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 should 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:

Imagine you're out of town on vacation or visiting friends (in the obvious distant future). You've taken only what you'd normally take on such a trip when suddenly a major catastrophe happens in your area. What would you be willing to do to help the local situation, if anything, given that you're out of your area and have no overseeing agency to give you directions and have just your skills. Do you hole up? Do you offer assistance to some organization? If you feel your answer must be situationally dependent, pick an example situation and state it before your answer. You have no rule book to follow for this one other than the good Samaritan law.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		local skills cooperation between cities call for vol
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		contact list with potential nearby organizations during flooding and earthquakes they often want sandbag fillers, etc cert members know not to fill it to the top generally orgs don't want spontaneous volunteers
	W6KJX	Lucile King
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding		reach out to local organizations government linked organizations assistants internet access, check social media -- often neighborhood requests

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KC6SGT	George Carrington		always have communication and medical equipment work in the immediate area
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June
	KK6QIP	Jack
	KN6AZC	Doug		was in hawaii during the volcano eruption reached out to local CERT they had it handled
	KJ6IEX	Paul

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
	AI6CS	Charlie		help family, friends and neighbors good Samaritan activities

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		make sure self and family are safe, focusing on that first contact who at the community might be involved with disaster response cert member out of the area resource if needed
	K6ABJ	Aaron		immediate family and neighbors first avail to neighbors first (as I would at home if removed from the CERT team) reluctant to engage with any formal teams
	KM6RIX	Mike
	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		family and self first follow normal triage practice identify those that can be saved

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
	KI6IJI	Gary

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]

• Gary listed upcoming nets: ARES, YARS, Tuesday YARS meeting about solar flares affecting radio transmissions
• Brad: k6mvr echolink doesn't work? - answer: link was shutdown because of inappropriate usage

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 the log.hamtools.org website shortly. If you wish to be on the announcement mailing list where weekly net reminders and net logs are sent, please contact net control after the net. 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”.

End time: 20:25