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Emergency Communications Committee Minutes
Tuesday, October 04, 2016, 7 – 9 p.m.
LAH Council Chambers: 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Members Call Sign Attendance
Jim Abraham W6EB E
Dru Anderson, Co-Chair KG6LAD E
Bob Anderson KC6ZWG E
Jim Heintzelman KD6Y P
Ben H. L. Hu KK6HH P
Edwin R Jones, EC W7WPO E
Andrew Kirk WB6CLS P
Duncan MacMillan, Secretary KI6VMY P
Scott Overstreet, Co-Chair N6NXI P
Sam Wood K6MSR E
Council/Staff ------
Gary Waldeck, Council Liaison K6AIR P
Associate Members ------
Neil Katin K2LL P
Bill Lattin KK6PCA P
Greg Olsen K6XM P
Public ------
Kjell Karlsson KD6BPP P
1.Roll Call: Noting the absence of a quorum of 6+ members, co-chair Scott Overstreet
N6NXI called the meeting to order @ 1902 hours. Attendance (10): 5 members, 1 liaison, 3
associates, 1 public.
2.Minutes: In the absence of a quorum, approval of the minutes of the September 06, 2016
meeting was deferred to the November meeting.
3.Public comments from the floor: Nothing heard
4.Reports
a.SCC EC: Ed Jones W7WPO being absent due to illness, there was no report and the
October NCO drill was postponed to a later date, TBD.
b.LAH City Council Report: Gary Waldeck K6AIR indicated that there was nothing
affecting the ECC to report.
c.Roster Report: Scott acknowledged Bert Raphael's decision to concentrate on CERT
activities, resigning as an associate member, and Scott offered thanks for his past
participation on the ECC. ¨ Neil Katin K2LL will update the roster accordingly.
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d.Member/Associate report: Deferred to the November meeting.
e.LAH Disaster Services Committee report: Deferred to the November meeting.
5.Old Business:
a.HF radio antenna testing: Greg Olsen K6XM said that he was not yet able to retest
with a true antenna (he used a section of wire in the first, quick test to see if there is
any low noise bandwidth available) but indicated he would make a concerted effort
to do so. ¨ Greg will perform the retest and report status at the November meeting,
including Westwind Barn and the La Cresta water tank.
b.ECC QRG (Quick Reference Guide): Neil Katin referred members to the printed
version of the draft but indicated that it would probably be best to check the Google
docs version, which indicates where and by whom changes have been suggested.
Further comments can be appended directly to the Google document.
¨ Neil will provide Duncan with the URL to the Google doc for distribution to all
hands. ¨ All hands will review and provide comments to the Google doc by
Tuesday, October 25 so Neil has time to incorporate any change requests by the
November meeting. ¨ Neil will provide a detailed review of the QRG at the
November meeting.
c.Foothill EOC radio test: Duncan described the successful test of the FH EOC radio
kit conducted on Friday, September 09 at 0900 hours (see attached test report). He
thanked the other volunteers for their participation using LAH EOC, ARK and the
FH EOC radios: Ed, Andy Fawcett KI6MAF, and Ben Hu KK6HH. The group was
not able to use the K6AIR repeater due to its capture by casual users and asked if
Gary, as owner/trustee of the repeater, could provide a document stating his priorities
of use so we could break-in next time with some authority. ¨ Gary will provide a
priority list for acceptable use of the K6AIR repeater.
At the next high radio traffic CERT drill we will need to test if using voice on 440
Simplex at high power from the ARK will interfere with CERT operations. Neil
indicated that the October 08 drill will not be a good venue for such a test due to
only marginal amounts of radio traffic expected and that the next high-traffic
opportunity would not occur until the next calendar year.
Duncan also reported that he has made additional attempts to contact members of the
FHPD responsible for their participation in the "Great Shake Out" to be held at 1020
hours on October 20. He reported no success and doubted that any request for ham
services will be forthcoming. He will call the usual suspects, if FH makes contact.
6.New Business:
a.ECC support subcommittees, 2016/2017: The following volunteers were asked to
provide progress reports at the November meeting, including plans and schedules:
i.LAH equipment (inventory): ¨ Duncan;
ii.LAH equipment readiness (use, maintenance, interface with LAH EG):
¨ Andy F, Andy K, Scott;
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iii.EOC readiness (clean, neat, documented, and ready): ¨ Jim Heintzelman
KD6Y, with support by Duncan;
iv.Packet (provisioned, documented, tested, and ready): ¨ Ben, with support
by Andy F;
v.DSC interface (ECC/CERT interface and cooperation): ¨ Ed, with support
by Dru;
vi.LAH ham data base (maintain comprehensive list of active LAH licensees,
communication and recruitment suggestions ): ¨ Ray;
vii.QRG (periodic review and distribution): ¨ Neil;
viii.Training & activity monitoring (suggest courses and maintain list of courses
taken by each member and associate): ¨ Ed, in his duties as EC;
ix.Antenna systems: ¨ Scott, with support by Jim H, Ray (?) and Greg (?):
x.HF systems: ¨ Craig Miller, with Jim A, Bob (as PHWD liaison if their
water tower or other facility makes sense as antenna location), and Greg (?)
7.Tech Talk: Duncan presented a capsule version of Net Control Operator(NCO) and scribe
duties showing 15 overheads (see attached pdf) selected from the 160+ overheads used in
the SCC-ARES-RACES classes (6 hours of classroom instruction). He emphasized that the
presentation was only an exposure to what he thought were some of the highpoints and
suggested that the ECC strive to get at least 8 of its willing members/associates certified as
Type III NCOs in 2017. Classes are only given once per year and there are prerequisites.
The overheads shown indicate where they were taken from, showing their slide number
within either the A or B class in parenthesis. Members can go to that location, around which
overhead more related information can be found. The starting point for such searches is:
http://www.scc-ares-races.org/training.html#courses.
After the presentation, about 1/2 hour was spent in exercises to develop opening scripts for a
resource net and taking damage reports. Damages descriptions were passed out, without
Mike-Mike numbers indicated to make the point that we need to have such information at
our fingertips, even if only acting as a Field Communicator (not an NCO).
¨ All hands are to review Duncan's presentation overheads, review the classroom overheads
for the NCO Type III A and B classes via the SCC-ARES-RACES website, and prepare to
participate in more NCO exercises at the November meeting.
8.Adjourn: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:59 pm.
Respectfully Submitted: Duncan MacMillan KI6VMY, secretary
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