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Tech Talk Title:
Baker to Vegas Team Communications
Requested: 45 minutes
in room 2-4, 3 p.m. Friday.
This talk will be a follow up to the Baker to Vegas presentation
given at the Riverside Convention in 2005. We will once again
turn our attention to the Baker to Vegas Relay race but this
year we will take an in-depth look at the communications for
individual running teams who participate in the race and the ham
radio operators who support them. On average around 350-400 Hams
come out to the course to accomplish this and this will be an
opportunity to introduce them and showcase their
accomplishments.
Presented by: Joy Matlack, KD6FJV
Bio:
Joy Matlack,
KD6FJV, has made community service an immediate
and continuing focus of her career as a Ham Radio Operator. Joy
has taught Ham Radio classes to various community groups over
the years. As a long time volunteer and emergency response
instructor she has worked a variety of events both as a
consultant to local, state, & federal agencies in disasters and
during training exercises and as an amateur radio operator.
Having been licensed for well over ten years, Joy holds a
general class license and has been a Volunteer Examiner. Over
the years Joy has also been a Red Cross Disaster Services and
First Aid Instructor, a CERT Instructor and Training Officer,
and became a certified Train the Trainer in Domestic Terrorism
Awareness and Response. She has given and/or designed disaster
response programs and the supporting ongoing training for the
Naval and Marine Corps Reserve, the Army Reserve, and several
other local, state, and federal entities.
Joy has
worked the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay for 18 years. One
of her first assignments was to help in the providing of support
for the Long Beach Police Dept. and the Lakewood Office of the
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept teams. A couple of years later,
she received a call from the California Department of Justice
asking for her help in setting up a communications system for
their teams during the race and using that as a training ground
for their agents in the Communications Division. As she spent
these years working with specific teams on their internal
communications, she built a rapport with the race organizers,
members of the Race Committee and its sponsoring organization,
the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club. This rapport
led to being asked to become the Communications Director for
Baker to Vegas. This position provides a unique opportunity to
explore and learn about multiple aspects of Ham Radio under some
of the most varying conditions, vast terrain, and extreme
weather, primarily with portable equipment and power. |
