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It's time for HamTalk Live. It's episode number
246, Comm Academy 2021 Online, recorded live
on Thursday, February 11th, 2021. I'm your host,
Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this
episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're joined
by Tim Helming, WT1IM. He's the public information
officer of the Calm Academy and will take your
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to HamTalk Live. Tonight, Tim Helming, WT1IM
joins us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club and
hamcation Zoom line. Tim caught the radio bug
as a little kid and has been a ham for nearly
30 years. He currently operates nearly DC to
daylight, HF through five gigahertz on the ham
wan. And throughout his ham career, Tim has had
an interest in Emergency Communications and Public
Service, in addition to operating on air, he
serves as the PIO for the Seattle Auxiliary Communication
Service and Comm Academy. So Tim, welcome to
HamTalk Live. Hey, Neil, it's great to be here.
Thank you so much for having me on today. Well,
thanks so much for contacting me and talking
about the Comm Academy. And I have a feeling
that that you know a lot of people aren't really
familiar with this unless of course you're out
in the pacific northwest because it's been an
in -person thing and now you had some choices
to make and you've got a chance to go online
and and that opens up the doors for a lot of
other things so so tell us a little bit about
the academy uh what would normally happen i guess
um And what happens and and why? Yeah, so calm
Academy This is our 20th year, but first year
online and So from its inception and up through
You know last year it was a In -person event
in the Seattle area and it was like it like it
is this year two days of workshops and presentations
and training and so forth. But you know up until
now it was a literal kind of classroom environment
folks would show up and receive this training
in person and we didn't have any kind of a streaming
or online component so. when the pandemic, of
course, pushed us away from being able to do
anything in person. uh... we realized there was
this opportunity to make lemonade out of the
lemons and uh... put come academy online and
make it a virtual conference and not only will
the people who uh... who have shown up to the
uh... come academy for years be able to still
join but of course now we have the opportunity
to open this up to a nation -wide or even a worldwide
audience so uh... we are really excited about
that and i can tell you that uh... For Comm Academies
in the future, it'll never be the same in a very
good way that once we are able to do Comm Academy
in person again, we will also have an online
component so that people can join from wherever
they might be. So we really feel like there was
a silver lining to the disappointment of not
being able to meet in person. And so it will
be an opportunity for anybody anywhere that's
got an interest in emergency communication. and
preparation around various kinds of emergencies
to participate, get a lot of knowledge, meet
a lot of other folks, and generally just get
very steeped in various aspects of kind of structured
communications for a couple of days in April
this year. Well, necessity often pushes us to
do new things. Uh, you know, this has been the
year for it and, and we're just talking during
the break, uh, you know, how much these, these
virtual conferences and, and, um, zoom technology
and all these different webinar, uh, platforms
and everything are just booming because there
there's all this stuff going online when you
can't do it otherwise. And, and so, you know,
I think that's. A good thing here because I know
a lot of times I struggle with finding good emcom
Material for the show. I know there's an interest
in it But but sometimes I struggle to find experts
that you know can really relate when a lot of
this is localized. And so everybody has their
own specific criteria. Like, you know, if I tried
to do something on weather spotting, well, you
know, talking about tornadoes, you know, out
in, you know, Yeah, like in the Seattle area,
you know, yeah or Seattle, you know, yeah. Yeah,
it doesn't doesn't really make sense and and
even even different weather offices have different
Call -in criteria. So if you're weather spotting,
you know, some people only want you know quarter
-size hail where other people they want an OP
size hail and and so it's hard to to come up
with something that that's that's you know worldwide
or even nationwide um for that so this is giving
an opportunity for a lot of this training that
that's going on out in the pacific northwest
to you know to expand and and go uh beyond those
boundaries yeah absolutely and you know it's
funny just as an aside i'll tell you uh something
about that that puts what you just said about
the different weather services and what constitutes
an emergency in one place versus another. It's
going on right now as you and I are talking.
