TULARE COUNTY ARES WEEKLY NET

NET CONTROL SCRIPT (remember to ID your station every 10 minutes)

Preamble

QST, QST, QST, calling all radio amateurs. This is _____________ (Give your name and call) Net Control for Tulare County Amateur Radio Emergency Service. This net meets every Monday at 1930 hours local time on the KE6WDX repeater, 145.310 Megahertz output and 144.710 Megahertz input. We want to thank the Porterville Amateur Repeater Association for the use of their machine.

The purpose of this net is to maintain a core of trained Amateur Radio Operators to provide back-up emergency communications where needed. This is a directed net and permission to pass traffic should be obtained from net control. However, this net may be broken at any time for emergency traffic. Is there any emergency traffic at this time?

(Pause)

Are there any ARRL officials present tonight?

(If any, acknowledge him and solicit any inputs he may have.)

Will our Tulare County ARES Emergency Coordinator and Assistant Emergency Coordinators please check in?

Emergency Coordinator for Tulare County:

Hal KC5LUB o

Assistant Emergency Coordinators:

Jim WA7HRG o Ray W6RAY o

Are there any questions for our EC’s?

(Pause)

Anyone desiring further information on the Tulare County ARES should send an email to kc5lub at arrl dot net.

This is (callsign) for the Tulare County ARES net. Moving on to roll call.

Roll Call

I will be taking ARES members check-ins by roll call. Please listen for your name to be called.

(move to roll call sheet.)

Visitor Check-ins

Are there any visitors that would like to check-in at this time. (list visitors below member check-ins) Please give your callsign. When acknowledged, I will need your name and location along with your callsign phonetically. Visitors please check in now. Callsigns only, please.

All Tulare County ARES members are reminded of the need to have experience controlling a net and directing traffic. The net control position rotates weekly among the members. If you wish to obtain net control experience, please respond when requested. Next week the net control position will be filled by ___________ .

(If no one has volunteered, than solicit a net control.)

Closing

Thank you for checking in. We had a total of _______members and visitors. This concludes tonight’s session of the Tulare County ARES net at ____________hours local time. I am restoring the repeater to normal operation. 73 (callsign).