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Minutes
Town of Los Altos Hills
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, January 4, 2005 @ 7:30 PM
Town Hall @ Bullis School
1. Roll call:
Member Call Sign Attended Absent
Bob Anderson, Vice Chairman KC6ZWG x
Bob Fenwick, Outgoing LIaison K6GX a. excused
Bob Hall KF6DHX x
David Gilmour WQ1K a. excused
David Pratt K6LWT a.
Dru Anderson, Chairman KG6LAD x
Jim Abraham W6EB x
Maynard Stevenson W7MVT x
Rick Ellinger, Secretary KJ6NU x
Sam Wood K6MSR x
Scott Overstreet N6NXI x
"Smitty" Smithwick W6CS a.
Al Whaley N6RPR a. excused
Ray Egan W6FQY a. excused
Edwin R Jones, Assistant Secretary W7WPO x
Associate Members Call Sign (requirements as defined)
Peter Berman K6PJB na.
Bob Lisbonne KG6HOD na.
Ed Radlo AJ6V na.
2. Review of December minutes: Reviewed later in the meeting. Jim noted a minor edit. The
minutes were moved for approval, with the revision, and submittal to the Town Clerk for
posting.
3. Report from Chairman Dru Anderson:
a. Chairman’s discussion – Dru: Had a discussion of whether to continue to provide
radios if someone, as a member or an associate doesn’t check in (meaning attend
a meeting or participate in on-the-air SPECS drills.)
b. Everyone participated in the discussion and the conclusion was: “Continuing to
hold a town radio requires at least once per month participation. This may be
flexible out to three months, subject to available radios. Regular meeting rules
require no more than 3 unexcused absences or they will be dropped from the
committee.”
c. When radios were issued, there was a request that the box be maintained so it
could be returned.
d. Moved, seconded, unanimous approval.
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e. A plaque was presented to Jim Abraham recognizing his chairmanship for the past
18 months. A plaque thanking Bob Fenwick for his work as Council liaison was
also prepared and will be presented at a future meeting.
f. Dru presented the list of officers and assignments:
i. Bob Anderson, vice chairman, will continue as the committee liaison to the
city Emergency Preparedness Council and has the lead for set up and
provision for mobile and remote operations.
ii. Rick Ellinger, secretary, continues responsibility as the LAH ARES EC,
which includes drill preparation and execution and liaison with the County
EC.
iii. Ed Jones, assistant secretary, is the lead for net control operation and
training at EOC.
iv. Ray Egan is the lead for the EOC antenna capabilities and planning.
v. Sam Wood is the lead for packet technology and operations.
vi. Jim Abraham will focus on the repeater.
vii. Scott Overstreet is the coordinator to the SPECS repeater technology
planning and operations.
4. Reports from Officers and Subcommittee leads:
a. Deferred to allow planning to be done by each Officer/Lead for the February
meeting discussion.
5. Report from Dean Warshawsky, town council liaison.
a. Dean joined the meeting and was introduced as the Town Council’s new liaison to
the committee. Dean expressed interest and appreciation of the committee’s work
and commitment to the emergency communications preparation.
b. Committee members introduced themselves, as well as gave brief summaries of
their backgrounds.
6. Report from Rick Ellinger, EC
a. Layout of EOC remains as it was put in place at the December work station and
prior drill. Radios are in their designated places now, with power supplies, but
need to be bolted down. The biggest preparedness issue for the EOC is to get the
antennas in place.
b. Continuation of the work effort was agreed to and designated as immediately prior
to the County Drill on Jan. 22. All members were asked to participate in the local
drill from 1200-1400, followed by the County Drill from 1400-1600.
c. The Scenario for the Jan. 22 County Drill, which will focus on packet preparation,
is described below.
d. There was general agreement to use the local work effort on Jan. 22 to identify
technical needs, identify the radio hookups, and determine specific antenna needs.
Dru said she will gather observations and prepare a summary of equipment and
other technical issues and proposed solutions.
7. New Business:
a. Dru requested a quick “surprise” test of the repeater with Bob Anderson and Rick
on the radios. She checked on the status of grab-n-go kits. Dru asked Rick to re-
publish the grab-n-go kit list.
b. Dru further requested that all members bring their grab-n-go kits to the next
meeting.
c. Scott Overstreet discussed a need for more training. He made a motion to: Provide
an additional training and familiarization session beginning at 12 noon on the 22nd,
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ahead of the County drill. We need to have signage provided by then. Ham
operators should bring their headsets for radio operation.
d. Packet operations are encouraged for Jan. 22 drill, but will be decided at that time
by the EC, depending on available talent, since packet cannot operate from the
Town EOC. The motion for the additional work was seconded and unanimously
passed.
e. Scott brought up an idea of a clerical task function in the manner of a message
transcribing computer for assisting the chief radio operator.
8. The intent is as part of the Jan. 22 “training” portion to identify ways to accomplish
smoother message capture and transcription.
9. Presentations from the floor: No further presentations were made.
10. Adjournment. It was moved and second and agreed to adjourn at 9:22PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Rick Ellinger
LAHECC Secretary
Emergency Coordinator, Los Altos Hills
County-Wide ARES/RACES Exercise: January 22, 2005, 1400-1600 Local
Scenario: A severe wind and rain storm has swept across Santa Clara County. High winds have toppled many power
and telephone poles. Many areas are without power and/or telephone service. Water is rising in most streams and
rivers that drain the county watershed. Already-full reservoirs are likely to spill. Persons are being evacuated from
low-lying areas where streams are already over their banks. Red Cross is opening shelters. Communities are in need of
better information about where localized flooding is occurring. Sandbag dumps are being opened and staffed with
volunteers.
Intergovernmental Communications: The OpArea is in need of information about areas affected and needs for
assistance. Initial communications and message passing will be via voice radio using amateur radio operators. More
complete information and written confirmation will be via PacRIMS.
Local Communications: Individual city EOCs need information from the field about stream conditions and areas
affected; Red Cross needs to communicate with shelters; Public Works Departments need to communicate with
sandbag dumps; city officials will want to go to problem areas.
Frequencies to be Used:
• County Resource Net
146.115+ PL 100 AA6BT/R Linked; primary
145.270- PL 100 W6ASH/R Linked
444.625+ PL 110.9 WB6FYI/R Linked
• County Message Net
146.760- PL 151.4 WA6OQS/R
224.260- PL 151.4 WA6OQS/R Linked
• County Command Net
442.500+ PL 100.0 WB6ZVW/R
• PacRIMS (W6XSC-1 BBS)
144.910
223.660
433.530