There are a few snowflakes falling out of the
sky here in Seattle where I'm located. And in
large parts of the country, that would not be
a big deal. And in Seattle, everybody's hair
is... is on fire because we don't get a ton of
snow. And we've also got really steep hills.
And so it becomes pretty exciting around here
when this occurs. Yeah, you know, tried getting
somebody in Minnesota excited about a few flakes
of snow falling out of the sky. It's not going
to happen. Right. But but, you know, yeah, you
you are absolutely right. There is a need for,
you know, for for folks who are interested in
EMCOM to be able to Learn about the fundamentals
and it can be very hit and miss as to where you
can get that kind of training and we're certainly
hoping to help meet that need and. Some of the
presentations that we'll have for Comm Academy
21 use as the basis of them something that is
somewhat local, like here in the Pacific Northwest,
the biggest thing that we're always thinking
about for MCOM drills and whatnot is a big earthquake.
We have the Cascadia subduction zone, which when
it goes off, which statistically it does about
every 300 years, that's a pretty big deal. And
guess when the last time was? that it went off
1700 so you know do the math we're pretty excited
about that around here but preparation for an
earthquake is in some ways very similar from
a communications point of view to what you would
have to do if you're in an area that's going
to be affected by severe weather, things like
that, where we are imagining scenarios where
the conventional communication infrastructure
isn't available and folks who are good at not
just radio technology but structured communications
and interfacing with served agencies and things
like that become so important. That is universal
in a sense, right? So you can take what we're
gonna talk about in one of the presentations
at Comm Academy this year where we talk about
the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake idea
and you can apply that to any disaster that has
the same net effect on communications infrastructure
and then look at some of the options for how
to deal with that. Yeah, and here it's the new
Madrid fault. I've always lived like right on
the new Madrid fault and it's kind of the same
thing the clock is ticking and and everybody
keeps saying, you know, this thing's gonna hit
and Just doesn't but eventually it will and that's
right. And you know, that's something that that
does you know cross over but like you said the
fundamentals are there the criteria might be
a little different because different people want
different things and and how it's You know when
it's reported and the method of reporting but
the the basic fundamentals are are the same.
You've got some kind of a command structure that
needs to be followed, and self -deploying is
always a bad idea. There are things like that
that can be put together. independent of the
criteria and then you apply that criteria to
the local stuff. So let's talk a little bit about
what are a couple of the workshops that you'll
have here at Comm Academy online this year. Yeah,
let's go into that. By way of introducing that,
I will mention, Neil, one of the trends that
I think we should all as hams, especially hams
that have an interest in EMCOM, be thinking about,
which is when we imagine the disruptions to the
communications infrastructure. It's likely to
be kinda different from you know like when i
first became a ham in the nineties where we would
imagine holy smokes like everything is gonna
be off it is gonna be dead the. Internet internet
infrastructure digital infrastructure that we've
got is incredibly resilient and there's a likelihood
that no matter how big the disaster is if it's
a natural disaster probably some Of that infrastructure
is still going to be up and working however Having
said that the kinds of there are going to be
gaps and holes and the kinds of skills that we
need to bring to bear are going to be different
but still incredibly valuable. So here's an example.
So one of the presentations is going to be by
a ham named Randy Neal's W3RWN. And he was part
of a group that went down to Oregon after a wildfire
they had called the Holiday Farm Fire. The fire
cut off communications infrastructure to some
communities. And one of these communities that
was quite had the fiber optic cable and a bunch
of switching and so forth, as well as a cell
site that served them, all of that destroyed
in the fire. Randy and these other folks that
he'll be talking about in his presentation created
a group that they called Oregon Internet Response,
and they went down and put up communications
infrastructure, emergency internet access for
the folks there. And so the know -how that was
required to do that response had absolutely as
much to do with being good with TCPIP networking,
routing, switching, stuff like that, as it did
with ham radio itself. But it was hams that were
the majority of the folks that were part of Oregon
Internet Response. And so it was this recognition
that the spirit of ham radio in helping restore
communications where they're cut off married
to the realities of what kind of technical know
-how you're going to have to bring to that kind
of response. It was beautifully done. They got
the community back online, up and running. where
they had a center in the middle of the little
town that was affected where there was there
were big signs that said emergency internet access
and folks could get there and connect to that
wifi hotspot and and get out to the world so
that's one example uh... and i'll i'll pause
there but uh... anyway it's it really makes you
think about what needs to be in your toolkit
and for as far as skills go for being able to
uh... step in and help in various kinds of emergencies.
