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2023 Public Safety Forum

1 Nov 2023

On October 19, Cupertino's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) sponsored the Public Safety Forum held at the Quinlan Community Center. It's an annual event for the residents and the business community to connect with local and regional public safety officials, including the Sheriff’s office and the Fire Department. Of course, Cupertino Citizens Corps was present with CARES bringing out Comm 469.

Attendees learned about volunteer opportunities, disaster preparedness, and more while enjoying light refreshments from Starbucks and Pineapple Thai. In case you missed it, a recording of the event will be available in the coming days on the City's YouTube channel and the City's website.
  


2023 September general meeting... In-Person?

Posted by Jim  KN6PE, 8 Jul 2023

Its been more than 3 years since we had one of our traditional CARES in-person general meetings. I think we are all missing the interactions that we had with each other as well as the chance to do some live show-n-tell of the latest radio, antenna, or field technique.

While I think its time to give it a try, the post-COVID hurdle is now finding a room that we can use that is relatively central to the City, and free. Ken KI6SYY is working with Cupertino Parks and Rec to see if we can secure a room in Quinlan Center in a way that does not require any night $taff. This is the current holdup. As soon as we know, we will get the word out to the group.   


2023 Field Day was fantastic !

Posted by Darryl KI6LDM, 24 Jun 2023

For field day, you either have great weather or great propagation. We had great weather and what a day we had!

This year’s CARES 2023 Field Day was fantastic to say the least. We did very well for the score (see below) and had a wonderful turnout from 19 CARES members who came out and helped make this year’s event a success!

We operated three HF stations using ONE hex beam antenna running on three separate bands. We also had the 2 of these HF stations logging on laptops that were networked together using the N1MM Logger+.

Along with our operations, we had over 20 community visitors and plenty of official visitors including Cupertino's OEM Emergency Manager, Cupertino City Council members, Kristen K6WX / ARRL Pacific Division Director, James NV6W / ARRL Area Section Manager, and Andreas K6OTT / SCCo Acting DEC.

Our score of 1,618 points was excellent for 5 hours of operation! In fact, this is the highest score we have seen. Nice job everyone!!   


Plenty of Rain... are we ready?

Posted by Jim  KN6PE, 2 Mar 2023

If you missed tonight's topic on Disaster Communications by Steve KK6FPI, then you missed an excellent presentation.

While we have been waiting for the "big one", the Bay Area, and Cupertino, has experienced its share of different events that remind us why we got into Emergency Communications in the first place. The recent rain has caused spot power outages and fortunately they have have been quickly resolved. But, what if they persisted for hours? Or days? Getting ready for a loss of communications and other problems is what CARES is all about.   


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Upcoming Activities


23 Mar 2024, CCC Hands-on Radio
Follow-on FRS/GMRS radio use, familiarization, and simple practice, Monta Vista ARK, 10:00a to 12:00p.   

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