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:

Today let's the topic on everyone's mind. Specifically, what impact has the recent outbreak of COVID-19 had on your personally, or people you know. Most specifically, do you actually know anyone that has it (please don't give names, just a yes/no/or count)? Provide any other information you feel is helpful about how you're handling the situation.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		older relatives being taken care of. don't know of anyone. hibernating
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		don't know anyone; big problem for a lot of parents with multiple weeks, putting kids at home. Concern if grandparents are helping out with kids. Web sites like scholastic, kahn, youtube, etc have classes to watch. Have equipment ready. Travis AFB has sent a memo that isn't letting anyone travel by commercial air.
	W6KJX	Lucile King		don't know anyone; densist office is closed. doctors and medical personnel
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding		don't know anyone. Affecting her at work. Training and similar is difficult. Trying not to do instruction in person at the university. Relative works in a hospital, so some concern there. If you're in yolo county, there is a covid-19 yolo community response group on facebook providing advice, etc. Coordinating services like child care, etc.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KC6SGT	George Carrington		Concern about over-hype. Listen to people. Use good hygine. My research has shown 3 potential drugs which may help, which is positive.
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June		Quarantine is hard to balance between how much is too much or too little.
	KK6QIP	Jack
	KM6GMR	Dean Thomas		moved out of the area; drop from roster
	KN6AZC	Doug

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	AE6LM	Lawrence Mondragon
	K5FWD	David Brock		not here later
	AA6CS	Christopher		Don't know anyone personally. Has ruined wedding plans, receptions cancelled, etc. Honeymoon is also cancelled. Have friends in Italy who's grandparents have passed away. Wash your hands. Keep away from people.
	KK6BIM	Steve

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		don't know anyone. know two people indirectly that have undergone lock down in assisted living. If emergency staff is called brings into question whether or not older volunteers should go.
	K6ABJ	Aaron
	KM6RIX	Mike		Sister in a lock-down assisted living facility. They need supplies. Testing everyone every couple of hours. I'm self-quarantining too. Not changing a huge amount yet.
	KM6JSM	Matt		don't know anyone. Son had strep, but wasn't covid. Another person may lose a job due to service industry slowing.

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		traffic on the freeway is bad. The cows don't care [gary has cows on a ranch]. Bike race today was cancelled. other countries have had many similar problems.

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
	KN6HKN	Chris		concord - make good decisions; don't travel and don't go into the office when sick.

• Gary listed upcoming nets (Yolo ARES, YARS nets on monday)
• Wes mentioned that tonight's notes are logged at log.hamtools.org

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. 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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