Well, that's a cool topic. And maybe let's, if
you've got one more, let's hit one more here
of something that people can expect to hear.
Yeah. So let's see, there is, we're going to
have a, you mentioned, I'm going to talk about
something that you touched on a second ago too,
where so many of the the events that we have
to respond to. have a command structure associated
with them. So, Tom, V -E -6 -T -O -X is going
to give a presentation called The Importance
of ICS in Addressing the Big Ones. And, you know,
a lot of folks listening, especially if they
have an interest in MCOM, probably are familiar
with ICS, the Incident Command System, which
is something that the National Incident Management
System created and that's connected to FEMA,
it's a system, a command structure that is consistent
and replicated across different types of agencies
that allows for a very structured way for folks
to interact. Different capacities and different
disciplines have a set of ways that they interact
with each other. This is highly applicable to
the kinds of situations that hams are gonna be
asked to step into age of disaster. So there's
an example of a presentation at Comm Academy
that's not very technical in nature but is extremely
important as far as how we can fit in and kind
of smoothly become part of the process. We're
going to take a break here in just a minute,
but let's tell people how they can attend, how
much this is going to cost, and where people
can find more information about Comm Academy.
Oh, so you mean I get to talk about my favorite
part of it, the price tag. Comm Academy is free.
It doesn't cost you a penny. And you can find
out all about it and pre -register. We're taking
pre -registration now. CommAcademy .org. Thank
you. If you're on social media, we're at Comm
Academy Conf, Charlie Oscar November Foxtrot
at the end for conference, Comm Academy Conf.
But I definitely encourage folks to come to the
website, commacademy .org, to find out more about
what we're talking about here and importantly
to pre -register. Pre -registering gets you on
an email list where we will send you updates
and let you know when the actual registration
on the platform itself is up and running. so
that you can get booked in. We don't have any
particular limit on our capacity, which is one
of the coolest things about Comm Academy this
year. But commacademy .org, that's where you
find out all the info. Okay, well, very good.
And then what will people need to connect? Is
it a Zoom platform or is it a similar platform?
How are you doing that? Yeah, you know what?
All you'll need is a browser and an internet
connection. It'll all be, you know, there will
be links sent, and so we're using a platform,
but you don't have to have any platform installed.
You will just need a browser and internet. Okay,
very good. Well, simple enough to attend, and
the price is right. It's free, so check them
out at Comm Academy, and that's two M's, by the
way, C -O -M -M, Academy .org. All right, well.
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just see what he sent us this week I've been
a ham for over 35 years and I can tell you, we
are not the most socially adept group of people
there are, especially when it comes to finding
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Number one, hey baby, I think we're on the same
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Rick. I always love 75 meter jokes. I'm always
telling them 75 meter jokes. So I love the, what's
a nice girl like you doing on 75 meters? This
doesn't help for, uh, for variety of points of
view here, but that was the one I was going to
name too, man. That was great. I hadn't thought
of that one before. I'm always telling 75 meter
jokes, or 7 ,200 jokes, but I guess that's not
a thing now. I don't know. Well, anyway. Who
knows? Don't make any mistake. We all love 75
meters. Yes, exactly. It's just you get a variety
on there. Everything from... You do. from politics
to religion to colonoscopies so and once in a
while they talk about ham radio too yeah and
ham radio you never know well it's time for your
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We're not here anymore. It's Thursday evening
as we're doing this and it looks like Looks like
we're getting some some messages here on Twitter.
