Cupertino Community Communications
Resource Page
Introduction
This page contains information for Cupertino Affiliated Volunteers (CARES, CERT, MRC, Block Leaders, Neighborhood Watch teams)
about Cupertino's efforts to deliver emergency radio communications services to the city in the event of communications outage, disaster, or other emergency.
This page will be updated as additional material is identified.
FRS/GMRS Channel Assignment
Find your ARK Zone will help you find in which Cupertino ARK Zone you live.
July 2023
| Zone / ARK | Channel, Tone |
|---|---|
Zone 1 / Monta Vista ARK |
Channel 1, Tone 21 |
| Zone 2 / Regnart School ARK | Channel 2, Tone 22 |
| Zone 3 / Garden Gate School ARK | Channel 3, Tone 23 |
| Zone 4 / Lawson School ARK | Channel 4, Tone 24 |
| Zone 5 / DeAnza College ARK | Channel 5, Tone 25 |
| Zone 6 / Creekside ARK | Channel 6, Tone 26 |
Training
2024
- 27-Apr-2024 - Comm Exercise After Action Report
- 18-Apr-2024 - Severe Weather Comm Exercise
- 14-Mar-2024 - Communications Refresher and Radio Basics
2023
- 13-Apr-2023 - Communications Refresher and Radio Basics
2022
- 2-Jun-2022 - CTF Evacuation Exercise Retroepective
- 9-May-2022 - CTF Evacuation Comm for Affiliated Volunteers, Recording
- 14-May-2022 - Wildland Fire Evacuation Drill Prep |
Recording
Review of the plan for the evacuation communications exercise. - 30-Mar-2022 - Communications Overview, Radio Basics |
Recording
Background for and the use of FRS and GMRS radio by Cupertino Affiliated Volunteers during an emergency.
References
Phonetic Alphabet (NATO)
May 2024
Cupertino ARK FRS Net Control Script
August 2023
How to pick a FRS Radio
April 2023
CCC Field Communications Handbook
March 2022
ARK Activation Handbook
January 2022
Videos
Communications Overview, Radio Basics
March 31, 2022, 31 min.
The Camp Fire – Phones, Fire and Failures
April 18, 2019, 49 min. Presentation made by Allan Thompson to the Placerville Fire Safe Council.
Per Allan's Phones, Fire and Failures page, This is an audio/video presentation about emergency communications planning and execution that failed during the 2018 Camp Fire and similar events, and suggests ways to help our communities stay safer in the event of similar disasters here.
Radio for the Rest of Us
April 18, 2019, 1hr 3min. Presentation made by Allan Thompson. Per Allan, Radio For The Rest of Us highlights these cell phone and Internet service vulnerabilities, and how our unconscious over-reliance on cell phones for virtually everything puts us at serious risk. The presentation suggests ways how Amateur Radio Clubs might help "the rest of us;" our families, our friends, and our community, stay safer in the face of cell-phone and Internet service failures.
Presentations
Upcoming Activities
3 Oct 2024, General Meeting
Windshield Survey and Drill Prep, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00
19 Oct 2024, CCC Exercise
Communications Exercise using Windshield Survey and Ark Support. 08:00 to 12:00. More Details...
7 Nov 2024, General Meeting
Informal Message Passing, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00
5 Dec 2024, General Meeting
Topic Year End Review, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00