The Lamorinda Community Emergency Communications Team (CECT) is a volunteer emergency communications team based in the Lamorinda Region of California. People from Orinda, Moraga, Lafayette, and Canyon are teaming up to create a radio auxiliary team serving these communities. Anyone in the community with an interest in Emergency Communications is welcome to participate in our meetings, training, and drills. Trained and qualified volunteers are always of value in times of distress.

Membership in the Lamorinda Community Emergency Communications Team is free. Membership is open to anyone interested in community radio communications (FRS, GMRS, or amateur radio). The group encourages and assists interested members in getting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Amateur Radio (ham) Service licenses to augment their existing radio skills. See How To Get Your Ham License.

Weekly Net Schedule

K6ORI has a weekly amateur radio net on Wednesday nights at 7:45PM which "meets" on the BAYNET (www.baynet.org) East Bay Hills repeater (443.975+100.0). Net control optionally directs people checking in to Area (City) Simplex nets on Lafayette (146.490), Moraga (147.585), Orinda (147.540), or Canyon (146.460) assigned frequencies.

We encourage any Lamorinda-based ham to participate in these weekly nets. We invite any other hams who hear either of these nets to check in as well.

Training Opportunities

We are supporting Orinda in Action day on Saturday, April 18th. Operators will meet at Theater Square at 8:30AM where we will organize the day's activity. We will be using both VHF and UHF frequencies so a dual band rig is needed.

There are no scheduled FRS Radio Communications classes currently scheduled.

We are through our 3rd session of the latest Technician Class License Preparation course. Classes are being held in Fire Station #45 at 6:15PM Tuesdays. It looks like we will get through the question pool by the end of the fourth session on the 21st of April. Then we'll have a couple of review sessions between then and the 15th of May when MDARC offers VE testing. We have four adults and three teen-agers from local Boy Scout troops in the class and it has been great fun to teach!

No other training or drills are scheduled at this time.

K6ORI New and Press

For the Lamorinda Weekly article about the new radio facilities at the Orinda City Office Building follow this link.

For the Lamorinda Weekly article about our February 21st exercise follow this link.

On 4/1, George KJ6VU announced that the Baynet system now has a 2m repeater tied in on 145.390-100.0. This new machine is on Black Mountain down near San Jose so it may not be too terrific from Lamorinda but he wanted us to know about it.

K6ORI Notes

Calendar Frequencies Operating Aids Other Resources

April 2009 Nets

Call sign	4/1	4/8	4/15	4/22	4/29
	Members
N4DLA	C	.	C	.	.
K6DSS	C	C	C	C	.
K6KWR	.	.	.	.	.
W6MDH	C	.	N	.	.
KQ6OL	C	.	C	C	.
KI6OUI	C	C	.	.	.
KI6OUJ	C	.	C	.	.
KI6OUM	C	C	C	C	.
KI6OUN	C	C	C	C	.
KI6QNT	.	C	C	.	.
KF6QYF	.	.	C	.	.
K6REQ	C	.	.	C	.
KI6RSR	.	C	C	.	.
KI6RSY	N	N	C	.	.
KI6RSX	.	C	C	.	.
N6UPS	.	C	.	N	.
KB6VOD	C	C	.	C	.
COUNT	11	10	12	7	.
	Guests
W6AHD	.	C	C	.	.
KF6BIL	.	.	.	.	.
KF6BIM	C	C	.	.	.
KI6CRL	C	C	C	C	.
KI6KGN	.	.	.	C	.
W7NHL	.	.	.	C	.
KJ6VU	C	C	.	C	.
KF6YKK	.	.	.	C	.
COUNT	14	14	14	12	.

NOTES: N = Net Control, C = Checked in, E = Early Letter after slash indicates Simplex

Weekly Net Schedule

The weekly net control operators planned are:

• 4/29: KI6OUJ - Dan
• 5/06: K6DSS - Duncan
• 5/13: TBD