FLARC MONDAY NIGHT “Snow Bird” NET

FLARC MONDAY NIGHT “Snow Bird” NET
S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure)

Below is a structure to follow while conducting the Monday night “Snowbirds” Net or whatever else you would like to call it. [ Monday evenings at 20:00 ET (8:00 p.m.) on the Fair Lawn ARC 2-meter repeater. ]

The club call, W2NPT shall be used in conjunction with the net control operator’s call sign as outlined below, and permission is hereby granted by the license trustee (W2IP) for the purposes of operating the net.

1. Is the frequency in use ?
2. <Pause> [drop carrier, let repeater reset]
3. Good Evening, this is W2NPT, the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club “Snowbird” net which operates on this frequency of 145.47 MHz , minus 600 Megahertz for transmit, with a PL tone of 167.9 Hz Monday nights starting at 8:00 P:M. Your net control operator is <your name> <your call sign>
4. <Pause> [drop carrier, let repeater reset]
5. If anyone participating or listening has Emergency traffic, please say “BREAK” at any time during this net.
6. <Pause> [drop carrier, let repeater reset]
7. Upon checking in whether via Echolink, Mobile or fixed station, please state your call sign, name and location.
8. <Pause> [drop carrier, let repeater reset]
9. We will now take check ins — any mobile units, please come now.
10. <take check ins from mobiles>
11. We will now take check ins from Echolink Users only, please come now.
12. // It may take up to ten seconds for an Echolink station to respond back, due to latency within the internet — allow sufficient time for these check-ins //
13. <take check ins from Echolink users>
14. Any other stations wishing to check in, please come now.
15. <take check ins from remaining stations.>
16. // Follow order of first round check ins, starting with Mobiles, then Echolink, then all others. //
17. We have now gone through our first round, is there anyone wishing to check in, please come now.
18. <Acknowledge new check ins, let them say their piece>
19. <Start second round of comments, in the order the stations checked in>
20. We have now gone through round two, do we have any other check ins before I start the “73” round?
21. <take any remaining check ins>
22. I would like to thank everyone for checking in tonight <state any announcements or upcoming events>
23. <start the 73 [final] round>
24. <ending the net> Does anyone have any comments for the group before I close the Net, please come now.
25. <address any comments>
26. This is W2NPT, the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club, net control operator <your call sign>, closing the snowbird net, turning the repeater back to normal use.

 

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