Net Start Time: 7:00 PM Sunday evenings

Frequency: 147.075+ MHz (W0CVJ Repeater)

(Net should be called on 147.075 simplex if repeater is not functioning).

Note: This script is not "set in stone" and the net control station should feel free to

deviate from what is listed here; however this general format is suggested).

Script:

"CQ Howard County and Northeast Iowa. This is <insert your call sign here> calling the

Tri-State Amateur Radio Club Two-Meter A.R.E.S. net. This net meets each Sunday evening at 7 PM on the 147.075 repeater to inform local amateurs of news, events, and promote amateur radio

net participation. Is there any emergency, priority, or formal written traffic? Please call

<insert your call sign here>"

(Pause and wait for any emergency, priority, or formal written traffic. Address as

necessary.)

"Are there checkins for the Tri-State Two-Meter A.R.E.S. net? Please call <insert

your call sign here>."

(Net control station should now accept check ins from all amateur radio stations.)

(After accepting checkins, the net control station should acknowledge (repeat) each

check in station call sign on the air to ensure all participants have been checked in. After

acknowledging the initial checkins, the net control station may ask for further checkins.)

After all stations have checked in…

"Now, moving on to announcements…."

(Now you may read the testing session notices, hamfests, events, etc. This information is

available on the Tri-State Amateur Radio Club Net page

(http://www.qsl.net/w0cvj )

Once reading the announcements, the net control station may ask further announcements

or checkins.

Now, the net control station may proceed with the roundtable to allow participants to

make comments. If any mobile or portable stations have checked in, the net control

station may request these stations to participate first. The net control station should call

each participating station one by one to allow each participant to make comments.

Once all stations who have checked in have made comments, net control should state.

"This is <insert your call sign her e> with the Tri-State Two-Meter A.R.E.S. Net.

Are there further checkins or comments for the net?"

The net control station should then take further check-ins and continue with the

roundtable.

After all participants have commented in the round table, the net control station may wish

to repeat the announcements.

Once all participating stations have made comments in the roundtable, and no further net

traffic is requested, the net control station may secure the net.

"This is <insert your call sign her e> closing the Tri-State Two-Meter A.R.E.S. net

and returning the W0CVJ repeater to normal amateur radio operation."