So I will check those here in just a moment,
but I was digging around doing some research
and I saw that you had planned a three -day event
with some things called master classes and I
thought I'd give you a chance to kind of talk
about that a little bit and I know you know you're
disappointed in not being able to offer those
but is that on the plans for next year? Yeah,
we certainly plan to come back to something closer
to what we used to do But as I said augmented
by an an online capacity as well But yeah, you
know the the the idea here is that we want as
much as possible There's there's no substitute
for having the give -and -take of a live classroom
type environment and the way that we're going
to do Comm Academy 21 is the presentations by
the speakers are gonna be pre -recorded, and
then we'll play them during the time slots of
the April 10th and 11th. But during that time,
those presenters are gonna be live on the platform
for Q &A and interaction and like that. So in
that sense, it's kind of the best of both worlds
because when was the time that you ever got to
talk to a speaker while they were speaking, right?
On the stage, so to speak. So there will be interactivity,
but that's not the same as being able to do a
kind of almost more hands -on workshop. And so
we'll come back to that, hopefully next year,
once we're back to being able to be in person
again. So that has been part of Comm Academy
in the past. It will be part of Comm Academy
future. In the meantime, you know, there will
be, like I say, if you see something during a
presentation, you have a question, you wonder
about some specifics or where to get more learning
about that particular thing or whatnot, you will
be able to interact with the presenter through
our platform and get that information. All right.
Well, that sounds good. Well, we're getting some
messages in here, but if you want to give us
a phone call You can do that right now at eight
five nine Nine eight two seventy three seventy
three. Dr. Scott Wright k0md Got on the pickup
lines bandwagon apparently What's a nice lady
like you doing with a walk Sean? Yeah Yeah, he
says more 75 meter jokes, please So he also says
make sure that that people realize that this
is calm Academy not Khan Academy, which My so
that's a whole different thing all the time.
That's a whole different thing Khan Academy has
all kinds of good good science and math stuff
But this is calm C O M M Academy not K a H in
so there we go Yes, you know, it's funny that
yep, we used to have the official name was Communications
Academy, but everybody just called it calm Academy
So we thought well, let's just make the official
name the same thing that everybody calls it Exactly,
and if it were if it were in science, we'd make
it in an acronym There's an acronym for acronyms
like TLA is an acronym for three -letter acronym
the meta acronym Yeah, we always turn everything
into acronyms in science. Let's see, Chris A4CB
is with us again tonight and says, yay, Brooksville
Hamfest. So that's good. That's down in his area.
And Mike Braun, KB8ZYE, is with us from over
near Cincinnati. So thank you, Mike, for tuning
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So thanks for tuning in, Mike. And if you have
a question for Tim, give us a call, 859 -982
-7373, or you can tweet at HamTalk Live or on
the comments. Send us one and we'll get that
question answered. Another thing that I noticed
in doing some of the research here for the show
tonight is you've got an extensive archive on
the website. Talk a little bit about what you
can find there in the archives for some stuff.
Maybe you can go look at, if you can't wait until
the new stuff comes out, you can check out some
of the old stuff. Yeah, that's right. You know,
gee, we should have thought about having a quiz
on the previous 20 years worth of material for
folks that are coming in this year. But no, it's
true. If you come to the website, comacademy
.org, there is a menu there that will take you
to the archives. And we have archived presentations
from ComAcademy's previous, going back to 2001.
So if there's a particular topic around emergency
communications that you are interested in and
want to find information about it, there's a
really good chance that somewhere in those 20
years of archives, you can find that particular
topic. So I definitely encourage folks to go
and check that out, all absolutely free, available
to anybody. So the concept with Comm Academy
is very similar to the spirit of open source.
This is not protected. private information we
our whole point here is that we want to make
information about best practices and technical
stuff and whatnot available to as many folks
as as wanted and can so yeah that's why our archives
are 100 % open and available very good well let's
make one last opportunity here for a phone call.
