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Minutes
Town of Los Altos Hills
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
June 21, 2011 @ 7:00 PM, Chambers Conference Area at LAH Town Hall
Roll call:
Member Call Sign Attended Absent
Jim Abraham W6EB P
Dru Anderson KG6LAD P
Bob Anderson KC6ZWG P
Ray Egan, Chair W6FQY P
Andy Fawcett KI6MAF E
Bill Gibbons KJ6IRA P
Jim Heintzelman KD6Y P
Edwin R Jones, EC W7WPO P
Andrew Kirk WB6CLS E
Duncan MacMillan KI6VMY P
Scott Overstreet N6NXI P
Bob Rowe AF6LD P
Miles Seiver, Secretary KI6LDU E
Maynard Stevenson W7MVT P
Jerry Tomanek AF6HY E
Sam Wood K6MSR P
Council Liaison
Gary Waldeck K6AIR E
Chairman Ray Egan called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm and welcomed guest,
Sally Wood. The members introduced themselves. Duncan MacMillan
volunteered to fill in as secretary in Miles’ absence during the summer.
Scott Overstreet indicated that the tech talk would be deferred since Andy Kirk
was not able to attend.
Bob Anderson moved to approve the draft May 2011 ECC minutes as amended.
The motion passed unanimously.
Sally Wood indicated that she was exploring the ECC as a possible volunteer
activity.
Scott said that donations to the SPECS flea market were aided by equipment
from the estate of K6VT, including equipment from Pan Am flying boat
service to the present day. He provided a show-tell on the nameplate
from a MacKay Radio & Telegraph Co (marine) generator.
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EC Edwin Jones had no news from the county but indicated that he would take
SPECS network control duties for the month of July.
No report from council liaison Gary Waldeck since he is in Italy at the moment.
Sam Wood said he is still finalizing the list of frequencies for the LAH ECC
handhelds. He asked for input regarding certain monitor channels. PG&E
will be added. Rich Ellinger was reported to have a list of about 100
frequencies. Dave Stewart indicated that RadioRreference.com has a
number of frequencies of interest and will provide more info to Sam and
Scott on that source. Sam indicated that his list will group frequencies by
type with spaces between groups. Sam was asked to provide a list of
what he has so far in an xls spreadsheet.
The nominating committee, Dru Anderson and Jim Abraham, will provide a list of
candidates at the July meeting. Jim will act as chair the July meeting in
Ray’s absence.
Chair Ray Egan solicited net control volunteers. It was the consensus of the
group that net control duty for the Monday night (local) net shall be
assigned on a rotating basis.
Dru reported that there will be a CERT search and rescue session tomorrow
night, Wednesday, June 22 in chambers from 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Ray indicated that 8 volunteers were requested by Steve Garcia for the July 4
parade. Please contact Steve directly.
Ray reported that a review of the AT&T interference report for their three (3) new
LTE antennas on the heritage house tree were lacking any documentation
concerning ECC antennas, nor any reference at all to ECC requirements
and frequencies. Scott moved that the ECC support the request to
document ECC antenna placements and frequencies on AT&T drawings
and that the be included in the AT&T RF study over concern for intermod
products being produced in the 144 – 148, 222 – 225 and 440 - 450 MHz
bands, before the planning commission approves any work. The motion
was duly seconded and passed unanimously.
At 8:20 pm Bob Anderson moved to adjourn the meeting, which was duly
seconded and passed unanimously.
Respectfully submitted,
Duncan MacMillan
(for Miles Seiver, LAH ECC Secretary