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this evening is Bobby Graves Jr., KB5HAV. He
entered the world of electronics repair after
college in 1979. In 1992, he created and managed
a biomedical electronics service department for
a local company that went nationwide just two
years later. In addition, he built and maintains
computers and networks, designed software, facilitated
training to his staff and management. to use
those products. In 1994, Bobby created and managed
a research and development department. in which
he created new technologies and techniques. He
was forced into a medical retirement in early
1999 after 20 years in the business including
patient care and EMT services. Bobby became a
ham radio operator in July of 1988 and quickly
upgraded to general and in the fall of 88 He
learned about Skywarn and the National Weather
Service office in Jackson, Mississippi, was interested
in starting up a program. Over the next few months,
he and some friends helped create Mississippi
Skywarn. He began training weather spotters,
became an emergency coordinator, and by the middle
of 1990, became a district emergency coordinator.
And with the aid of some close friends, he helped
create the RACES group for Mississippi as well.
After his forced medical retirement, Bobby began
working closely with various HF nets on the 20
meter band. He was fortunate to be in the right
place in the right time. and to be a part of
several rescue operations as well as running
some phone patches, if you remember those, for
missionaries and doctors in Haiti, Honduras,
Guyana, and Nicaragua. Over the years, he's created
and maintained websites for the Maritime Mobile
Service Network and the Hurricane Watch Net.
From October 2002 to September 2006, Bobby served
as the assistant net manager for the Hurricane
Watch Net. Net and in April 2013 he was appointed
Net Manager. Bobby is a great example of someone
with a disability utilizing his abilities with
amateur radio and he believes that all others
can do the same. So good evening Bobby, thank
you and welcome to HamTalk Live. Good evening
Neil, it's great to be here tonight. Well, let's
start off just talking a little bit about the
beginnings of the hurricane watch net give us
a little history on the net and How and why it
came into existence You know real fine The hurricane
watching it was formed back in Labor Day weekend
of 1965 by Jerry Murphy K8 YUW of Cleveland,
Ohio at the time he was in the Navy and the what
they called the Navy Seabees or construction
battalion he was stationed up at Rhode Island
and During that time when he wasn't on duty He
was participating with the net called the back
in those days was called the international Intercontinental
amateur traffic net now known as intercon which
is a net on 14300 but Back in that day, it was
operating on 14 -3 -20. Well, the day he was
on Labor Day weekend, there was a lot of people
asking about a hurricane named Betsy that was
moving through the Bahamas. And it was going
to be a lot of commotion going on in the air
and was sort of disrupting the normal flow of
traffic that they had on that net. So Jerry asked
the net manager if he could move everyone who
was interested in the hurricane. up to 14 -3
-2 -5, and the net manager agreed, you know,
go ahead and do that. Well, as a lady friend
of his, it was down in the country of Panama
that followed him up to 14 -3 -2 -5, and they
began to relay the information between stations
that was in the Bahamas and Florida, and trying
to gather the latest weather data from the National
Hurricane Center to pass it on to those in the
Bahamas. And of course, you know, as the storm
was approaching the south end of Florida, people
were interested because, you know, 1965, we didn't
have cable or satellite TV, barely had one satellite,
a weather satellite in orbit, but it didn't do
a whole lot. So everybody was interested, you
know, what's going on with this storm? And of
course, the storm came through the Bahamas, went
through the south end of Florida. Then a couple
of days later throughout that Labor Day weekend
of 1965 it slammed into southeastern Louisiana
and in 1965 dollars it created cost over 1 billion
as with a B 1 billion dollars worth of damage
and it earned the storm the name billion dollar
Betsy and After that this Jerry and a bunch of
folks started gathering together and trying to
formalize the net and just grew from there. Well
these things do happen and we were talking before
the show that Mother Nature seems to be complaining
a lot here lately with the hurricanes and the
earthquakes and everything and so there's a real
need for that and of course before we had all
the weather satellites and all the great technology
We really needed it and we still need it now
And so tell us a little bit about what the role
is of the hurricane watch net these days And
what information you collect and what information
you pass over ham radio? Yeah, real fine. Well,
it's just like with the local sky war nets I
know there's a lot of folks in this day and age
think well, you know, we've got all the fancy
Doppler radar. We've got a lot of nice weather
satellites that are in orbit. We've got the United
States Air Force and even the NOAA hurricane
hunters that fly in the storm to gather all kind
of data. You know, why do we need ham operators
to help out during these storms? Well, it's just
like with your local Skywar Net. With all this
new data technology we have, it's great. But
there's something about what God gave us with
their own eyes, ears, the things we're able to
see. If we are in a position where we can see
this is what the storm is doing and with weather
instruments we can tell the forecaster this is
where the wind is coming from at what speed we're
seeing this kind of damage so on and so forth.
