Today was the Ventura Marathon, from Ojai to Ventura just two days after a historic storm and just a few weeks after much of the course was damaged in another. The ham radio component was made up of 15 Aid station with two or more operators, net control in the County ACS trailer, three SAG Wagons, four chasers in bikes and four mobile doctors on bikes, all with APRS tracking. As an experiment, we ran a Zoom meeting in the control trailer, and when there was a course issue at one point, one of our operators was able to log in and show the scene live on a cell phone camera to the event coordinators.
The role of ham radio in events like this can extend beyond the limits of pure ham radio-it’s about being communicators, not hobbyists.
Amazing work by Burt Aurbach AE6BJA coordinating the event!
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