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{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\sb100\sa100\f0\fs24\line\line An Electronic NEwsletter of the ARRL National Traffic System\line\line Richard WEbb, nf5b, editor\line\line\line PUBLISHED BY TRAFFIC HANDLERS FOR TRAFIC HANDLERS\line\line\line NTS Region area and tcc stats:\line\line NTS resources: http://www.arrl.org/nts\line\line\line\line\line\line Volume IV Issue 2 \line\line COpyright 2010 by THe ARRL National Traffic SYstem \line\line\line\line\line Contents\line\line\line Editor's corner\line NTS news briefs\line\line General articles: Water Water Everywhere (KR4OR's Cheap and Lazy Hams Antenna HydroMast\line BPQ features: don't laugh yet, the big emp!\line HOw to submit an article \line Where to get BPQ \line\line THIs electronic newsletter is free to all who may wish to\line receive it. YOu may upload it to bulletin board systems; ftp sites etc. so\line long as no fees are charged for access to it. INdividual articles\line retain the copyright of the author.\line\line\line\line EDITOR'S CORNER\line\line\line ********\line\line Plan your work, then work your plan\line\line\line As I write this it's the MOnday evening after the earthquake\line in Chile. I've been sitting here reading another electronic\line publication which deals with amateur radio, and emergency\line communications. AS usual, it offers some good food for\line thought.\line\line I've been doing some cogitating, because I don't think I\line gave a good answer to a question I was asked SAturday\line morning. before I get to answering the question let me tell\line you how it is I came to be thinking about it at all.\line\line I was doing other work around here, 14300 khz tuned on my\line transceiver and the volume high enough I could hear it\line throughout the house as I went about some chores. I heard\line some discussion of the tsunami warnings, and figured it was\line a good thing to keep one's eyes and ears toward.\line\line A fairly new traffic handler jingles my phone that morning\line and wants to know what response NTS is prepared to make. He\line also expressed some concerns that he wasn't hearing any NTS\line activity after the Haiti earthquake except the normal book\line messages. I think that we cleared that up when I explained\line that formal NTS basically covers the U.S. and CAnada.\line\line But then he asks this question. IF NTS isn't prepared to\line respond to such as this Tsunami then what good is it? Why do\line we do all this work?\line\line THe problem isn't that we're not prepared, at all. NTS\line people on the west coast I'm sure were prepared. They were\line prepared to bring up tactical circuits if the need arose.\line They were prepared to handle a higher than normal volume of\line traffic, were this necessary. But, making plans before the\line fact is counterproductive. IT's sort of like the old phrase\line "he jumped on his horse and rode madly off in all\line directions."\line\line NEt managers and area staff personnel do of course need to\line be aware of such conditions as that earthquake and the\line tsunami warning, and need to be thinking ahead of time about\line how the system should respond. But, until the need is\line actually known and the available resources surveyed there is\line little point to doing a whole lot of planning. As it turned\line out, CHile handled things quite well with its own\line communications infrastructure and utilizing some amateur\line radio. THe state of Hawaii has a good civil defense plan,\line and the citizens responded appropriately. Mobilizing a\line massive effort of NTS personnel in the pacific area would\line have been counterproductive at the time this op called me on\line the phone.\line\line Had things turned out different for Hawaii or elsewhere\line along our pacific coast I'm sure that NTS leadership\line throughout the system would have responded rapidly, and\line adequately, whether that be bringing up extended sessions of\line the region net for the effected region; extra TCC skeds,\line pressing additional digital stations into service, etc.\line\line We in NTS must remain vigilant so as to be able to respond\line appropriately to these emergencies, but it does little good\line to put the cart before the horse. We have to remember that,\line even with a disaster such as a hurricane, or the\line aforementioned potential disasters with the TSunami, that\line the first few hours aren't going to provide us with much of\line an opportunity to serve, unless we live nearby. REgular\line traffic handlers within the disaster zone are going to be\line busy assisting served agencies and their families. THey'll\line be needed to man tactical nets and step into the void\line created when the communications infrastructure crumples.\line After a few hours to a day or so they'll be able to offer\line such services as outbound health and welfare traffic for the\line displaced. That's when the rest of the system needs to be\line ready to respond with adequate capability to keep this\line traffic moving toward its destination.\line\line An old adage I live by says "plan your work, then work your\line plan." Before you can plan your work, you must know what\line that work is.