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Cascadia Coastal Coalition

Ralph KA8ZGM has provided information on upcoming talks from the Cascadia Coastal Coalition:

Talks are free and can be viewed in-person or by zoom.  Watch www.cascadiacoastalcoalition.org for updates and zoom info. RalphKA8ZGM

Next Upcoming Event: Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 10:00 am 

• What:   Spring Speaker Series
• Who: 
• Session 1: Yumei Wang, PE, FASCE, Owner of SLS LLC, and Senior Advisor on Infrastructure
• Resilience and Risk Affiliate Faculty, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Portland State University. 

• Cascadia Catastrophe in Coastal Communities

• Wang will discuss the expected catastrophic impacts from a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami on coastal communities, describing tsunami casualty estimates in each community, the breakdown of the Highway 101’s bridges that will result in a series of “islands”, and specific challenges that hospitals face in preparing for this inevitable disaster. People need to help reduce the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, including a Cascadia catastrophe. The “triple 3 resilience target” integrates readiness, response and recovery goals to strengthen community resilience. She will share fuel and water disaster planning guidelines aimed to help coastal hospitals prepare for “the big one”.

• Session 2:  Sky Terry , NW Regional Emergency Services Director.  Emergency Volunteer Aviation Team from NW Washington. http://www.evac.org/  and  http://www.evac.org/northwest.htm

• Hello, 

• Sky Terry is the NW Regional Emergency Services Director for the Emergency Volunteer Air Corps (EVAC) and also one of the leaders of the West Coast General Aviation Response Plan (WCGARP).

• It’s been well over a decades worth of drills, responses and effort but what we’ve developed together is a aviation based resource tied with ground support and HAM communication that we believe is the juggernaut that can take the worst the planet can dish out and can rise to the occasion to be that life saving critical life line when it’s needed the most.  Below is just one video of one of our past drills.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJFjoXDgWQ&t=277s

• Thank you again for being willing to be a part of this noble effort and below is our main website with some great additional information.

• www.evac.org/northwest.htm

Friday Forums: Digital Voice: April 8

We accommodate multiple digital voice modes on the 2nd Friday, typically opening breakout rooms for separate discussions. A robust D-star group will be updating their latest exploits. The Yaesu Fusion group plans to focus this month on basic operation of the FT70D.

AA7XA Antenna Raising

News from W7KKE:

In the Otis fire, Frank, AA7XA, lost his home and all his ham radio equipment. Today Daron, N7HQR, Eric, AF7EU, and myself repaired Frank’s damaged HF ground plane which survived the fire but the balun and coax didn’t. So a new balun and coax was installed for that antenna.

Frank bought a 300’ end fed long wire and today Eric shot a line over a cedar tree a few lots away and hoisted up the end of that antenna, a major accomplishment. This antenna should perform very well.

Daron installed a nice through-wall fixture to route the coax inside and pounded in a new ground rod.  While Daron and Eric were busy with their tasks I routed the coax and attached it to the facia.

This evening I messaged Frank asking how his new 300 ft longwire was working and he replied “Like gangbusters!”.  We’re all really happy Frank is back on the air, at least on HF.

Here’s a few photos of today’s festivities:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6lie06os7yt53uj/AAAmsXCqn0OvJgIqtvbT781Wa?dl=0