Riverland Amateur Radio Club Sunday Night Net
8:00 PM
Good evening and welcome to
the Riverland Amateur Radio Club news, information and swap net. This is (name
and call), this evening’s net control station. (you
may wish to give the time, local and/or UTC) Let’s
standby for any emergency or priority traffic.
The Riverland Amateur Radio
Club is special services club, affiliated with the American Radio Relay League.
It meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM, at the American Red
Cross,
This net is held weekly at
this time for the purpose of exchanging news and information of interest to the
amateur radio operators of the Coulee Region. Everyone is welcome to listen and
all licensed amateur radio operators are encouraged to check into the net.
After check-ins and traffic the net will have a swap portion during which net stations may announce and describe items related to amateur radio that they have for sale. This may include items a station is wanting to buy. The net will include Newsline or ARRL Audio News. ( If you wish you may add that there will be general discussion or ragchew at the end of the net)
We will now begin taking
check-ins. We will take check-ins from mobile, portable and short-time stations.
Then we will accept general check-ins. When you check-in with your call sign,
please also indicate whether you have information, traffic or an item to swap.
First, do we have any mobile, portable or short-time station? If so please call now. (acknowledge and record each check-in and repeat the request for check-ins as needed)
Now it’s time for general check-ins. Do we have any stations checking into the net whose call suffix falls from A-M, alpha-mike? Call net control now. (acknowledge and record each station and repeat the request as needed. Remember to identify at 10 minute intervals,eg. this is KB9OFK, net control station for Riverland Amateur Radio Club Sunday Night Net)
Do we have any stations checking into the net whose call suffix falls from N-Z, November –zulu? Please call now. (same procedure)
Do we have any additional check-ins anywhere in the alphabet? Please call net control now. (same check-in procedure)
Periodically as we continue the net we will call for additional check-ins. (you may wish to call at a few other logical points)
Now we will move on to traffic for the net tonight. (call those stations that indicated information, an announcement or other traffic on check-in. call for other stations with traffic. you may provide your own traffic. Repeat the information as needed)
Are there any other stations
with traffic for the net tonight? Please call now.
(remember to identify at 10 minute intervals)
Now we will move on to the
swap portion of the net. (at this point, if no station indicated swap
items, you may want to again call for any station with a swap item before you
recite the following, which is unnecessary if there are no swap items) Stations with items to swap are reminded that in order
to comply with the Federal Communications Commission guidelines and the rules
of this net, items offered for sale must be either amateur radio equipment or
equipment directly related to amateur radio. For example this may be computers
which interface with and run programs for amateur radio or generic masts and
towers used to mount antennas.
When listing items for the net please include your telephone number and your asking price. While FCC regulations and the rules of this net allow you to name an asking price, amateurs are not allowed to negotiate the sale over the air. If you are interested in any item make a telephone call to the posting station to negotiate the sale. (call each station with swap items, repeat the description, price and telephone number)
Are there any other stations
with swap items? Please call now.
(now is possibly a time to call for any other check-ins, and/or identify yourself)
Now we will have Newsline or
ARRL Audio News. You may provide either program on your own or from
another such as W0JDC) This is (your
callsign) net control station for the Riverland
Amateur Radio Club Sunday Night Net. We will continue the net with Newsline (or
ARRL Audio News) transmit for us by (callsign)
(repeat ID at breaks in the program)
(if you wish at this point, you may want to call to see if any station has any particular topic to discuss or ragchew about)
Before closing the net we
will take any last check-ins. Do we have any additional stations wishing to
check-in to the net? Please call now.
(same check-in procedure)
I will now close the net.
Please join us again at the same time next week. This is (callsign) clear of the repeater. You are free to use it for
normal operation.
73 and good evening.
Net control station, please improvise or change this script as needed, based on specific situations. I believe it has all of the components of a good net, but alterations may be a good thing Your callsign, at least once phonetically is probably a good idea.
Revision 05/31/07