Director of Emergency Communications

Steven Moss, KB4FKN

Following is a guide in calling the net on 146.88 MHz on Tuesday nights. For the purposes of this example, we will assume the person calling the net is named John Doe and his call sign is W4JDOE.

Calling the Jefferson County Emergency Net into session. This is W4JDOE and my name is John Doe. I will be the net control station for this evening. This net meets every Tuesday evening at 9:00 P.M. and is a service of the Birmingham Amateur Radio Club. This net is designed to train amateur radio operators in handling emergency communications when needed. You do not have to be a member of BARC to participate and I invite all properly licensed radio operators to check in. Any topic of interest to amateur operators is welcomed on this net .

The Jefferson County Emergency Net is affiliated with the ARRL National Traffic System. N.T.S. Messages may be entered on this net.

This is W4JDOE do we have any stations with emergency or priority traffic. (pause 5 seconds)

This is W4JDOE do we have any formal written traffic. (pause 5 seconds)

This is W4JDOE do we have any official bulletins.

This is a formal net. Please let me know if you must leave the net early. When your prefix is called, please give your name and callsign saying your suffix phonetically using standard phonetics. If you have any announcements or swapshop items, please indicate this when checking in and have this material ready when called for. I will now begin checkins with prefix beginning with;

K4, KA4, KB4, KC4, KD4, KE4, KF4, KG4, ANY ... K CALL
ANY W CALL
ANY A CALL
ANY N CALL
ANY CALL ANY PREFIX


Take announcements.
Take swap shop.
Take bulletins
Ask for late checkins.

Is there anything that this Net can do for anyone before we close ?

The Birmingham Amateur Radio Club meets on the first and third Thursday at 7:30 P.M. at The Hoover Community Education Center located in the Bluff Park area. For directions, go to W4CUE.COM and click on Meetings link.

If you would like to participate in the Jefferson County Emergency Net as net control, or have any comments regarding this net, please contact the net manager, Steven Moss , KB4FKN at P.O. BOX 603 Birmingham Al 35201 or visit the clubs web site at W4CUE.COM This is W4JDOE closing the net and returning the repeater to regular use.