Palo Alto Emergency Communications
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We conduct quarterly exercises in conjunction with Santa Clara County ARES/RACES. These are generally held from 1400-1600 on the Saturday following the third Thursday of January, April, July, and October.

Exercise dates for 2003 are:

January 25, 2003

There will be a county-wide exercise on Saturday, January 25, 2003 from 1400 to 1600. This is a RACES drill, so you must be DSW registered to participate. The Palo Alto response will include a PANDA radio component.

Unless you receive a different assignment ahead of time, at 1400 please check in with the Palo Alto EOC (Tactical call = PALO ALTO) on 147.54 simplex. You will be asked to respond with your radio to a location in the city.

Background here.

Nine hams participated in this exercise: we activated the EOC, PANDA 5 and PANDA 4.


April 19, 2003

July 19, 2003

There will be a county-wide exercise on Saturday, July 19, 2003 from 1400 to 1600. The planned Palo Alto response includes activation of the EOC, four PANDA trailers, and the OES.

Unless you receive a different assignment ahead of time, at 1400 (2:00PM) please monitor the Palo Alto simplex frequency 147.54. Check in when a call for the exercise is made by net control (Tactical call = PALO ALTO). Net control will give you an assignment. You may be asked to respond with your radio to a location in the city. See you then.

October 18, 2003

This page was last updated   7/18/03