WA9RDF Sunday Night Net Script (KB9SKI, 8/2003)

CQ Net, CQ Net, CQ Net. This is the WA9RDF repeater weekly net, which meets every Sunday night on this frequency with a 151.4 PL tone at seven PM Eastern Standard Time. Net participation is open to all Amateur Radio operators and other interested parties. We'd love to hear from you. If you don't have the gear and the license to check in over the air, please check in via electronic mail to K-B-9-S-K-I at A-R-R-L dot net.

This is a directed net. Please direct all your input and comments to Net Control. Your Net Control this evening is name, callsign. I will now pause for any emergency or priority traffic.

[pause. Wing it if there is emergency or priority traffic.]

I am now prepared for any mobile or short time checkins. [pause and record checkins]

Thank you. I have the following checkins: xxxxx, xxxxx, ...

[For each traffic announced by a checkin:] xxxxx, go ahead with your traffic. [pause]

xxxxx, thank you. Are there any additional questions or comments on that traffic?

[pause. Repeat until all comments and traffic are complete]

Are there any more mobile or short time checkins?

[pause and repeat until there are no more mobile/short time checkins.]

Thank you, all the mobile and short time checkins. This is Net Control, xxxxx. I am now prepared for regular checkins. Are there any checkins with call sign suffixes beginning Alpha through Mike?

[pause and take checkins as described above for mobile/short-time until exhausted.]

Are there any checkins with call sign suffixes beginning Alpha through Zulu?

[pause and take checkins as described above for mobile/short-time until exhausted.]

Are there any more checkins, any callsign at all, Alpha through Zulu, or especially, newcomers to the net? [pause and take checkins as described above for mobile/short-time until exhausted.]

Thank you for all the checkins. Again, anyone listening who cannot transmit but still wishes to checkin may do so by electronic mail to the address K-B-9-S-K-I at A-R-R-L dot net. This is Net Control, xxxxx.

[now take traffic and follow-on comments dealing with the following general topics:]

Does anyone have any official or other traffic relating to the Mid State Amateur Radio Club?

Does anyone have any RACES traffic?

Does anyone have any ARES traffic?

Does anyone have any formal traffic to deliver or originate via the National Traffic System?

Does anyone have any other traffic or comments they would like to make at this time?

[if there is a Newsline or other audio clip to play] For your listening information, tonight I have Amateur Radio Newsline number xxxx. The segment has a run time of xx minutes, so expect probably x identification breaks. This is Net Control, xxxxx. Please stand by for Amateur Radio Newsline.

[play each segment. At the ID break:] This is Net Control, xxxxx. Please stand by for more Amateur Radio Newsline.

[after the final segment] This is Net Control, xxxxx. Does anyone have any additional information or comments on any of the topics mentioned by Newsline? [pause and moderate discussion, if any]

[Announce email checkins, if any]

Are there any late checkins? [pause and take checkins]

Are there any late announcements? [pause and take announcements and follow-on comments]

Does anyone have any amateur radio-related items they would like to buy, sell, or trade? [pause and take announcements and follow-on comments]

Thank you all. That concludes the business portion of this net. This has been the weekly WA9RDF local net, which meets every Sunday night at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time and goes until we run out of formal business. The WA9RDF repeater is operated by the Mid State Amateur Radio Club, whose web site is www.midstatehams.org (midstatehams is all one word, no underscores). The club meets on the third Saturday of each month at 8 in the morning in the basement conference room in the Johnson County Emergency Operations Center, which is at the Johnson County Law Enforcement Facility in Franklin. Informal talk-in will be on this repeater. You do not need to be a club member to attend meetings and participate; newcomers are very welcome. A Volunteer Examiner team conducts license testing sessions after each meeting, except in December. If you want to earn your amateur radio license, or upgrade to a higher license class, show up to the meeting, or later at nine, nine-thirty. The WA9RDF repeater is the official Skywarn repeater for Johnson County; during severe weather (or other emergencies), listen here first. If this repeater is not functioning, the 145.11 repeater will be the backup.

Thanks again to the xx people who checked in tonight. The net is now over at xx:xx PM, and I will return the WA9RDF repeater to its normal use. 73, folks, and have a good week. This is Net Control, xxxxx, now clear.