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Santa Clara County ARES/RACES website: http://www.scc-ares-races.org
SVECS Weekly Net on Tuesday Nights at 2000 hours on AA6BT (146.115+, PL100.0)
Dates for city responsibility of SVECS Net Control Updated 1-4-20
SVECS CheckIns XLS spreadsheet to track totals when doing SVECS net. Updated 6-13-18 (originally created by John Nourse AI6EH).
Go to County ARES/RACES page here, https://www.scc-ares-races.org/data/packet/weekly-packet-practice.html
SVECS Membership Application, (click here for PDF form)
Santa Clara County local HF net
HF net at 20:30 hours local time on 80 meters, 3.878MHz LSB
Click here for more details.
Lou WA6QYS Receives Award from City of Santa Clara
Text from Santa Clara FD Facebook page:
Mr. Lou Steirer received the City of Santa Clara’s Volunteer of the Year Award at the Santa Clara County Emergency Managers Association (EMA) Annual Awards Luncheon [Dec 12th] at Levi’s Stadium. Lou is pictured here with EMA President and City of Santa Clara Emergency Services Coordinator Lisa Schoenthal.
Lou is a highly valued volunteer with the City’s Amateur Radio Emergency Services/Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services Team (ARES/RACES). For over 30 years, Lou has coordinated quarterly breakfasts for the Silicon Valley Emergency Communications System at the Santa Clara Senior Center.
| Chairman | Lou Steirer, WA6QYS | (408) 241-7999 | wa6qys@aol.com | |||
| Treasurer | Don Steinbach, AE6PM | (408) 867-3912 | ae6pm@arrl.net | |||
| Secretary | Bob Underwood, AA6BT | (408) 255-1997 | aa6bt@arrl.net | |||
| Board of Directors | ||||||
| Ben Vickers, WB6FRM | wb6frm@pacbell.net | |||||
| Glen Lokke, Jr., K6GNG | glokke@pacbell.net | |||||
| Gregg Lane, KF6FNA | kf6fna@comcast.net | |||||
| Rusty Rustermier, KI6ZSK | rustermier@gmail.com | |||||
| SVECS Address: |
SVECS Santa Clara Valley 14600 Bougainvillea Ct Saratoga, CA 95070 |
Tutorials and References: (Click here for more)
Earthquake Reporting Procedures (pdf)
Modified Mercalli, or Mike Mike, scale used by SCC RACES in wallet size (pdf)
FEMA ICS/NIMS online courses
Recommended Basic Emergency Management Course Completion
Emergency Responder Manual (pdf)
Amateur Radio Related Links
What is ARES? What is RACES?
Previous Speakers at Quarterly Breakfast Meetings
Santa Clara County ARES/RACES website: http://www.scc-ares-races.org
SPECS, Southern Peninsula Emergency Communication System (North County):
http://www.specsnet.org
Previous Speakers at Quarterly Breakfast Meetings
SVECS Quarterly Breakfasts are on the fourth Saturday of January, April, July, and October.
That would be Jan 25, Apr 25, July 25, and Oct 24 in 2020.
Santa Clara Senior Center
1303 Fremont St. (corner of Monroe and Fremont)
Santa Clara, CA
GPS coordinates: 37.350269, -121.949827
Thomas Guide page 833 quadrant E4
click here for map
Due to the ongoing gathering restrictions imposed to combat the spread of COVID 19, it is necessary to cancel the October 24th 2020 SVECS Quarterly Breakfast.
The door prize and breakfast prices needed to be adjusted to conform to our budget. The door prize will be $100 and the breakfast cost will be $6. I hope this will not inconvenience anyone. We need to know how many attendees to plan for, so please RSVP on your city nets or to wa6qys @ aol.com or 408-241-7999. People giving city counts can also give number of breakfast counts) on the SVECS net (AA6BT, 146.115+ 100PL) Tuesdays 2000 hours.
Door prizes: $100 gift certificate.
Donations for the raffle table are graciously accepted. Please bring your gently used surplus items.
Image shows Glen Jr. K6GNG, Chief Cook, of SVECS.
Antennas are sold at DeAnza electronics flea market (next to coffee/donut tent) and also at Quarterly Breakfast Meetings. Electronics Flea Market site at http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com
Photos of J-pole antennas for sale. Antennas are available for 2-meter VHF, 220 MHz, and 440MHz.
| Michael Wright, K6MFW SVECS Webpage Editor (650) 604-6262 mfwright@batnet.com |
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Notes:
Many thanks to Hee So, N6XVK, for setting up the domain and initial webhosting for svecs.net.
N6NAC returned as UHF linked repeater (8-18-2008)
K6SNY became new UHF linked repeater, previously was N6NAC (May 2008)
SVECS AA6BT Repeater old callsign was WB6ADZ (was changed early in 2003).
N6NAC (440 repeater) old callsign was
WB6FIY (was changed in mid 2003).