\line\line THere's another part of planning your work, however. WE\line don't exist in a vacuum here in NTS. IN fact, over the last\line decade we've seen a steady erosion in the respect the system\line is given by those in the volunteer emergency communications\line community. Yet, when listening to tactical nets utilizing\line voice, I can tell right away if ncs has done any work as a\line net control for a busy traffic net. I can tell which\line operators are seasoned traffic handlers.\line\line NTS still trains and provides quality operators to these\line local and regional tactical nets, although their NTS\line participation is never acknowledged as the reason they are\line high quality operators.\line\line Past leaders in the system thought long and hard about how\line the system should work. THey brainstormed, tested ideas in\line practice and worked out a system which can provide 24/7\line coverage for the disaster area, and the rest of the country.\line Trained operators are available, their stations ready to go.\line some who are still able bodied are even able, willing, and\line trained to deploy to help their neighbors in need. But, we\line can't expect our resources to be utilized if those on the\line sharp end of the emcomm rope don't understand what we do,\line and that we can still be effective when we're needed.\line\line why don't they understand this? We who are traffic handlers\line haven't really reached out to educate our section emergency\line coordinators and those they lead. We haven't publicized what\line emergency plans we've developed to bring our region and area\line nets online for extended operations to support emcomm. WE\line haven't made sure that the section leaders we serve can\line reach us easily to ask us to mobilize those resources. IF\line they don't know you're there, you won't get the call.\line\line We have good people out here ready and willing to help. SOme\line of them are newcomers who got involved just for this reason.\line That's why they came to us. They wanted the training we\line provide, but they want something more than make work\line exercises and the same ole same ole. They want to feel that\line they're in a position to actually contribute when that brown\line stuff hits the fan blades.\line\line YEs, we need to train these newcomers, and we need to\line emphasize that if you want to be part of the action you've\line got to get the training. NO two ways about it, you've got to\line have the training.\line\line Along with asking them to do the parts of the training that\line after awhile don't seem to be fun, and reinforce lessons\line already learned through repetition we owe them something\line else. We owe these newcomers our efforts at promoting the\line system, addressing quality control issues and presenting our\line system as a high quality resource that the public can count\line on. NOtice I didn't mention agencies here, although they're\line part of that public we serve. I don't define that public by\line a bunch of alphabet soup or other agency acronyms. Section\line 97.1 of the rules means what it says, that we are there to\line serve "the public" in times of emergency or disaster.\line\line On the other hand, newcomers should understand that we\line provide the basic foundation. They should get involved in\line their local ares groups, demonstrate their abilities by\line volunteering to take net control slots and handle other\line duties. Meanwhile, they should take advantage of training\line offered them by the agencies we serve. THe effort to educate\line the emergency coordinators doesn't end with us in leadership\line positions, it goes all the way to every regular NTS\line participant.\line\line FInally consider this. The ARRL division I reside in has a\line memorandum of understanding in place among its sections which\line assures them of mutual aid when a disaster warrants it.\line THis means that when a hurricane threatens the gulf coast\line we're prepared to stand up an emergency tactical net.\line Since I've become the net manager for this net I've been\line doing some recruiting as we've lost a few net controls over\line the last couple of years, and we can always use more.\line DUring hurricane Katrina a multi-section tactical net\line operated for a period of about two weeks straight, 24 hours\line a day, 7 days a week. COnsider net control shifts as\line two hour tours of duty. THis means that I might need quite a\line few good net control stations.\line\line WHo do I look to first when seeking volunteers willing to be\line called up? I look to those I know have experience in\line controlling busy nets. Especially for the first few hours of\line operation I want those net controls outside the affected\line area who have proven ability to handle fast paced busy nets.\line As time passes I'll try to assign those operators I don't\line know as well who have stepped up to the plate.\line\line THis is where our high quality traffic handlers should be\line serving when that old brown stuff hits the fan blades. This\line is also why I'm not going to get all heated up about\line standing up a nationwide response involving the system,\line until it's known what is needed. As an area chair for\line central area, in the situation of the Tsunami I would take\line my cues from NTS leaders in the pacific area, who are closer\line to the situation and can better formulate an appropriate plan.