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:

How does your city make use of both city provided radios simultaneously with ham radios when deployed on CERT callouts. Include any discussion about what you think works and what doesn't with respect to dual-radio communication if two types are in use.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		- bike race and volume and ear piece
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		active callouts with radios in use with county and ham outside cert, ham radios provided assistance to the operators. County radios were used for medical and urgent needs. Walking with two radios is difficult. two radios with net control is challenging; coordination and breaking large nets in pieces is helpful
	W6KJX	Lucile King		not much experience test examples in training mostly freezing up is a real problem with new people on the radios
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KC6SGT	George Carrington		training with radio communications is lacking and needs refreshing
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June
	KK6QIP	Jack
	KN6AZC	Doug
	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		Not many occasions to use both VHF during events HAM for closer stuff Getting 800MHz radios
	KK6DIM	Keith
	AI6CS	Charlie

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		CERT team has two types of radios: 800MHz and older VHF HTs ham radio falls to a backup, along with cell phones cert members in command post at the same time two radios going off at once adds chaos extra communication is nice to have both for tracking of incidents inexpensive baufang hts are cheap and go everywhere do have them loaded with CERT frequencies
	K6ABJ	Aaron
	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		net controls have issues on the 800MHzs abbreviation and photonitcs are unusual when dispatch runs net controls they're very good

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
	WW6DEF	Darryl		Orangevale
	KB6SSN	Tom		Auburn
	KG6HBB	Matt		Vacaville

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

Are there any CERT members or guests that wish to make 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 reviewed upcoming nets: yolo ares, yars, yars meeting tuesday night on the k6mvr repeater surviving the fire
• Greg talked about winlink presentation on thursday on zoom about advanced features of winlink. A link will be posted to www.sacvalleyares.org .
• Greg mentioned radio link international will be doing a big exercise across the whole united states as well
• Brad mentioned placer county ares won't meet this sunday
• Christopher: Folsom cert spent 6 days at the fire last week and helped set up fire camp. Was fantastic to watch ICS work with multiple agencies operate well together

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 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: 20:32