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Minutes
Town of Los Altos Hills
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, March 2, 2005 @ 7:30 PM Town Hall @ Bullis School
1. Roll call:
Member Call Sign Attended Absent
Bob Anderson, Vice Chairman KC6ZWG P
Bob Hall KF6DHX P
David Gilmour WQ1K E
David Pratt K6LWT E
Dru Anderson, Chairman KG6LAD P
Jim Abraham W6EB P
Maynard Stevenson W7MVT P
Rick Ellinger, Secretary KJ6NU P
Sam Wood K6MSR P
Scott Overstreet N6NXI P
"Smitty" Smithwick W6CS P
Al Whaley N6RPR P
Ray Egan W6FQY P
Edwin R Jones, Assistant Secretary W7WPO P
Associate Members Call Sign
Peter Berman K6PJB
Bob Lisbonne KG6HOD
Ed Radlo AJ6V
Bob Fenwick K6GX
Committee Council liaison arrived at 8:50 during Dru’s antenna tower discussion.
2. Review of February minutes: Approved
3. Report from Chairman Dru Anderson:
a. Discussions are underway with Larry Carr, DEC, to consider moving the OQS operations in
drills and emergencies to the DX Club repeater (W6TI).
b. Dru presented the findings concerning the need for a communication tower at the new
town hall. The existing tower must be relocated because of the construction in the area of a
solar garden. Shadowing from the existing tower would interfere with the solar cells.
i. The LAHECC committee discussed the height, location, and reasons for stacked
antennas. The software program predicts that a tower nearly 200 meters high
would be required to reach OQS, the present county tactical repeater.
ii. Analysis of 60’ tower, the minimum to support the antennas and support their
separation while maintaining simultaneous operation, is the result of the technical
review. These include communications to the county, neighboring communities,
and within the town of Los Altos Hills to all the neighborhoods.
iii. The antenna tower must be in place as pre-provisioned, in-place equipment for
immediate operation in emergencies. Usage is frequent for drills, training and area
emergency communications. The objective is no moving parts that would be
subject to breakage during earthquake or handling.
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4. Reports from Officers and Subcommittee leads:
a. Jim reported on the La Cresta tank. The pad for the tower, defined by the lease, is 100 sq
feet. The repeater antenna needs to be moved from the water tank to its own location. Jim
recommended a 40-foot tower, potentially expandable. The 8’x12’ pad will be located just
outside the fenced and secured area of the water tank site and will be secured separately
from the water district facilities. The plan is to build a 40’ lattice tower, triangular cross
section, to which, if possible, additional sections can be added.
5. Report from Dean Warshawsky, town council liaison.
a. Complete the study and get the proposed La Cresta installation on the Planning Committee
calendar.
b. The planning for the tower at town hall proposal should proceed with neighbors and then to
PC. Findings should come from the neighborhood meeting to PC, then to council. Include
the proposed location, size, and neighborhood feedback. The tower must accommodate 4
antennas and be spaced vertically apart to avoid interference.
6. Report from Rick Ellinger, EC
a. Rick distributed maps that were requested at the Feb meeting. These depict all the town
roads and addresses. This is the base map from the town’s GIS computer. The maps are
for emergency responder use, to be retained with grab-‘n-go kits.
b. We can provide the radio training manual to the council. Dean suggested a note to him to
put this on the council agenda.
7. New Business: moved, seconded, passed to document the results of the propagation simulation of
LAH to OQS and add to this the propagation with the DX Club repeater.
8. Presentations from the floor:
a. Sam demonstrated that the software for packet is loaded. We need a permanent cable, 9
pin to 25 pin. Rick will provide this.
b. CERT training has been completed by several on the LAH ECC. The most recent graduate
is Ed Jones. Also trained are Dru and Bob Anderson, Jim Abraham and at least five others
in the town. The CERT training is conducted about once per quarter by John Korgis of the
Los Altos police department.
9. Adjournment. It was moved and seconded to adjourn at 9:45PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Rick Ellinger
LAHECC Secretary
Emergency Coordinator, Los Altos Hills