Posts by Naomi Poole

***CPG LA meeting data***

    The LA CPG meets at Delphi Academy, 11341 Brainard Avenue, Lake View Terrace, CA (Missy Schlaich’s courseroom), starting promptly at 7 PM. Please arrive early! UPCOMING CPG MEETING SCHEDULE Thursday, June 4 – CPG meeting – getting organized to get prepared NOW, including emergency communications and the survival binder (Sunday, June 14 – special meeting at Neal’s for Div heads & above and POD holders and those interested in hosting a POD.  Contact Neal if interested at   Sunday, June 28 (a week later than Father’s Day June 21) go over your Survival binder (“the papers”) practice on
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Categories: LA Only.

CPG LA general meeting summaries & notes

Below you will find links to CPG LA general meeting notes, for member reference.  Some are typed summaries; some are Shellah’s handwritten notes.  Please do not distribute to non-members in any form.   Minutes CPG meeting 150517 CPG General Meeting Notes 03-01-15 CPG LA General Meeting Notes 02-12-15 CPG LA General Mtg Notes 01-25-15 CPG LA 01-15-15 Div 6 Meeting with Koreen Brennan notes by Caroline CPG LA General Mtg Notes 01-08-15 Koreen & Ham demo CPG General Meeting 12-07-14 Summary CPG General Mtg Notes 12-07-14 Minutes CPG general Meeting 11-20-14 USG LA notes Genl Mtg 11-02-14  
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How to become a Ham Radio operator

Below is an excellent and helpful write-up by CPG LA member and Ham Radio I/C Alan Morrisett  to help anyone interested in becoming involved with Ham Radio. (There is a some time-sensitive data relevant to LA as well.) _________________ Ham radio licensing in the U.S comes in three levels:  Technician, General, and Amateur Extra.  To start with you’ll want to get a Technician license, which is in any case required to get a higher level license and which is the first gradient in your hatting.  It may be all that you will ever need or want, depending on your goal for
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Categories: 1-Communications Devices and LA Only.

LA Community/Earthquake preparedness info links

Los Angeles Fire Department Emergency Preparedness  booklet (59-page PDF) CERT-LA.com/emergprepbooklet.pdf Emergency preparedness resource for kids & parents & teachers  http://www.ready.gov/kids free CERT (Community Emergency Response) Training  http://www.cert-la.com/ Red Cross first aid training http://5steps.la/ which is for the City of LA Eathquake preparedness – before, during & after National Fire Protection Association make a home fire escape plan (includes a grid to draw it out)   A lady who has been doing seminars for many years on earthquake preparedness April Kelcy Consultant, Speaker, Author and Founder of Earthquake Solutions 626-483-0626 E-Mail:   Earthquake SOLUTIONS | 140 E Palm Avenue | Monrovia |
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Categories: General Information and LA Only.

comm & security – articles & info

articles of interest (new items posted all the time) 35 Government Agencies to Share Your Medical Records through Obamacare http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feds-plan-35-agencies-help-collect-share-use-electronic-health-info_821037.html Software product called Beware made by Intrado — already purchased by police departments since 2012 — runs a search on you over the entire Internet that includes all public records, all social networking, including “comments that could be construed as offensive,” and other indicators…  In moments digests it all down and returns a simple “Threat Rating” assigned to you (red, orange, yellow).  Like a credit score http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-scanning-social-media-assign-threat-rating/ http://urgentcomm.com/intrado/intrado-steve-reed-talks-about-integrating-beware-tool-motorola-solutions-idp-platform http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/12/12/police-data-mining-looks-through-social-media-assigns-you-a-threat-level/ CONGRESS PASSES BILL WHICH GRANTS “UNLIMITED ACCESS TO COMMUNICATIONS OF EVERY AMERICAN” ‏
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Categories: 1-Communications Devices.

CPG LA ham radio team

CPG LA people interested in learning ham radio and being ham radio operators for the group (alpha order):  Ham Radio I/C =  Alan Morrissett  home 818-353-3331, cell 818 314-3986 Interested: George Anderson (contact through his work number, 818-408-4100) David Dewey    cell  818 209-4939Brett Fernau       323-662-7559 Bob Harrisen (818)394-9997, 818-249-8085. Pete Kinne    818-951-0714 Tina Kinne  818-951-0714 Cal Poole  home 818-890-7089 Dick Sullivan   323 793-3040
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LA policies & approval lines

Anything to be sent out to the active members (or the whole list) need approval by Mark S or George A. All preparation checklists need to go through USG LA (Mark/EC) for approval, then to the correct divisional head at CPG Int & Lee Wilson as Qual. Proposed policies need to go through CPG LA (Mark/EC).   (if broader than LA, then to to David Sanders CGP Int ED)
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