested in radios and technical stuff 00:40:13.739 --> 00:40:16.000 and everything it's easy for us to lose sight 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:19.239 of you know we can have our our go kit with radios 00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.739 all figured out and sorted and we got our power 00:40:22.739 --> 00:40:25.099 poles and we got our solar and we got all the 00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:28.909 radios ready to rock And if we wind up on a deployment 00:40:28.909 --> 00:40:33.369 and we don't have any water with us, we're going 00:40:33.369 --> 00:40:36.469 to have a problem, right? So we have to remind 00:40:36.469 --> 00:40:39.110 ourselves sometimes as enamored as we are of 00:40:39.110 --> 00:40:41.289 the technology that we use that there are other 00:40:41.289 --> 00:40:43.230 aspects to this preparedness that might not be 00:40:43.230 --> 00:40:45.349 quite as fun, but that we've got to absolutely 00:40:45.349 --> 00:40:52.059 have covered. I was in a club meeting here. at 00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:54.639 the Southern Indiana Amateur Radio Association 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:57.039 and they were talking about these life straws. 00:40:57.139 --> 00:40:59.880 And I had never heard of this as a chemistry 00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:02.119 teacher. I thought I'd heard of one of those. 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.559 But, you know, just something like that that, 00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:08.719 you know, can purify the water, you know, if 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:11.579 you need to. That's a good thing to have around. 00:41:11.699 --> 00:41:14.840 And so I'm sure you have a lot of hints and tricks 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:19.550 like that. will be presented and people need 00:41:19.550 --> 00:41:22.789 to check that out. So again, remind everybody 00:41:22.789 --> 00:41:27.210 when this is, where it is, and how they can attend. 00:41:28.130 --> 00:41:33.110 Yeah, absolutely. So we certainly encourage everybody 00:41:33.110 --> 00:41:35.389 that even thinks you might be slightly interested 00:41:35.389 --> 00:41:38.250 in this topic to come to Comm Academy. April 00:41:38.250 --> 00:41:41.940 10th. and eleventh of this year uh... and you 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:44.400 can find out everything you need to know about 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:47.780 comacademy online comacademy that is charlie 00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:52.380 oscar mike mike academy dot org uh... and uh... 00:41:52.380 --> 00:41:54.900 you can sign up there you can uh... find out 00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:57.300 we're gonna if our schedule of speakers isn't 00:41:57.300 --> 00:42:02.230 up right now it will be very soon uh... And yeah, 00:42:02.550 --> 00:42:04.389 that's really all you need to know. If you have 00:42:04.389 --> 00:42:07.010 that URL, you can get all the rest of the information. 00:42:07.670 --> 00:42:09.869 But April 10th and 11th, put it on the calendar. 00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:13.940 All right, very good well Tim. Thank you so much 00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:16.480 for all the work that you do on this and thank 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:20.280 you for coming on the show and Promoting this 00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:24.900 and giving a chance for everyone to attend the 00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:31.269 calm Academy 2021 and you know It could turn 00:42:31.269 --> 00:42:34.530 into a more permanent thing. Again, necessity, 00:42:34.530 --> 00:42:40.630 you know. It drives things. And so we may be 00:42:40.630 --> 00:42:43.869 looking at more to come. So we'll be interested 00:42:43.869 --> 00:42:46.210 to see how that goes. But thanks for coming on, 00:42:46.690 --> 00:42:49.429 talking about everything and hope it goes well. 00:42:50.530 --> 00:42:53.190 Well, thank you, Neil. It's been a blast and 00:42:53.190 --> 00:42:56.309 absolutely thrilled that you invited me to be 00:42:56.309 --> 00:42:59.170 on and hope to see lots and lots of folks for 00:42:59.170 --> 00:43:02.969 Comm Academy this year. Alright, well check those 00:43:02.969 --> 00:43:06.789 out and I'm sure Tim can answer questions too. 00:43:06.969 --> 00:43:11.409 It's a Whiskey Tango One India Mike and you can 00:43:11.409 --> 00:43:16.250 find him, I know, at QRZ .com. So if you have 00:43:16.250 --> 00:43:20.570 questions, go to comacademy .org or get a hold 00:43:20.570 --> 00:43:24.630 of Tim and they'll help you out. So that is a 00:43:24.630 --> 00:43:27.300 wrap. for this week's edition of HamTalk Live. 00:43:27.539 --> 00:43:31.380 Thanks to my guests, Tim Helming, WT1IM, and 00:43:31.380 --> 00:43:33.800 everybody out there in cyberspace for listening 00:43:33.800 --> 00:43:36.980 and typing in tonight. And I invite you back 00:43:36.980 --> 00:43:40.159 next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern time. And 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:43.380 for a list of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive 00:43:43.380 --> 00:43:46.679 .com. 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