5 MINUTES BEFORE NET:
This is {your callsign}. The Durham County ARES net will begin in 5
minutes on this repeater. If you need to make a call, please do so now.
AT 10:00:
Calling the Durham County ARES net, calling the Durham County ARES net.
Brief pause (release mike button at each pause to avoid timing out the
repeater)
This net meets each Sunday at 09:00 pm on the WR4AGC 145.45 MHz repeater,
through the courtesy of the Durham FM Association. All amateurs are
welcome to use this open repeater when it is not occupied by a scheduled
net.
Brief pause
This is a directed net and is part of the ARRL field organization. The
purpose of this net is to provide communications during emergencies and
to provide training in all aspects of net operations. All Radio Amateurs
are invited to participate. When checking in give the net control's call
sign, pause and listen briefly to avoid doubling, and then give your call
sign, your name and your location.
Any stations having emergency, priority or time-valued traffic, please
call {your callsign} now.
If there is any traffic, allow traffic to pass and then resume the rest
of the net when control is returned to you.
Any stations with net bulletins or announcements, please call {your
callsign}.
If any, acknowledge all the stations and then have them give their
announcements in the order in which they checked in.
Any THEN or NTS Leason Station, please call {your callsign}.
If any, acknowledge all the stations and then have them give their
traffic in the order in which they checked in.
We will now accept check-ins by the first letter of your call sign
suffix.
Any stations with call sign suffixes Alpha through Golf, please call
{your callsign}.
Log in and acknowledge stations.
Any stations with call sign suffixes Hotel through November, please call
{your callsign}.
Log in and acknowledge stations.
Any stations with call sign suffixes Oscar through Tango, please call
{your callsign}.
Log in and acknowledge stations.
Any stations with call sign suffixes Uniform through Zulu, please call
{your callsign}.
Log in and acknowledge stations.
Last call for check-ins: any stations, call sign suffixes Alpha through
Zulu, please call {your callsign}.
Log in and acknowledge stations.
If there were no checkins, or all checkins also checked out, go to
CONCLUSION.
Thanks, everyone, for checking in today. We'll move to the ragchew
portion of the net now.
If you have anything to say, go first.
For each station on the list that did not check out: {callsign}, you're
next on the list. Please go ahead.
After everyone on the list has finished:
Final call for late check-ins: any stations, call sign suffixes Alpha
through Zulu, please call {your callsign}.
Log in and acknowledge all stations.
If there were any late checkins, for each station on the list that did
not check out: {callsign}, please go ahead.
CONCLUSION:
This concludes the Durham County ARES Net. Our thanks to the Durham FM
Association for its courtesy in allowing the use of the WR4AGC 145.45
repeater. Also our thanks to all the operators who checked in. This is
{your callsign}, returning the WR4AGC repeater to normal amateur use.
Send a net report to John KB4WGA within a few days after you have called
the net. Include in this report the date of the net, number of checkins,
count of traffic listed traffic passed, and the total time of the net.You
may send the report via radio or e-mail to dnc-ares@yahoogroups.com