EARS Monday Night Net
The Information Net is held each Monday at 8:00pm on 147.135+
and 443.425+. Information of interest to the Amateur Radio Community is
provided. Click here for the latest Net
statistics.
If you would like to run a Net we welcome you to the Net Control
position. Nets can be run from your home, HT, mobile or from the Club
Station. If you want to run the Net from the Club Station, contact Bob,
KM5GZ at KM5GZ@juno.com prior to the
Net. If you are going to run the Net from a home, HT or mobile station,
please make sure your equipment is functional and has enough power to reach the
repeater reliably.
The following are downloadable documents for the Net:
Net Script
Net Log
The following is the Net script:
Edmond
Amateur Radio Society Monday Night
Information Net Script
Good evening and welcome to the Edmond Amateur Radio Society's Monday Night
Information Net. This is (Your Call Sign) and my name is (Name). I
am located at (Location) and tonight I will be your Net Control. This Net
meets every Monday evening at 8:00 pm local time on the 147.135 and 443.425 UHF
repeaters as well as through the
Chickasha
repeater to
Lawton.
The purpose of this Net is to provide information of interest to Amateur Radio
operators in the
Central Oklahoma
area. All Amateurs are welcome to join this net. This is a controlled net and
all contacts should be made through Net Control.
When checking into this Net, please give your call sign slowly and phonetically,
give your name, location and indicate if you have any traffic, bulletins or
announcements. We will now pause to see if there is any emergency or priority
traffic. Please come now. (Pause)
If at any time during the Net, should an emergency arise, please notify Net
Control. We will stand by and allow those in need access to this repeater. I
will now start taking check-ins. First I will take check-ins with traffic,
bulletins, or announcements. Then I will take general check-ins. Anyone with
traffic, bulletins or announcements, please come now.
(Acknowledge those with traffic.)
We'll get to the traffic in just a moment. Now we'll take general check-ins,
with or without traffic. Again, please give your call sign phonetically and give
your name and location. Anybody who would like to check into the Edmond Monday
Night Information Net with or without traffic, please come now.
(Acknowledge check-ins.)
(Name of 1st Traffic) we'll be getting to you in just a moment... Are
there any other check-ins at this time? This is Your Call Sign. Please
come now.
(Acknowledge check-ins.)
Okay, at this time we'll go to Name for his/her announcement. Call
Sign with Traffic this is Your Call Sign, go ahead with your traffic.
(Go to another piece of traffic or ask for
general check-ins again. Intersperse announcements with rounds of check-ins.)
(After you have handled all announcements
and traffic and feel you've received all the check-ins you are going to get, you
can wind down the Net). Well, I think it's about time to wind down
this session of the Edmond Amateur Radio Society's Monday Night Information Net.
I want to thank all of you for your participation this evening, and hope you
have a great week. Tune in again next week when we will meet again on this same
frequency at 8:00pm local time. This is Your Call Sign closing down this
week's edition of the Edmond Amateur Radio Society's Monday Night Information
Net. I will now return the repeater to normal operation. KM5GZ, if you will
stand by, I will give you my Net Report.
(After totaling your statistics, call for
Bob to take your report.) KM5GZ, this is Your Call Sign. Are
you ready to copy my report? (Wait for
Bob's response.)
This is Your Call Sign, Net Control for the Date edition of the
EARS Monday Night Information Net. This is my Routine Number (Your
personal # Net in the current year. e.g. This is my Routine Number 1).
The Net began at 8:00pm and ended at Local Time. We had a total of Number
check-ins, and Number pieces of traffic. (Your
count should include each actual piece of traffic. One person may announce 4
items which would equal 4 pieces of traffic). Bob will acknowledge your report,
and the Net is complete.
NOTES:
- Remember to identify your station (give your call sign) every 10 minutes
throughout the Net.
- When it is appropriate for a listener to contact the traffic announcer
directly, such as in the case where someone is asking for volunteers for an
event, when they finish giving the announcement, you can ask "If you would
like to contact (Name) direct,
his/her call is (Give Call Sign of
Announcer)." This gives people an opportunity to come back with
a direct conversation with the announcer. This procedure should be done since
everything is to go through the Net Control, and people should not break in to
ask for the announcer, without your having given permission.
- Occasionally, during a round of check-ins, someone will break in with
"Re-Check." This means that someone who has already checked in wishes
to say something. Finish your round of check-ins first. After that, you can
either go immediately to the Re-Check, or tell the Re-Check that you will get
back to him shortly, and acknowledge your check-ins first.
- You may sometimes hear someone trying to get into the Net, but not able to
make the repeater. Leave time for them to make the attempt, and others may
continue to check-in also. When you come back to acknowledge, you can indicate
that you heard someone trying to check-in and they weren't making it, and if
they don't hear their name acknowledged, would they try again on the next round.
- If you ever experience purposeful interference (someone keying up, playing
music, etc.) the best response is to completely ignore it and draw no attention
to the interference. Simply go on with the Net when you are able.
- If you miss someone's Name or Call Sign, when you are acknowledging the round,
stop at that point and ask the person to repeat the portion you did not copy.
- You can use a copy of the following check-in form, but you may wish to devise
your own system that works for you. Put some sort of marking alongside those
people who have announcements, or who Re-Check so you will remember to go back
to them.
- Most importantly -- Relax and enjoy. You will do a great job; you'll have fun,
and everyone out there is on your side! 73, K5EOK
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