It's 859 -982 -7373. We're gonna close down here
momentarily, so give us a call if you've been
waiting to do that. Do that right now. 859 -982
-7373. When it comes to... I'm going... Going
off the script here for a minute When it comes
to Safety when it comes to keeping Your responders
safe, what what are the the big things that that
are going to be addressed about? About that at
the Academy or has been addressed in previous
years Yeah, you know, that's a really good point.
As you mentioned in the intro, part of what I
do in my volunteer time is work with Seattle
ACS, Seattle Auxiliary Communication Service,
which is a type of organization that probably
a lot of your listeners are also part of in their
local areas if they're interested in MCOM. And
one of the points that Seattle ACS makes for
all of our membership regularly is that Personal
and organizational safety is key. You can't be
of much help in an emergency communications setting
if you yourself are compromised in one way or
another. So some of the briefings at Comm Academy,
some of the presentations, past and present,
have to do with personal safety and preparedness
and what you should... be prepared to deal with
whether those are things like what your go kit
should include, not just your radio go kit, but
your personal go kit with medical gear and water
and food supplies and stuff like that for yourself
and your family. And whether it's that or presentations
about hazards like winter driving and that sort
of thing. You, in order to be effective in helping
out the agencies that you are dedicated to serving
as a volunteer, you have to be squared away personally
and your family has to be taken care of. Everybody's
family comes first, right? But once those things
are squared away and we have a lot of information
in the archives on some of those topics, then
you are in a position to be able to really help
with whatever response is called for. Yeah, you
really have to make sure things are okay first
before you go out and ask to be deployed somewhere
because the last thing you want to happen is
be out somewhere and then all of a sudden you
have to go back and abandon your spot and go
back and take care of something that's... more
pressing at home and and so exactly always a
good idea to make sure that things are are good
to go before you go yeah i mean we people who
are so interested in radios and technical stuff
and everything it's easy for us to lose sight
of you know we can have our our go kit with radios
all figured out and sorted and we got our power
poles and we got our solar and we got all the
radios ready to rock And if we wind up on a deployment
and we don't have any water with us, we're going
to have a problem, right? So we have to remind
ourselves sometimes as enamored as we are of
the technology that we use that there are other
aspects to this preparedness that might not be
quite as fun, but that we've got to absolutely
have covered. I was in a club meeting here. at
the Southern Indiana Amateur Radio Association
and they were talking about these life straws.
And I had never heard of this as a chemistry
teacher. I thought I'd heard of one of those.
But, you know, just something like that that,
you know, can purify the water, you know, if
you need to. That's a good thing to have around.
And so I'm sure you have a lot of hints and tricks
like that. will be presented and people need
to check that out. So again, remind everybody
when this is, where it is, and how they can attend.
Yeah, absolutely. So we certainly encourage everybody
that even thinks you might be slightly interested
in this topic to come to Comm Academy. April
10th. and eleventh of this year uh... and you
can find out everything you need to know about
comacademy online comacademy that is charlie
oscar mike mike academy dot org uh... and uh...
you can sign up there you can uh... find out
we're gonna if our schedule of speakers isn't
up right now it will be very soon uh... And yeah,
that's really all you need to know. If you have
that URL, you can get all the rest of the information.
But April 10th and 11th, put it on the calendar.
All right, very good well Tim. Thank you so much
for all the work that you do on this and thank
you for coming on the show and Promoting this
and giving a chance for everyone to attend the
calm Academy 2021 and you know It could turn
into a more permanent thing. Again, necessity,
you know. It drives things. And so we may be
looking at more to come. So we'll be interested
to see how that goes. But thanks for coming on,
talking about everything and hope it goes well.
Well, thank you, Neil. It's been a blast and
absolutely thrilled that you invited me to be
on and hope to see lots and lots of folks for
Comm Academy this year. Alright, well check those
out and I'm sure Tim can answer questions too.
It's a Whiskey Tango One India Mike and you can
find him, I know, at QRZ .com. So if you have
questions, go to comacademy .org or get a hold
of Tim and they'll help you out. So that is a
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