\line\line\line 73 de nf5b\line\line Larry, kc0m is now Central area net cycle two manager. WElcome aboard Larry!\line\line IN other central area news, we're still seeking a tcc\line director for cycles 1 and 2. IF you're within the bounds of\line the central area and can help please contact me. Along with\line tcc director for cycles 1-2 we're also looking for stations\line to maintain tcc schedules during daytime hours. I'd like to\line hear from you if you are interested. MOst of this activity\line customarily takes place on the central area net, but there\line is some flexibility. Drop me an email at {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "mailto:nf5b@arrl.net"}}{\fldrslt{\cf1\ul nf5b@arrl.net}}}\cf0\ulnone\f0\fs24  for\line more info.\line\line IN our final bit of news from central area, NTS DAve k4wwv\line our central area digital coordinator has sure hit the ground\line running with some new stations up on digital and even the\line return of some who'd become inactive. THanks for your good\line work DAve!\line\line\line\line\line\line IF you hadn't noticed already, links to your favorite ARRL\line resources may have changed with the new upgraded web\line capabilities at hq. THe new NTs resources site is\line http://www.arrl.org/nts\line\line\line ********\line\line do you need to easily get some antenna support happening for\line the station when deployed? So long as city water pressure\line is available, even if you can't drink it, you have a method\line for erecting portable antenna support without the serious\line expense of dollars or brute force. Check this out!\line\line Thanks to DAle, kr4or for this one.\line\line Water Water Everywhere (KR4OR's Cheap and Lazy Hams Antenna HydroMast\line\line By DAle Botwin, kr4or\line\line\line There is a source of power that does not come from linear amplifiers. \line It is called city-water-pressure and a cheap and lazy ham can exploit it \line to build yes, a 42 foot mast. I call it the HydroMast and it has\line saved an aging ham the effort of putting up and down a telescoping PVC \line mast of my own construction some years back.\line\line Imagine yourself going to the garden hose spigot, turning it on full and \line watching as another kind of telescoping PVC mast goes from a height of \line 14 feet steadily rising to 42 feet. Of course the mast is guyed, at two \line levels. When it is up, you turn off the spigot. You trim up the guy \line lines that you have been carefully tending as the mast rose. You stroll \line over to the base of the mast and open a valve to let the water come \line slowly out of this 42 foot column of white plastic - and lo nothing\line happens. The mast remains at its full elevation, even as it is \line completely emptied of water.\line\line Happy with things, you go back to the shack and start serving the \line community-at-large on 20 meters through such outlets as the Maritime \line Mobile Service Net, or many many other such service opportunities. Or \line ummmm, maybe you call "CQ Contest." However you enjoy our hobby, you\line know that you have a mast that can be put up to full height and also \line taken down quickly and with very little physical effort on your part.\line\line There are some delights that rival even a sunspot cycle peak.\line\line Reflecting back on how you built this marvel, you realize that it was \line not a trivial expense. All told, perhaps $250 were spent on materials. \line Then again, you have built yourself very nearly the equivalent of \line pneumatic masts that cannot be had even used for much less than $10,000. \line And you built it yourself.\line\line Here's how I put mine together - maybe you will want to do this as well.\line\line I sank a 3 foot or so section of 6" Schedule 40 PVC about a foot into\line the ground, directly under the center of a bracket I had made that will \line bracket the mast to the roof at a height of about 10 feet. Of course \line your own project will have to conform to your environment, but it is \line important to have the mast stable laterally at more or less 10 feet.\line\line This buried section is the base on which the mast will sit. It is \line easily possible to make the HydroMast such that the entire mast can be \line rotated, if you like. To do so you will need for the roof bracket not \line to bind the mast, and also your guy stations will have to be on rings of \line some sort to allow the mast to rotate.\line\line Behold the mast itself. A 10 foot section of 6" PVC has a PVC cap \line cemented to one end. About a foot or so above the cap, you have placed \line two garden hose fittings. One of them will receive water from the hose \line and the other will have a ball valve on it to let water out of the column.\line\line About 2 feet from the other end of this bottom-most 6" section are two\line short bolts across the diameter from each other, running from the \line outside of the pipe inwards about an inch. You have used these bolts to \line tap their own threads into the PVC wall. For the moment the bolts are \line in the threads but they do not extend their full length into the pipe. \line This is so that you can slide in the next section, because these are \line 'stop bolts, explained in the next paragraph.