BCARES District 11 - Weekly Net (suggested script) ver. 4/08

Calling the Boulder County Amateur Radio Emergency Services Net. Calling the BCARES Monday Night Net.. This is [your call], my name is [your name], I am located in [your location], and I will be NCS for tonight’s net.

Is there any emergency or priority traffic? (Handle any traffic as necessary)

This is a directed net to provide practice in net operations and to handle announcements of interest to the BCARES members. General announcements of upcoming Amateur Radio events in this area are welcome and all stations, members or not, are invited to participate in this net.

Are there any board members with announcements for the net tonight? (Note/acknowledge calls)

Are there any stations with announcements for the net tonight? (Note/acknowledge calls and continue)
(Make adjustments as necessary - this may replace the planned question for the evening)

(As applicable) The question for this evening is __________________________________________. REPEAT… (See the suggested questions link on the net schedule page).

I will now take check-ins from board members. When checking in, please give your call in ITU phonetics, your name, location and the answer to the evening’s question. If you have a question for the net, please note this AFTER giving the requested information. BCARES board members only.

This is [your call]. I will now take checkins from all amateurs with call suffixes beginning Alpha thru Papa. The question for tonight is ___________________________________________________________.

Check-ins for the BCARES Weekly Net, suffixes Alpha thru Papa. Please call now.
(Note/acknowledge calls and continue - repeat as many times as necessary)

Checkins for the BCARES Weekly Net, suffixes Alpha thru Zulu. Please call now.
(Note/acknowledge calls and repeat until check-ins cease)

(Handle all announcements/questions)

Thank you. This is [your call] for the BCARES weekly net. Are there any late checkins, comments, questions, or other discussion, before we close the net this evening? Please call now.
(Note/acknowledge check-ins and handle any discussion(s))

This net meets here each Monday evening at 20:00 hours local, courtesy of the Rocky Mountain VHF Society and we extend our thanks for their on-going support. BCARES maintains a web page at www.bouldercountyares.org. This web page has information of interest to the BCARES community.

The Colorado Section ARES hosts two voice nets each Sunday morning. The first is at 08:00 local on a frequency of 3.810± Mhz. This is an HF frequency so the use of a horizontally polarized antenna is recommended.

The second voice net is at 08:30 hours on a frequency of 145.310 Mhz courtesy of the Colorado Connection. A 123 Hz tone is required.

The Colorado Section ARES hosts a digital net on the first and third Sunday of each month at 07:30 local on a frequency of 3.590 MHz. There is also a CW net on the second and fourth Sunday of each month at 07:30 local on a frequency of 3.570 MHz.

Thank you for participating. There were _____ check-ins tonight. Next week's NCS is scheduled to be _________________. This is [your call] closing the net for tonight. Good Evening!