5 Minutes Before

Attention all stations. The Sacramento Valley Multi-city CERT net will begin on the K6MVR repeater at 20:00 hours pacific 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 pacific time on the K6MVR repeater on a frequency of 147.000 MHz, with a minus offset and a CTCSS tone of 136.5 hertz.

Is there any emergency or priority traffic that needs to be handled before we begin the net?

• [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 topics and simulations are designed to promote thought and discussion. As a reminder, CERT teams never self deploy and should always take actual actions and direction from their overseeing agency. After roll call, we will ask each station that checked in 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:

The pandemic has caused in-person groups like CERT troubles in keeping energy going. What has worked for your group and what hasn't? What's happened to your group's general attendance and training, etc? What could be improved.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		Davis had plans for another training class, right before the pandemic and it got cancelled. In general, Davis hasn't been that active lately as in-person meetings died away generally.
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt
	W6KJX	Lucile King
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding		also caused a strain on resources like fire departments too, which may have contributed to the downfall of many side-projects like CERT.

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

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	AE6LM	Lawrence Mondragon
	K5FWD	David Brock
	AA6CS	Christopher
	KK6DIM	Keith
	KR6RAO	Kishore		communication has become super important, especially virtual commenications focused on procedures and safety skills active volunteers have gone down positive: after we were able to meet in person it became very apparent about how important in-person trainings/etc was
	KK6PAS	Chuck		with fewer meetings, especially from an ARES perspective: less activitise to help and socialize and get cohersion need to be sensitive to what other people think (masking, eg)

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		found it acceptable to do online training for qualifications in the past it was required to be face-to-face this is both good and bad good: engagement bad: training not as good as in person
	K6ABJ	Aaron
	KM6JSM	Matt
	AD6DM	Dennis Majado
	K6CTC	Cynthia
	K9MEG	Martin Gunn
	KN6UXX	Rob

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		verbal communication had to be retrained visual communication lost a lot of understanding about how to interpret others people had to learn new technology (zoom etc) reduced opportunities technology once learned enabled retained of education too worst that has happened: have-nots really had a hard time

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.

Discussion

We will now move into the discussion portion of this net.  We will first run through the roster of CERT members that have checked in and ask each station to respond to today's topic.  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

We will do general announcements in a minute. But first we'll continue our discussion period about tonight's topic. Are there any CERT members or guests that wish to make additional comments related to tonight's discussion topic? 

• [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]

• Yolo ARES monday night 8pm
• YARS monday night 8:30pm
• YARS meeting Tuesday about first responders

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, including discussion comment summaries, will be available on log.hamtools.org after the net. If you wish to be on the announcement mailing list where weekly net reminders and net summary logs are sent, please contact net control after the net. Thank you for participating tonight 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”.

End time: 20:19