\line\line Inside this 6" section is a 4" section of PVC. In my case the 4"\line section is 14 feet long. At one end of it a standard 4" coupling is\line cemented on. Through the coupling there are 4 bolts protruding outward \line from the 4" section, just long enough to barely contact the inside of\line the 6" section. These serve as "guide" bolts to minimize any skewing of\line the 4" piece within the 6" piece. The "stop" bolts in the 6" section\line mentioned above are turned in just enough so that the coupling cannot \line pass them as this 4" section rises upward through the 6" section.\line\line At the other end of the 4" section, about 1.5 feet from the end are two\line bolts arranged similarly to the "stop" bolts described above, but\line somewhat shorter. These are the "stop" bolts that will 'catch' the\line coupling of the next section.\line\line Inside the 4" section is a 10 foot 3" section, also with coupling and\line guide bolts on one end and stop bolts about a foot away from the other \line end. A 3" coupling will not fit into a 4" section of pipe, so you have\line bench-ground or lathe the coupling so that it will fit into the 4"\line section with some wiggle room (do not make this a tight fit.)\line\line Inside the 3" section is a similarly fashioned 2" section, the final\line section of the mast.\line\line And there you have it - the HydroMast.\line\line But wait! There's something missing. You need a way to both couple and\line seal these 4 sections together. So you have purchased 3 rubber \line reducing-couplings: a 6" to 4", a 4" to 3" and a 3" to 2 inch. And you\line have gotten some extra stainless steel hose clamps to supplement the \line ones that came with the rubber couplings. Actually you want 2 extra \line clamps for the larger end of each rubber coupling.\line\line So, in our mind's eye, let's take the HydroMast apart again and imagine\line that you have slid these rubber couplings onto the respective parts, and \line that you have triple clamped very tightly the larger end of each.\line\line Make sure that the upper portions of each rubber coupling are pretty \line firmly clamped on. The friction provided there will prevent the mast \line from collapsing under its own weight. You may not believe it right now, \line but when you 'inflate' this gimmick with regular water pressure it will\line easily overcome this friction on the way up.\line\line Now you have a sealed and coupled Hydro Mast. Pick it up. Hah hah. \line Anyway, mount it on the base and secure it in the roof bracket.\line\line You're a ham so you already know how to set up two guying levels for the\line beast and all is rigged and ready. Turn on the spigot, delight in the\line ascent and be sure you can control the guys along the way. And be \line prepared to get wet pressure will force first air, then water, out of\line the seals and rain will fall as the mast fills.\line\line You also might want to have a rotator and antenna on the top.\line\line Oh, I forgot to tell you how to get the darn thing down. Refill it with \line water. Stop the spigot, disconnect the hose and open the outlet \line ball-valve, letting the water gush out as quickly as possible. With \line some luck the mast will partially descend. Go up on the roof with a \line ratchet wrench for the hose clamps and VERY SLOWLY loosen the clamp \line around the 4" section. Watch the mast descend that much. Now the next\line clamp is within reach. Loosen it carefully as above until the next \line section slides down, then repeat for the last 2" section. HydroMast\line comes down faster than it went up. If the breeze is blowing, have some \line help with the guy lines.\line\line As you can tell, I have left out a lot of detail here. If you are \line interested in building your own HydroMast, please get in touch and I \line will happily share these details and my experience with it.\line\line Movies of my HydroMast are available at {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com"}}{\fldrslt{\cf1\ul www.youtube.com}}}\cf0\ulnone\f0\fs24  - go there and \line search videos for my call sign. Mildly amusing and somewhat instructive \line for any of you cheap and lazy hams.\line\line\line\line\line\line ********\line\line We can find a multitude of reasons to maintain our training\line and readiness. We have long haul capability, though not as\line widely used or recognized in these days of instant\line connectivity and communications that can still provide vital\line links after emergency or disasters. But, there are some\line considerations we're not factoring in when we talk about\line maintaining this training readiness and capability. So, I'm\line asking you to:\line\line\line\line\line don't laugh yet, THe big EMP!\line\line\line Unless you've lived in a cave somewhere I'm sure you've\line heard about emp, or electromagnetic pulse. We're talking\line about the havoc it can wreak with microprocessor based\line equipment.