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:

What's the biggest impediment your CERT team faces for keeping the CERT team trained, or keep members active and engaged, or recruit enough members, or organize meetings, etc. And do you have any solutions for said impediment.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		Education of the upper leadership in the fire departments, etc. As turnover happens they have to re-explain why CERT is beneficial to the city, etc
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		Funding is a continuous issue as well
	W6KJX	Lucile King		Workshops and meetings are great, but time commitments are so busy it's hard to get enough people
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June
	KK6QIP	Jack
	KN6AZC	Doug
	KJ6IEX	Paul
	KJ6RAD	Paul		Keep the understanding that they're volunteers

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

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		seems like all volunteer organizations have 10% active members those 10% eventually burn out
	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		similar to all the others listed CERT flourishes where disasters are more routine areas prone to hurricanes and such, eg. In our area, searches for missing people are more common Fire departments are also expanding volunteer fire department staff to do logistics work, and that may otherwise be involved in county County has little oversight, and the red-cross has also gone in a different direction by recruiting retired health care workers etc.

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.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KN6BEX	Michael

Discussion

This is [NAME], [CALLSIGN] net control operator of the Sacramento Valley CERT Net.

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

Once everyone has answered the question:

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? 

General Announcements

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

• [Record general announcements in the closing section below]

• 8:00pm monday Yolo ARES net
• 8:30pm YARS net on 147.000
• Oct 20 at 10:20 was the great shake out - earthquake awareness. Did anyone participate?
  • Some people got underneath table to practice
  • Participated in some group checkins, some via winlink
  • Filled out USGS "did you feel it"

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