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Emergency Communications Committee Minutes
Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
LAH Council Chambers: 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Members Call Sign Attendance
Dru Anderson, Co-Chair KG6LAD E
Eduardo Arias, Co-Chair KM6LSX P
Bob Anderson KC6ZWG E
Ben H. L. Hu, Secretary KK6HH P
Edwin R Jones W7WPO E
Terry Kearney KM6LTQ P
Andrew Kirk WB6CLS P
Scott Overstreet N6NXI P
Jay Sutaria KN6JAY P
Sam Wood K6MSR P
Council/Staff
Kavita Tankha,Council Liaison P
Associate Members
Larry Carr KE6AGJ P
Kjell Karlsson KD6BPP P
Neil Katin, EC K2LL P
Bill Lattin KK6PCA P
Guests:
Capt. Denise Gluhan KM6IFY P
Mauri Okamoto-Kearney KM6LXC P
1.ECC call to Meeting: Co-Chairs Eduardo Arias KM6LSX called the meeting to order.
(a)Roll Call: At 19:02 hours, Ben KK6HH took the roll call. Attendance was: 14 including 7
members, 1 Council Liaison, 4 associates, and 2 guests.
(b)Minutes approved: Scott N6NXI motioned to approve the minutes after he pointed out a
few typos that needed to be corrected. Terry KM6LTQ seconded the motion and the
minutes were approved with unanimous voice vote.
(c)Co-Chair Eduardo KM6LSX, on behalf of the ECC, expressed thanks to the Town for a
wonderful volunteer Appreciation Dinner. Eight of the 10 ECC members were in
attendance and they all enjoyed the food and wine at the venue.
2.Council Liaison Kavita Tankha: Nothing to report at this meeting.
3.Public comments from the floor:
(a)Terry KM6LTQ, a member of LAHCFD fire commission, attended the recent SCCFD
workshop, and noted that the general opinion is that LAFCFD is doing a good job.
(b)Co-Chair Eduardo KM6LSX asked for an update on the Quick Reference Guide (QRG)
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posted on the Town’s website. Neil K2LL responded that he asked for specific
directions/suggestions to be either posted on the comment sections of the QRG Google
drive or send him an email so that he would be able to work on the refreshing and
enhancing the current QRG.
(c)Scott N6NXI commented that relative low Ham participation on the Monday SPECS
check-in as compared with those at Mountain View and Sunnyvale. The responses from
the folk at the meeting were:
1.Need reminder on the specifics of the Monday night SPECS to participate.
2.Make an explicit allowance for those who just want to check in and out without the
need to make comments over the net.
4.New Business
(a)Neil K2LL asked for member approval for repair or replacement of the Kenwood TM-
D710A for Alternate EOC. He estimated that the repair costs might be comparable to
buying a new radio, but without the built-in TNC feature. Scott N6NXI moved to buy a
replacement radio for the Alternate EOC at no more than $400, tax and shipping
included. Ben KK6HH seconded the motion and all 7 members in attendance voiced
their assent. The motion was approved.
(b)Co-chair Eduardo KM6LSX asked for volunteers to plan for the Dec 3 Annual Ham
Bake meeting. He got a lot of positive responses. A spreadsheet will be sent out to fill in
the details for dishes/drinks.
(c)ECC EC drills/activities/plan: Neil asked whether the folk at the meeting are interested
in learning cross-band repeating and/or programming radios/others. After some
discussion, he decided that he would offer an exercise/drill on how to program various
HT’s and asked all to bring their HT’s to the next meeting in November.
(d)Update ECC vest status: Mauri and Neil showed the new standard-conforming lime
ECC vest in the meeting. After discussion, it was decided:
1.Coordinate with CERT so the vest could be adapted for both ECC and CERT. For
example, a Velcro-backed emblem could be put on the vest to display either ECC or
CERT affiliation, or both.
2.Mauri would bring 5 vests of various sizes to the November meeting for
members/associates to fit and choose appropriate sizes.
(e)Member Volunteer needed to maintained inventory spreadsheet: Jay KN6JAY
volunteered to take over the job from Mauri. Mauri mentioned that Duncan would still be
willing to help and offer consulting.
5.Old Business
(a)CERT: Communications, ARK, Antenna site follow up. Capt. Gluhan KM6IFY reported
these are still work in progress. The ARK building remains off-limits.
(b)Scott N6NXI commented that radio dead spots had been studied in various locations
around Town. He suggested that Ed W7WPO share at the next meeting his past studies
of the subject.
6.Tech Talks:
(a)Neil has covered the subject on item 4 (c).
(b)Update on LA/LAH JOTA & history Museum Exhibit. nothing new for this month.
7.Adjourn: At 20:25, Terry KM6LTQ moved to adjourn; Andy WB6CLS second, approved.
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Respectfully submitted: Ben Hu KK6HH, Secretary