Emergency Amateur Radio Club Net Script (2/14/2006)

 

This is ____ calling the Emergency Amateur Radio Club net.  My name is ____, and I will be your net control station for this evening.  This net meets each night at 1930W on this frequency, (except ____).  The RACES net meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.

 

The purpose of this net is to familiarize and train radio amateurs in general net operations and for public service and emergency net settings.

 

All stations are invited to participate in these net sessions.  We especially welcome our newly licensed hams, those visiting us from the mainland or abroad, and our friends on the neighbor islands.

 

This is a directed net, and all traffic should pass through net control.  Please check-in using standard ITU phonetics, after which time you may identify your station using non-phonetics, such as _____ (your call sign with no phonetics)

 

Stations with emergency, priority, or time-sensitive traffic may break in at any time.

 

Net control has ____ announcements, but we will take check-ins [individually / by group] first.

 

[NCS Option: For individual check-ins -- acknowledge each station as they check-in one at a time]

[NCS Option/Recommendation: Acknowledge stations using non-phonetics to speed things up.]

 

Net control is now standing by for mobile stations. Please call.

 

[Net copies Call 1, Call 2, etc.] or acknowledge individually if using the NCS Option above.

 

[Go through the mobile list one at a time asking for comments.  Once this is done, proceed as a normal net session, taking all check-ins by each group (traffic, announcements, weather, newly-licensed, visitors, portables, and all others) first, then asking for comments.]

 

Net Control is now standing by for stations with traffic, announcements, or weather.

 

[Net copies Call 1, Call 2, etc.", then…] or acknowledge individually if using the NCS Option above.

 

Net control is now standing by for newly licensed or visiting stations. Please call with your call sign and name.

 

[Net copies Call 1, Call 2, etc.]. or acknowledge individually if using the NCS Option above.

Please welcome visiting stations to Hawaii!

 

Net control is now standing by for portable stations. Please call.

 

[Net copies Call 1, Call 2, etc.] or acknowledge individually if using the NCS Option above.

 

Net control is now standing by for all other stations. Please call.

 

[Net copies Call 1, Call 2, Call 3, etc.] or acknowledge individually if using the NCS Option above.

 

Are there any other check-ins to the EARC net, this is ______.

 

[Acknowledge all other stations].

 

Now, take each station individually and ask if they’d like to make a comment about the net topic. At ten-minute intervals, ask:

 

Are there any additional late check-ins or final comments, this is ______ Net Control.

 

(If there are no more check-ins, close the net.)

 

With no more check-ins, this is Net Control closing the EARC Net. We would like to thank all stations for checking-in and participating this evening. Please join us tomorrow night for another EARC Net Session with (name/call of the tomorrow’s NCS).

 

I will now return the repeaters back to normal operations. Until next time, Aloha and 73. (Callsign).