5 Minutes Before

Attention all stations. The Sacramento Valley Multi-city CERT net will begin on the K6MVR repeater at 20:00 hours local time. Thank you in advance for the use of this frequency. This is NAME, CALLSIGN, net control for this evening and standing by for the net.

Introduction

Good evening, this is the Sacramento Valley Multi-City Community Emergency Response Team net. I am NAME, CALL, net control for this evening. This net is for Sacramento Valley CERT teams and residents to discuss aspects of community supported emergency operations in the greater Sacramento area. It meets every Sunday night at 20:00 hours on the K6MVR repeater on a frequency of 147.000 MHz, and a minus offset with a CTCSS tone of 136.5 hertz.

Is there any emergency or priority traffic that needs to be handled first?

• [pause and listen for 10 seconds for any emergency traffic that needs to be handled]

Every week we will have a discussion topic or question for net participants to respond to, about CERT related activities and skills, emergency preparedness, fictitious situations to consider or about current events within the Sacramento Valley. These discussion topics and simulations are designed to promote thought and discussion. As a reminder, CERT teams never self deploy and always take actual actions and direction from their overseeing agency. After roll call, we will ask each station to respond to the question and hold a discussion based on it. After roll call and discussions, we will open the net to any stations with other announcements or traffic.

Today’s question is:

This question was courtesy of Christopher, so thank you for submitting it.

How might you communicate with people that don't speak your language? I can imagine that language barriers will be frustrating on both sides of the conversation in an emergency, when communication is essential and frequently time sensitive. What techniques can you come up with to overcome this barrier.

We now ask Davis City CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		google translate works possibly sign language / spelling
	W6KJX	Lucile King		pictograms was a great idea clipboard with paper / act out sign language might be known facial expressions pointing at body parts
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding		google translate dictionary download

We now ask Elk Grove / Galt City CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KC6SGT	George Carrington		fire / police have phone numbers call phones for immediate translations this affects to you when you travel too
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June		facial / body language the best you can
	KK6QIP	Jack
	KN6AZC	Doug		mostly good list covered so far google translate but it has errors! So be careful!
	KJ6IEX	Paul

We now ask Folsom CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	AE6LM	Lawrence Mondragon
	K5FWD	David Brock		Carry laminated fold out brochure with pictures pain points location medical visual language translator -- quick point [Editor:] If you search for "Kwikpoint English/Spanish Medical Visual Language Translator" on amazon you'll find the book in question.
	AA6CS	Christopher		carrying a note pad draw pictures hand motions printed cards help
	KK6DIM	Keith

We now ask Sacramento Metro Fire CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		look around to see if anyone else can translate for me red cross says you should be sensitive with young children, who might be sensitive to topics be sensitive about cultural differences as well potentially find someone of the same culture
	K6ABJ	Aaron
	KM6RIX	Mike		Don't ignore them ; find a way to help shelter managers hopefully have a list of people to help
	KM6JSM	Matt

We now ask West Sacramento CERT members to check into the net.

We now ask Woodland CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WA6TQJ	Gary		use objects as a prompt yes and no are somewhat universal -- nodding / head-shaking numbers can be used by fingers including a string of numbers

We will now accept visitor checkins to the Sacramento Valley Multi-City CERT net.  You do not need to be affiliated with a CERT team to check into our net. All visitors are welcome.  If you're a visiting station that would like to check in, please come now with your callsign, name and location.

• Gary listed upcoming activities and nets
  • Yolo ARES on N6QDY at 8
  • YARS / mt. vaca on K6MVR
  • Tuesday the 5th will be the YARS meeting
• Gary: question for next time:

Discussion

We will now move into the discussion portion of this net.  We’ll run through the roster of CERT members and visitors that checked in first and ask them to respond to the question.  Afterward we’ll open the discussion to all stations for additional comments.

• [Run through the roster of check-ins and record answers above]

Additional Discussion

Are there any CERT members or guests that wish to make any additional comments related to tonight's discussion topic?  We will do general announcements after the discussion period.

• [Add any additional comments to the notes above]

General Announcements

Are there any net participants with announcements, CERT activities, event reports or who have other traffic for the net?

• [Record general announcements below]

Closing

Hearing no more traffic or checkins, I will now close today’s Sacramento Valley Multi-city CERT net, at TIME.

The log notes for this net will be available on the log.hamtools.org website shortly. Thank you for participating and talk to you next week!

I would to thank the control operator and users of the K6MVR repeater for the use of this frequency. This is NAME, CALL “listening” or “signing-off”.

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