Cupertino Community Communications
Resource Page


FRS/GMRS Channels | Training | References | Videos
Last Updated: 14 March 2024


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

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Training

2024

2023

2022

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References

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

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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.

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Presentations

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Upcoming Activities


30 Mar 2024, Big Bunny 5K
For this annual public service event, CARES needs net controllers, field responders and a shadow. 7:30 to 10:30 am   More Details...

4 Apr 2024, General Meeting
Topic: TBD, St Jude Parish Hall, 19:30 to 21:00   

2 May 2024, General Meeting
Topic: TBD, St Jude Parish Hall, 19:30 to 21:00   

18 May 2024, MRC Exercise
Minimal CARES participation (Field and NCO) and traffic. Location, Time TDB.   

6 Jun 2024, General Meeting
Field Day Prep, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00   

22 Jun 2024, ARRL Field Day
Tentative: Memorial Park | Parking lot behind Quinlan Center, 10185 N Stelling Rd. 08:00 to 17:00