Below, you will find a PDF of the script for our Tuesday night service net. Feel free to download it and read along with the net as a way to practice for being Net Control. You can also access the other documents used to do the weekly net here.
Signing up for Net Control is a great way to practice your radio communication skills! Please contact the club president if you’re interested in signing up or would like a mentor.
Helpful hints:
- Be prepared. Download the script and other documents well ahead of time.
- Look up next week’s net control operator and ARNewsline transmitter in the weekly blog or the “SCRA Net NC+ARN Schedule” file and write it down.
- (Bold text in parentheses) = instructions to you and should NOT be read on the air.
- Important: Remember to identify your station every ten (10) minutes.
- Un-key after each paragraph to prevent timing out the repeater and allow for emergency break-ins.
| 5 min before net | Good evening, this is (Name & Call Sign) _________________________________ net control station for tonight’s SCRA service net. The net will begin in approximately 5 minutes. May I please have a radio check? Is one of the SCRA Amateur Radio Newsline Transmission crew ready to transmit tonight? (Acknowledge any response, check them in, and note their first name and call sign on page 2.) |
| 1 | Calling all radio amateurs, calling all radio amateurs! This is (Name & Call Sign) ______________________ net control station for tonight’s SCRA service net. This net is sponsored by the Sonoma County Radio Amateurs, Inc. and Meets on this frequency every Tuesday at 7 PM. Emergency traffic always has priority over all other communications. Any station having emergency traffic will contact net control. Is there any emergency traffic at this time? YES/ NO |
| 2 | SCRA membership is open to anyone interested in amateur radio. For further information, send an e-mail to k6son@arrl.net or visit the SCRA website at sonomacountyradioamateurs.com. |
| 3 | The club Membership meeting is held at 7:00 PM on the first Wednesday of each month at the Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, located at 2050 Yulupa Avenue, in Santa Rosa. Arrive early at 6:30 PM for social time and light refreshment. You may also attend the meeting via Zoom if you can’t attend in person. |
| 4 | The purpose of this net is to provide information of interest to all radio amateurs. If you have traffic for the net, please come now and be acknowledged. |
| 5 | (Queue the traffic, then ask each to give their traffic in order. Check-in all those who gave traffic.) |
| 6 | Is there any more traffic for the net? YES/NO |
| 7 | This is (Name & Call Sign) ______________________ net control station for tonight’s SCRA service net. All those who gave traffic have been checked in. We will now proceed with the Check-In List, which is a list of those who have checked in to this net at least twice over the last four weeks, sorted by call sign suffix. After your name and call sign has been announced, please wait to hear the repeater’s courtesy tone before you check-in by replying with your name and call sign. More member and guest check-ins will be taken after completion of the roster. (Proceed through the Check-In List and acknowledge each check-in or if no response with “Nothing heard.”) (Remember to identify your station every 10 minutes!) |
| 8 | That concludes the Check-In List. This is (Name & Call Sign) ______________________ net control station for tonight’s SCRA service net. I will now take impromptu member and guest check-ins. Please wait to hear the repeater’s courtesy tone before you check-in with your name and call sign. Come now and be acknowledged. (Acknowledge each check-in and if needed, ask for any corrections.) |
| 9 | Are there any more check-ins for the net at this time? YES/NO |
| 10 | We will now move on to the Amateur Radio Newsline. I will take more check-ins after Newsline. |
| 11 | Is (Name & Call Sign) ______________________ ready to transmit Newsline? (If no one had responded 5-min before the net, ask the following question one more time.) Is one of the SCRA Amateur Radio Newsline Transmission crew ready to transmit at this time? Yes (go to line 12) – No (go to line 15) |
| 12 | Thank you, (Name)____________. I now turn the net over to (Call Sign)____________. This is ____________________. (Amateur Radio Newsline plays for about 20 minutes.) |
| 13 | Thank you, (Name & Call Sign) _______________________. That was great! This is (Name & Call Sign) ____________________ net control station for tonight’s SCRA service net. |
| 14 | I will now take more member and guest check-ins. Please wait to hear the repeater’s courtesy tone before you check-in with your first name and call sign. Come now and be acknowledged. (Acknowledge each check-in and if needed, ask for any corrections.) |
| 15 | Are there any more check-ins for the net this evening? YES/NO |
| 16 | The total number of check-ins for tonight was _________. |
| 17 | Are there any other communications or traffic for the net this evening? |
| 18 | (Queue the traffic, then ask each to give their traffic in order.) |
| 19 | Is there any more traffic for the net? YES/NO |
| 20 | This is (Name & Call Sign) ______________________ net control station for tonight’s SCRA service net. Now it’s time to bring this net to a close. |
| 21a | The net control operator scheduled for next week is (Name & Call Sign) ____________________________ and the Amateur Radio Newsline transmitter is ____________________________. (See NC & ARN schedule at the bottom of the Net email.) |
| 21b | (Use this version only on the day before the Membership meeting.) The net control operator for next week’s net will be determined at tomorrow night’s membership meeting. If you are interested in being net control operator for this net, please attend the meeting to volunteer. |
| 23 | Thank you all for participating in the SCRA Tuesday night service net. I will now end this net and return the repeater back to normal operation. This is (Name & Call Sign) ______________________ with a 73 to all. |