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Emergency Communications Committee Minutes
Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm.
The meeting was held via ZOOM Online Video Conference
Members (9)Call Sign Attendance
Dru Anderson, Co-Chair KG6LAD P
Eduardo Arias, Co-Chair KM6LSX P
Bob Anderson KC6ZWG P
Ben H. L. Hu, Secretary KK6HH P
Edwin R Jones W7WPO P
Terry Kearney KM6LTQ E
Andrew Kirk WB6CLS P
Scott Overstreet N6NXI P
Jay Sutaria KN6JAY P
Sam Wood K6MSR P
Council/Staff
Lisa Schmidt, LAH Council Council
Liaison E
Associate Members (4)
Neil Katin K2LL P
Peter Evans AI6MV P
Larry Carr KE6AGJ P
Robert Johnson KG6UWZ P
Guests (2)
J Logan LAHCFD Guest P
Victoria Bebee, LAHCFD KN6HOU P
1.At 7:01 pm, Dru KG6LAD called the Zoom meeting to order. Ben KK6HH did the roll call
A quorum of members present was 7 out of 10. Later, Jay KN6JAY (at 19:07) and Andy
WB6CLS (at 19:30) joined. The attendance then totaled 15, including 9 members, 4
associates, and 2 guests.
a.Dru advised that this Zoom meeting would be recorded. Recordings are first in Zoom
cloud, which has limited storage capacity. They are later downloaded by town staff to
Vimeo storage, where they remain available.
b.Scott N6NXI announced the sad news that Maynard Stevenson W7MVT became a
silent key last Thursday (5/27/2021). Dru then called for a moment of silence in honor
of the passing of an ECC founding member.
c.Dru introduced Lisa Schmidt as our new ECC Council Liaison. Lisa had swapped her
Council Liaison assignment with Council Member Stanley Mok.
d.Sam K6MSR, moved to approve the May 4 minutes. Scott N6NXI seconded, and the
motion was approved by 7 members present and abstained by Jay KN6JAY, who was
not present in the May meeting.
2.LAH CERT Training/Activities/Special Events.
Victoria KN6HOU made a 4-slide presentation (Appendix 1) on the CERT activities. The
highlights were:
●Proposed a joint drill between ECC and CERT on 9/18/2021.
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●Solicited an experienced Ham at Teen CERT to act as technical liaison/mentor for
the Teens.
3.Planning and coordination with ECC (Goal #2), Victoria KN6HOU/Dru KG6LAD. Status
update: Potential: Joint drill of Town Staff/ECC/CERT team.
Dru proposed July 22 (Thu) between 4-5 pm to have a joint drill with Town
Staff/ECC/CERT teams. Neil responded that the drill had to be ended by 6:00 pm due to
his schedule. It was decided to further discuss.
a.Dru stated that she and others noticed at the EOC during the last drill that the Town
Emergency contact list and other postings needed to be updated. Neil K2LL EC also
had suggested putting a notice by the packet station to make certain that the PC that
operates the packed radio should always remain “on”.
b.Dru announced that at the July meeting, all committees are required to conduct the
annual election of committee officers.
c.Larry KG6AGJ reported that he intended to refresh a new CERT recon team starting in
September 2021. Additionally, he noted that he would be a great resource for
emergency communication coverage as he had the privilege to have cell phone access
via FirstNet for having been a volunteer firefighter.
4.Committee Liaison: Councilmember Lisa Schmidt. Deferred due to flight delay. Update on
status on her special council project: Fire Safety Task Force activities.
5.Old Business
a.Follow-on status from May 4 ECC meeting: Next steps of a potential LAHEDN.
●Peter AI6MV stated that the staff at Purissima Water district had been working on
their aspect of the discussion regarding accommodating a wireless antenna
installation of LAHEDN and considering responsibilities and site work detail.
●Neil EC K2LL pointed out that there likely is a need for an updated installation bid,
reflecting the site consideration updates.
●Dru asked Neil to keep Dave WQ1K apprised of the status of LAHEDN. In later
discussions, it was suggested that Peter, AI6MV, Scott N6NXI would be added to
the off-line discussion of the proposed installation logistics.
●There was no vote on the status-only item.
b.Eduardo KM6LSX reported that he had completed the recruiting appeal, and LAH town
staff had submitted it to various social media sites and plans to repeat the posts soon.
The item was information only, no vote needed.
c.Jay KM6JAY stated he had completed the inventory report and submitted it to the co-
chairs. He suggested an annual inventory examination to keep the report updated. For
equipment check-out, he questioned the efficiency of the paper forms and suggested
an easier to track, online alternative. Dru opined that she would check with the Town
Clerk to confirm whether online only without paperwork is acceptable to the Town.
There was no action or vote, and the discussion is on-going.
6.EC Report:
a.Neil, EC, K2LL reported that County EC training session posting is still being worked
on for either remote vs onsite training as the COVID situation is improving in the
County.
b.As the result of hotwash of last ECC drill, he suggested:
i.Use Monday night SPECS time slot to practice “Message Passing” monthly.
ii.Suggest practice of both Simplex radio and message relay.
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iii.Suggest everyone take or retake the County's message passing course. Peter
AI6MV added it is essential to practice constantly to improve the skill after taking
the course.
7.Health and welfare check-in. Dru inquired about the well-being of all attendees and
received mostly positive responses.
8.Adjourn. At 20:39, Bob KC6ZWG moved to adjourn, both Scott N6NXI and Eduardo
KM6LSX seconded, and all acceded by a voice vote.
9.Reminders: See online schedules for activities in the following:
LAH town events: http://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/calendar.aspx.
EMERGENCY ALERTS: LAH: http://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/101/Emergency
AlertSCC: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/alertscc/Pages/home.aspx
CERT activities: LAH County Fire District:
http://www.lahcfd.org/community-programs/public-classes
County ARES/RACES courses & events:
http://www.scc-ares-races.org/aresraces.htm
SPECS Monday Night Net information:
www.Specsnet.org Northern SCC ham activities/Monday night net script.
Respectfully submitted: Ben Hu KK6HH, ECC Secretary
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Appendix - Victoria Bebee’s slide presentations on 6/1/2021
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