star Lomita Station – District 17
Disaster Communications Service

2015 Events and Activations

Please Sign Up for These Important Participation Opportunities in Addition to Monday Night Nets
December 1, 2015
PV Unified Schools Net
November 19, 2015
Statewide Medical and Health Functional Exercise - Other Hours
November 14, 2015
Palos Verdes Half Marathon
  • Activity Request
  • Sign-In Sheet
  • After Action Report
  • Times:
    Half Marathon: 7:00 am
    10k: 7:00 am; 5k: 7:05 am
  • Location:
    Pelican Cove Park
    31300 Palos Verdes Dr.
    Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
November 3, 2015
Election Night Support to Aero Bureau
November 3, 2015
PV Unified Schools Net
November 1, 2015
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Disaster Preparedness Fair
  • 1200-1600 at the Norris Pavillion
  • S-60, T-22, T-61, T-220
October 29 & 31, 2015
Semi-Annual District Members Meeting
  • Both meetings with identical content
    • Thursday Oct. 29, 1930-2100 hours
    • Saturday Oct. 31, 0900-1030 hours

October 15, 2015
Great California Shakeout
@ 10:15 on 10/15
  • Activity Request
  • Sign-In Sheet
  • After Action Report
We ask members to take their HT radio with them wherever they will be and check in after everyone "drops, covers, and holds."  We expect additional radio traffic with several area cities and possibly a hospital.
October 06, 2015
Monthly PV Unified Schools Net
  • 0930-1100
  • Checking in on the repeater portion operated from the school district's administrative headquarters
  • Operating the drill's simplex portion with all campuses from our radio room at the Lomita Station
September 26, 2015
DCS 3rd Quarter COMEX -

September 26, 2015
Rat Beach Bike Tour - Other Hours
Start/Finish Seaside Lagoon – Redondo Beach

Schedule
  • 0730 Metric Century (62 miles) 
  • 0900 Metric Half Century (31 miles) 
  • 1000 New Beach Fun Ride (15.5 miles)
  • 1330 All Courses Swept
DCS Operators Participating
  • S-60, T-22, T-87
September 22-24, 2015  revised schedule
Palos Verdes Unified School District
Disaster Amateur Radio Annual Technical Inspections
September 17, 2015
CFMB 3rd Quarter COMEX - 0600 to 1400
  • Operating venues 
    • SCC
    • Lost Hills Station
    • Ben Clark Training Center (Riv. County) 
    • Huntington Beach (location to be named later). 
  • Objective: train with the MCUs, Barrett, Harris and Rockwell-Collins radios
  • No amateur frequencies used
September 11-13, 2015
HAMCON 2015
Torrance Marriott Hotel
  • Emergency communication is one of the convention's four program tracks. 
  • L.A. County DCS will be speaking at a session along with our equivalent radio groups from Orange and San Bernardino Counties. 
  • A LASD Mobile Communications Unit will be displayed outside the hotel along with other emcomm vehicles. .
June 27-28, 2015
ARRL Field Day - Other Hours