\line\line YEs VIrginia, this means the power grid, your internet\line connection, your switched telephone service even. Although\line underground switched telephone networks on copper might\line survive, oftentimes the switching circuitry, which is\line microprocessor based, is not buried.\line\line We've grown to be quite dependent on all these\line interconnected systems which have at their heart\line microprocessors that might not survive an electromagnetic\line pulse. A few years ago I read a science fiction story about\line a Japanese businessman who got revenge for HIroshima on the\line United STates by attacking our data networking\line infrastructure in myriad ways. One of his attacks was on the\line New York Stock exchange, generating an electromagnetic pulse\line in their machine room.\line\line Picture that in your mind a few minutes, just as a mental\line exercise. Data on recent trades, gone. Lots of data, poof!\line Not stored offsite, but stored on hard disks, magnetic tape\line and other media, now scrambled hopelessly beyond retrieval.\line\line THink about all the places where the data which keeps your\line life in order is stored. YOur doctor and other health care\line providers; schools, the agency or organization that handles\line your retirement benefits; your home and/or place of work.\line\line Before you think I've totally gone over to the tinfoil hat\line fashion statement, consider this. The dangers are more\line prevalent than you might think. Although there are methods\line that can be used to harden this critical infrastructure\line against these dangers, most of it won't be built in such a\line way as to survive them. We need to realize that there are a\line whole host of evolving IP service corruption and destruction\line possibilities that are part of what all of us\line telecommunications professional and volunteer folks know is\line going to be a part of the telecommunications revolution.\line Which has only, seriously, just begun. That includes wartime\line and conflict deliberate issues, as well as the threat of EMP\line pulse destruction of virtually all copper wired technology,\line as well as what is even less understood, the probablity of\line Solar Flare massive eruption. Do not laugh. The total loss\line of the entire power grid operations in the whole world is\line also possible from solar flare eruptions. Few folks know\line about the last major one we took here on earth in the mid\line 1800's at the time of the driving of the Golden Spike when\line the railroad was first finished connecting the East and West\line coast of the USA.\line\line At that time the communications for the whole affair was by copper\line wired telegraph instruments and telegraph code. As some may know,\line but others may not, the telegraphers of that day used\line American MOrse, instead of the INternational Morse we're\line accustomed to hearing, and using. But, I digress,\line excuse me a moment. THis flare destroyed ALL of the telegraph sounders in the\line whole USA! Additionally, in some places, the electrical\line charge that the railroad rails picked up from the\line electromagnetic pulse that hit us from the sun\line actually set the wooden cross ties on fire where it arced\line across them to the ground from the rails!\line\line Just one nuclear blast generates at least a 30,000,000 volt\line per METER wavefront moving out to the horizon at the speed\line of light, folks. The last test atomic airborne blast in the\line Pacific about 650 miles from Hawaii, took out about half of\line all the traffic signals in the whole island area in 'sight\line line' with no ground mountain blockage, from the US Navy\line test blast there at the Johnson Island complex. Tough luck\line if you have a pacemaker heart device. You die.\line\line That's just one possibility. HEre's another for you.\line Generating an emp which would impact a wide area is quite\line possible.\line\line This article was posted by the INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY\line under Editorials on April 20th 2010 and titled "Tehran's\line Other Target: America 2015." THe author states that anyone\line able to put a satellite into orbit can also launch an\line intercontinental ballistic missile. IT says:\line\line We forget that such a missile wouldn't have to be accurate.\line A single nuclear warhead detonated over the American\line heartland would emit an electromagnetic pulse that would fry\line our technological infrastructure and catapult America and\line its economy back to the 18th century.\line\line So, we have the U.S. department of defense talking about\line countries which are developing icbm capability. But, we as\line emergency communications volunteers still have some powerful\line tools to at least give our infrastructure 20th century\line capabilities while recovery is underway. IF something like\line this should ever come to pass, I'm betting that amateur\line radio operators will be some of the first electronic\line communicators and systems to spread the word afterword. But,\line to be that go-to resource, we need to maintain our training\line and readiness. TO this end, not just are our voice nets\line important for training, but the long haul capabilities we\line have using cw as well. 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