That's valuable data to the forecasters because
they're trying to use all this information to
figure out what's going on at the surface at
sea level and there's been many occasions where
we'll have information from some of our reporting
stations, we'll feed that back to the forecasters,
and they may come back and ask, can you clarify
that again? Because our instruments are showing
the center of the storm is at this location,
and we'll come back and give them the information
and say, well, due to the information you gave
us, that'll let us know the storm is not where
we thought it is. It's, you know, maybe 10 or
15 miles further south or in a different direction.
I remember there was one storm I believe it's
in around 2002 and it was moved, it already crossed
Cuba and was moving through the Bahamas. And
looking at satellite imagery, it looked like
the storm was falling apart. Tell us what happened
to all the cloud tops that then got blown off.
Well, we were getting reports from sailboats
out there with wind speeds up around 90 miles
per hour or better. Well, that's letting you
know it's a strong category one hurricane. Well,
the people in the Bahamas were getting ready
to lower the warning status from a hurricane
warning down to a tropical storm warning. Well,
back in those days, Max Mayfield was the director
of the National Hurricane Center. Well, he got
on the phone. All the directors of the Bahamas
said, look, don't lower your status from hurricane
warning down to tropical storm warning. You've
still got hurricane -force winds out there, so
keep it up. And there's been a lot of occasions
like that, and the reports we've gotten will
help give a better report about what's going
on with the storm. One of the ones that really
blew my mind is sort of an interesting story.
When I first joined the hurricane back in 2000,
the first one we worked that year was a storm
by the name of Keith. It hit around October of
that year. And what was interesting is that storm
hit the country of Belize and there was one time
that storm just hours before it made landfall.
I was one of the net controls at the time and
I got a report that the winds was so strong out
of the north that it blew all the water out of
the bay of Chetumal and people were out walking
on what used to be It's a big lake. And I'm thinking,
this ain't good. Please, guys, tell them to get
out of there. Because when that water comes back
in, you know, it's going to be ugly. We got that
report into the Hurricane Center. And Stacy Stewart,
who is one of the hurricane specialists, got
word of it. And not only did he, instead of sending
word back to the radio stations they're at, located
at the National Hurricane Center, He got on there
himself and said please tell those folks to get
out of there because when the water comes back
they're going to drown So, uh, I mean, but can
you imagine you living in an area? Been there
all your life and in the you see this bay that's
been always full of water But yet all of a sudden
it's empty from this storm, you know Makes people
probably thinking what in the world's going on
here. So uh, but you know, you find amazing things
that happen and uh because Outside the United
States, a lot of the countries throughout the
Caribbean, they don't have all the technologies
that we have, plus they don't even have their
own weather service. They get the majority of
their weather from the United States and a lot
of it comes by way of ham radio. Well, it sounds
like it's very similar to around this area. We're
spotting tornadoes and looking at that, but the
radar can only go down so far. And the radar
can only see certain things, so you need those
eyes and ears out there in the field to observe
those things and report it back. And there's
no replacement for that human connection there
to see all of those things. Now, in your area,
then, in your SkyWarn training, do you have special
hurricane spotters kind of thing where we kind
of focus on tornadoes here do you have certain
criteria that you're looking for specifically
or is that kind of the same same kind of thing
so that's an interesting question with course
with Skywarn you're trained with people here
in the United States is a certain things to Look
forward as far as the cloud pattern so you start
looking for what they call a wall cloud and or
start looking for rotation Difference between
a funnel cloud and that of a actual tornado But
as far as you know spotting hurricanes well,
we've got big satellites that are really good
at doing that part Where where we come in at
is to try to get the actual? Ground truth data
is what's actually going on at the surface and
as to confirm or unconfirm what the wind speeds
are. Some of these hurricanes, the wind field,
as far as the hurricane strength winds, may only
stand out like 10 to 15 miles, kinda like it
did with Hurricane Otto that hit on Thanksgiving
Day just a couple weeks or so ago. Then you got
other storms like Katrina back in 2005. Well,
those hurricane -force winds may extend outwards
up to 150 miles. And so there's a lot of discrepancy
on the storms on how they form and how big they
get. And by having spotters or reporting stations,
as we call them, that can give us weather information,
we'd like to get everything measured if possible.