Members known to have participated in the 2015 Field Day: 
  • At the W6TRW Radio Club, Deane Dana Friendship Park site: Deane, Staff 50 and Mike T-100
  • At the United Amateur Radio Club, Angels Gate Park site in San Pedro: Ray, T-88, who operated CW extensively 
  • At the Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club's Ridgecrest Intermediate School site in Rancho Palos Verdes: Bob, T-22; Cindy, T-223; Dale, T-57; Diana, Staff 60, Gary, T-222; Joe, T-25; Norm, T-219 and Rod, T-224.
June 6, 2015
Gardena Emergency Preparedness & Safety Fair
  • Activity Request
  • Sign-In Sheet
  • After Action Report
  • Diana , T-01; Stuart, T-61 and Larry, T-152 staffed the L.A. County DCS booth shared with Gardena DCS at the City of Gardena's Emergency Preparedness Fair 
  • Gary, T-222, and Cindy, T-223, were also at the Emergency Preparedness Fair all day working in other capacities
  • Among the visitors to our radio communication display were Gardena's Police Chief Ed Medrano and California State Assembly member David Hadley, whose 66th Assembly District covers most of the South Bay cities
  • Twenty DCS Brochures were handed out to potential members
May 16, 2015
Torrance Armed Forces Parade - Other Hours
  • City of Torrance continues its long-standing tradition for the 56th consecutive year hosting an Armed Forces Day Celebration and Parade to honor the sacrifices of our nation's military..
  • Support to the City DSW organization
  • Citi Cable 3 Coverage of the Parade
  • Members Participating:
    • S-50
    • T-100
    • T-125
    • T-139
    • R-01
May 7, 2015
CFMB COMEX - LMT Site
  • Mobile Communications Unit Deployments 
  • Serving at our location were: Diana T-01, Bob, T-22; Dale, T-57; Deane, Staff 50; Larry, T-152; Mike, T-100;  and Norm, T-219.. 
  • Special thanks go to Dale, T-57, for facilitating COMEX use of his church's property and to Larry, T-152, for bringing his military surplus 20-watt HF manpack radio.
  • The 20w manpack was more effective than MCU-4 100w Barrett because of the vehicle's ignition noise.
  • After Action Report 
May 5, 2015
PV Unified Schools Net
April 25, 2015
LACDCS COMEX
  • Message Handling Drill Among the Stations
  • At Station 17: T-01, T-22, T-118, T-125
  • At Station 17C: T-57
  • At Station 3: T-61
  • In the field: S-50, T-100, T-120, T-223
April 7, 2015
PV Unified Schools Net
April 04 & 08, 2015
Semi-annual Membership Meeting &
Message Handling Class
  • Lomita Sheriff's Station Assembly Room on two dates: 
    • Saturday, April 4, from 0900-1030 hours and 
    • Wednesday, April 8, during 1930-2100 hours.
  • Both meetings have identical content--please choose the best date for your schedule.
  • Presentation material is available here.
March 15, 2015
Los Angeles Marathon - Other Hours
  • Emergency operations with public safety agencies under field conditions
  • Staff 50 at the Mulit-Agency Command Center
  • T-01 one of the net control operators
  • Other operators from LHS, CVS and ELA also participated



Save the date for next year:  14 February 2016
March 3, 2015
PV Unified Schools Net
February 25 - March 1, 2015
Islands on the Air DXpetition NA-066 Catalina
- Other Hours
  • Participating this year were: Bob, T-22; Chris, formerly Staff 66; Diana, T-01; Joe, T-25; Norm, T-219 and Ray, T-88, the Dxpedition leader
  • The team hauled nearly 1,500 pounds of gear (including food and supplies) to set up three HF
    stations at Two Harbors
  • Re-evaluated plans because of a major winter storm
  • Joe, T-25, along with a member of Palos Verdes Estates' NART radio group, made history in ham
    radio's "Summits On The Air" program as the first amateur operators to make HF contacts from Catalina Island's 1,800-foot Silver Peak after an eight-mile hike.
February 19, 2015
CFMB Radio Rodeo LMT Site
  • Initial site was at Deane Dana Friendship Park, but moved to the San Pedro Elks Lodge grounds to accommodate the large Station A Mobile Communications Unit
  • Participants 
    • Diana, T-01 
    • Bob, T-22 
    • Mike T-100
    • Norm, T-219
    • Gary, T-222
    • Cindy, T-223
    • Deane, Staff 50

February 3, 2015
PV Unified Schools Net
February 1, 2015
Redondo Beach Superbowl 5/10K
District 17 supports the Redondo DSW organization
Participants:
  • Deane, Staff 50
  • Diana, T-01
  • Matthew, T-87
  • Mike, T-100
  • Curtis, T-124
  • Norm, T-219, who served as net control operator

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