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:

Let's think positively about Covid-19 and appreciate that with everything bad often comes a few opposites (even if small in comparison). Are there any positive aspects to your life's changes that have resulted from this pandemic?

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker		less travel is both good and bad enjoy seeing my immediate family more
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		attend multiple ares meetings I couldn't normally attend saving a fair amount of money in gas
	W6KJX	Lucile King		more time for reading and yardwork call siblings more often culdisac TGIF
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding		hop out to the garden during breaks more time with animals workplace culture shifting

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KC6SGT	George Carrington
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June
	KK6QIP	Jack
	KN6AZC	Doug		certain organizations are changing positive and negative both
	KJ6IEX	Paul

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	AE6LM	Lawrence Mondragon
	K5FWD	David Brock		work from home more than frequently turned work space into something more comfortable
	AA6CS	Christopher		married in march learning how to co-exist more than might have as newlyweds real world opportunity to test emergency preparedness
	KK6DIM	Keith
	AI6CS	Charlie
	KR6RAO	Kishore		Focus on what is important Walks everyday CERT did deployment to testing site, and learned a lot

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

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		appreciating first responders
	K6ABJ	Aaron
	KM6RIX	Mike		using less gas walking with the dog
	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		much more light traffic on the freeways zoom meetings are definitely an improvement allows better attendance to meetings new industries around masks and desks

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]

• Yolo ARES Monday at 20:00, YARS Monday at 20:30
• YARS meeting Tuesday at 7:30 with a zoom presentation on receiving CW skills and techniques
• House in Sac with a tower, crack-up, for sale (the house). Contact Gary for information.

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: 20:26