Of course, there are ways you can estimate wind
speed. And it's called using the Beaufort wind
scale. And if you're unfamiliar with that, you
can visit our website at hwn .org. And there's
a link at the top that's called useful tools.
Click on that and there's a link that after that
is called Beaufort wind scale. But anyway, it
gives you a lot of information on how you can
look at how the wind is doing and give a really
good estimate of what the wind speed is from
that. If the if they're calling for like 75 mile
per hour winds at say like We'll just pull in
a town out of the hat and say like in Miami,
Florida Well, they're only getting maybe 25 miles,
but then you go further south. Well, that's where
the 75 mile per hour winds are at We get that
information to the forecasters that will let
them know Well, maybe the center of the storm
is moving a little bit further south than what
we were expecting and that can allow them to
know what to give a correction on the the path
of the storm And those change constantly they
constantly change and that's another thing we
always try to alert folks to is When you're looking
at that fine dotted line that showing where the
track of it is That's that like you say that
can change if you're in that in that big swath
or even in just the warning area then you need
to watch out because I mean that's the storms
can change and And sometimes, you know, a really
great storm story I've seen was back in 1985.
We had a storm that was named Elena. It came
across Cuba, and it came right across the Gulf
of Mexico. It looked like it was going to hit
Gulfport, Mississippi. And then about halfway
up the Gulf, the storm made a 90 -degree turn,
and it starts heading towards the Tampa Bay,
Florida area. Well, I happened to be on the Gulf
Coast that night, or that day working on equipment,
and I knew the storm was heading that direction.
When I got home about midnight, I turned on the
TV to see, well, how bad is Tampa getting hit?
Well, they're not getting hit at all. There's
hurricane warnings back from Mississippi because
that storm made a 180 turn, and it started coming
right back to Gulfport, Mississippi. So like
we say, when they show what that dotted line
is, You know, pay attention, but don't let that
be, you know, why am I side of that line? So
I'm safe. No, these storms can't change. And
as I say, when you think you got mother nature
figured out, she will change on you. So, absolutely.
Well, uh, we do need to take a break, but before
we do, um, want to jump in a little bit to how
hams can help with the net. And, and it may be
as simple as. Stay off this frequency, you know
To keep the frequencies clear. I know that was
an issue with some of the big ones that you've
had to deal with this year and who should report
and who shouldn't and what you should report
so give us a quick rundown of how hams can interact
or Help the interaction that needs to take place
with the net. Yeah, sure Yeah, I wouldn't say
we don't want anybody on the frequency. I mean,
we need people around to listen. And we welcome
people to listen, but follow the lead of the
net control operator because what we're looking
for, we'll always announce the areas that we're
looking to get information out of. And such information
we're looking for is wind speed, wind direction,
wind gust. If your information is measured or
estimated, we always prefer the measured data,
but we'll take estimated. If you are using measured
measuring equipment, let us know the height and
location of your ananometer. That's very important.
Say, for instance, you've got your ananometer,
which is your wind speed indicator. If you've
got it mounted on the gable end of your house,
it's maybe only like two or three feet above
the gable, your information is gonna be wrong.
Because when wind hits the pitched roof will
actually that wind will speed up trying to get
over it So you may be indicating 50 mile per
hour winds when all actuality may be 25 So knowing
the location of that an anometer is as important
to us as well other information We're looking
for is if you have a barometer. Let us know what
the barometer pressure is This trend whether
it's falling or rising How much rain? over X
amount of time on the rainfall you're getting
any damage reports from your location if it's
safe to get that. If you're close to the coastal
area and it's safe to do so, let us know what
the storm surge is doing. The forecasters this
year started putting out storm surge warnings
and they're trying to get a better grasp on that
due to the size and strength of the storm on
how much the storm surge will do. And then also
knowing how much rainfall is coming down, they
may have to up the forecast on the overall rainfall
as the storm moves further inland. And that's
the type of information we're looking for. Wind,
wind speed, wind gust, wind direction, barometric
pressure, damage, and storm surge. And all that
information is very vital to helping the forecasters
give a more accurate forecast on what the storm
is doing and where it's headed. All right great
information and we'll give some people a chance
to call in and ask some questions when we come
back but we will take a quick break and we'll
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If you have a question about the Hurricane Watch
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Ham 1, 812 -638 -4261 to ask your questions of
Bobby Graves. the Hurricane Watch Net Manager.
