Colleagues:
We will hold our June Critical Mass training/exercise this coming Sunday, June 21st, at 1000, on Zoom. Your invitation to Zoom will follow along with your credentials.
The topic of our training this weekend will be Repeaters. We have done quite a bit of training on repeater procedures and protocol in our prior sessions. After we use our newly reconfigured simulcast repeater system to check into the Sunday Net, Doug and I will discuss the basic components of a FM voice repeater system, how our simulcast system works and introduce you to each of the repeater sites in our system. This will include an introduction to our newest site on Bahia Ridge in Novato.
I have also attached the draft operating protocol for our public service operations under the current COVID 19 pandemic. This protocol is based upon specific direction given the organizations we support by the Marin Department of Health as an express condition of their being allowed to conduct their events. Michael Fischer has submitted the attached protocol to the County for their review and approval. We are asking you to review this document and give feedback to Michael on any issues you see or that we may have missed. We will attempt to train under these conditions and this protocol at our next Critical Mass in July in preparation for our Public Service Marin Century Training Drill on August 1st and our first live Public Service exercises which start later than month. Please send your comments to Michael at fischer@igc.org or michaelfischer149@gmail.com.
You will hear from me again with your Zoom invitation/credentials and will see you all on Sunday.
Thanks and 73,
Milt – – KM6ASI
