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:

Consider the situation where you've been assigned to a large responsibility and there simply isn't enough help, either professionally or via volunteer recruitment on scene. In such an overwhelming situation, what techniques can you use to mentally protect yourself against exhaustion, guilt, overwhelmingness, regret, anger and the slew of other negative emotions you will likely feel.

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		short breaks are needed
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		don't panic prioritize what can be done recruit who you can
	W6KJX	Lucile King		early check in -- will miss the net
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding		remember that people are upset at situation not you psychological first aid is a good thing to search online principal: victims volunteering help reduce their own trauma

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		it's not your emergency you're there to help and render aide it often does not impact you if you have done the best that you can, then you have done your job diligently we are volunteers - we want to serve, but it's easy to get tunnel vision and going beyond our capacity and capability recognize for yourself and others
	KK6DIM	Keith
	AI6CS	Charlie

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		limit the scope to what you can do, and be successful within that scope other people can have the same emotions send someone to pass message that you need additional resources, possibly from a remote area
	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		confine activities to your assignment don't solve the global problem yourself don't get placed in an unsafe location or assignment

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

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]

• upcoming nets: yolo ARES at 8pm monday, YARS at 8:30pm

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: 20:24