While we're waiting on those calls to roll in
here, Bobby, I wanted to ask you about a story
or two where there was directly lives saved as
a result of some of these nets that you're involved
in. That's a very good question One comes to
mind right off the bat Over the past most since
about 2005 that the number of landfalling hurricanes
has just been very very small and especially
here in the United States and I know a lot of
the forecasters I've talked to and even a lot
of emergency managers have admitted to something
known as hurricane and hurricane amnesia. Folks,
it's just been such a long time since we've had
any type of storm to cause any really bad damage
or a lot of lives being lost. But when Hurricane
Matthew a couple months ago was forming and getting
geared up really big and strong just off of the
Nicaragua, Colombian coast and grew up to be
a A very strong category five hurricane with
maximum sustained winds at a hundred and sixty
miles per hour. First CAT5 storm we've had in
the Atlantic Basin since 2007, which was Felix
that hit Nicaragua in 07. The storm was just
sitting there and stalled. It would move a little
bit and not go anywhere, but it kept looking
like it was going to hit either Jamaica or either
Haiti, then move on up to Cuba. The Bahamas and
then who knows after that but while it was on
after the storm started getting a better idea
of what was going I just sent an email blast
a lot of ham friends that I have in Jamaica as
well as Haiti and To my amazement. It's like
two days away now a Couple guys there in Haiti
send me an email back saying thanks for letting
us know about this, but you're not going to believe
it The country of Haiti has not even told us
anything about a hurricane being in the Atlantic
Thanks for letting us know. How bad is it? I
said, it's just not a hurricane This is a cat
five right now and it's coming towards you and
whether or not it makes landfall there on Haiti
the amount of rain this forecast which is upwards
of 40 inches of rain up in the mountain areas
that's gonna create a lot of flooding and mudslides
and The day before the storm actually hit Haiti
One of the same guys called me back. They actually
picked the phone and called me He said you're
not gonna believe it The government of Haiti
just finally let us know there is a hurricane
coming but not to worry It's not going to be
that bad I'm thinking you've got to be kidding
me. This is still a cat for storm at a hundred
and forty five miles per hour Please whatever
you can do I know it's just a few hams that are
on there in Haiti, but if you can, just keep
on like I told you the other day, keep spreading
the word across the country to do whatever you
can to secure, to help protect yourselves. I
know it's going to be tough. I know it's a poor
country. Getting the word spread across is going
to be tough, but you know, this is a killer storm
coming, so do whatever you can to do that. Thank
goodness my contacts there they survived but
there's quite a few that did not and that's the
country that got devastated just like Eastern
Cuba did but I'm glad I sent those email blasts
to folks in those regions of course like I did
trying to reach out to those that I could find
and throughout the Bahamas and of course as the
storming started getting towards the United States
then I also sent out email blasts to the ARRL
section managers division directors and state
emergency coordinators throughout the region
that looked like it was going to be hit. So they
didn't know if we'd be there and anything we
could do to help before, during, and after the
storm. But yeah, it's hard to say how many lives
you actually saved when you start seeing afterwards.
There was a lot that perished, but it's better
than... I just hate to know what would happen
if I hadn't because I would not have been able
to sleep with myself. So that's the best we can
do is just get out before and then of course
while we're on the air keep letting people know
this is what the storm is doing and whether we're
getting ham operators coming back. We do know
this. There's a lot of people throughout the
Caribbean that are shortwave listeners and I
get emails from various folks in various locations
that say thank you. Thank you for being there.
you are our only means of getting weather information
of what the storm's doing, where it's forecast
to go, and allowing us to know whether it's safe
to get out, what to do, and so on and so forth.
Well, that's a great service that you and the
hams that are involved are offering to all of
those people. So we are very grateful and thankful
that that you and your team are taking this on
and doing that. So congratulations on all of
that. And yeah, it's hard to believe that they
wouldn't have a warning on a Cat 5 hurricane,
but that's the kind of thing that happens. We're
lucky to have that resource here. 812 -NET -HAM
-1 is the telephone number, 812 -638 -4261. We'd
like to get your calls in here. We have just
a few minutes left, so if you have a chance,
give us a call or give us a tweet here. If you
have a question about the Hurricane Watch Net
or SkyWarn or just a question for Bobby, let
us know. We have just a few minutes left. 812,
Net Ham 1, 812, 638, 4261, call now. So we'll
keep waiting here and see if we pick up anybody.
We do have a few minutes here. What do you see?
as the near future of the hurricane watch net
water. Are you looking for coming up? Are there
any major changes you're looking at making? I
know we've heard that some of the emergency alert
tones have been updated. There's some some new
ones for next season. Tell us a little bit about
the future of what you expect to to come for
the hurricane watch net? Well the biggest thing
I've been working on is to increase our, well
just not our numbers, to like get members and
locations that were like in states or maybe countries
we don't have any. But I'm also working to increase
the number of bilingual operators because since
we're now a 24 -hour operating net prior to the
2011 season, the hurricane watch net pretty much
operated on 20 meters only on 14 -325 and that's
pretty much always bothered me and because storms
make landfall at nighttime and 20 meters at nighttime
you know it fades away until the next morning
when propagation comes back and in 2011 we started
testing the idea of operating on 40 possibly
even 75 meters that was during Hurricane Irene
we tried again in 2012 with Isaac and Superstorm
Sandy. And when I became a net manager in 2013,
I just made our protocol. When we need to activate
for a storm, we're going 24 -7 until no longer
a threat. And since these storms affect a lot
of areas that have Spanish -speaking people,
say like Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, some of
the Caribbean islands, We need to have people
that can help, you know, translate Spanish into
English and vice versa. And I've been working
to increase those numbers and hope we're out
of a membership of 40. We've got 10 members now
that are fully bilingual. Actually, we've got
one guy that speaks five languages. He's there
on the island of Aruba, P43 Lima. His name is
Losandro. He's the... meteorologist at the airport
there in Aruba. I can't remember all the languages
he speaks. I know he speaks Spanish, English,
French, Italian, and then the language they use
there in the islands. I forget the name of that
language, but he speaks five languages, fluently
even. But we're looking to, I'd love to double
that number over the next five to ten years.
And we're also in the process of revamping our
website and getting into what we're doing here,
podcasting, looking to create a podcast for the
Hurricane WatchNet to help out on outreach and
education, something that Dr. Rick Knapp is really
pushing for. So we're looking forward to getting
that kicked off spring of 2017. Sounds great.
Hey, we've got a couple of tweets here from Dr.
Scott Wright, KZeroMD. He wants to know a couple
of things. First of all, he does spend some time.
in Turks and Caicos, especially during CQ Worldwide.
So he wants to know if you've got anybody involved
in the net from that area. And then the other
thing is he wants to know if you've used any
digital modes to transmit any kind of data or
images over the air in addition to you know,
the raw data. Are you able to transmit any pictures
or use D -Star or anything like that or Windlink
to transmit those? Well, Dr. Scott, I appreciate
the question and we used to have a net member
there on the Turks and Caicos, Burl VP5DB Delta
Bravo. He's been quite busy over the past few
years, other things going on. I hope one day
we can get him back involved with us. As far
as the digital stuff, years ago, one of our co
-founders for the Hurricane Net had a Amtor running
FEC mode to transmit weather data. This was back
before the days of the internet. He was Colonel
Don Kay, K -0 IND, lives down in Panama City
Beach, Florida, and he was able to get a direct
weather feed from the local weather office to
his house, and then in turn would send out some
of the weather, all the tropical weather data,
as far as the advisories, bulletins, so on and
so forth, by way of Amtor to our other members
and anybody else that could receive it. And of
course, you know, nowadays with the internet,
you can get almost instantly by various means.
But to answer your question, one thing I'm looking
at is the idea of using WinLink for forwarding
data into the Hurricane Center in case there
is an internet blackout. Say, for instance, the
center loses means of getting data in. Maybe
we can get some pictures in from different locations
that are used as attachments. that may be sent
to one of our members, then of course we can
pour that onto the Hurricane Center as well.
So yeah, we're looking at that. We're not using
it now, but we are giving those ideas some test.
Very good. Sounds like some promising use of
the digital technology. coming ahead. Well we
are out of time so I want to thank you for being
there and that is a wrap for this week's edition
of HamTalk Live. I'd like to thank my guest Bobby
Graves KB5HAV and all the listeners out there
in cyberspace. and for Scott for tweeting in
and invite you back next Thursday night at 9
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