Waupaca County ARES
Amateur Radio Communications
Weekly Net Preamble
Waupaca County ARES/RACES WEEKLY Net Preamble
At About 7:58 pm on the 147.390 Repeater announce that the Waupaca County ARES/Races net will begin shortly. Begin the net at 8 PM.
This Repeater will remain open for any emergency traffic. Stations checking into this net are requested to state slowly your callsign phonetically, your name, location, and whether or not you have traffic for the net. Calling the Waupaca County Amateur Radio Emergency Services Net.
Your net control station is _________, My name is _________ and I am located in ________________. This net meets each Sunday evening at 8 PM local on the 147.390 Repeater, PL 118.8. In the event of repeater failure the net will move to the 146.925 Repeater with a PL of 118.8
The purpose of this net is for the training and education of ARES/RACES matters, and information exchange. This is a directed net, all communications on the net will be under the direction of the net control station: however, emergency traffic may break the net at any time.
Is there any formal or written traffic? Please call ________ net control.
We will now stand by for short time, portable, or mobile stations, please call____ net control
We will now stand by for all stations anywhere, with or without traffic, wishing to check in to the Waupaca County ARES net, please call_______net control
Remember to take check-ins about every 10 - 15 minutes.
The practice of second go-rounds is up to the net control station, if you choose to do so, now would be the time.
After second go-rounds, is the time to let people go that have traffic for the net.
Are there any other discussion items from any of the members before we close the net?
I would like to thank everyone for checking in this evening, everyone is welcome back next week when your NCS will be______. This is ________and the Waupaca County ARES net is clear at _______ local time. The repeater is now back to normal amatuer use, 73 everyone.
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Current WI ARES/RACES HF NET MESSAGE
WISCONSIN ARES/RACES HF NET 10-18-26
Message in NTS format follows.
NR 496 R K9LGU ARL 6 FORT ATKINSON WI OCT 18
WISCONSIN ARES/RACES OPERATORS
ARL FIFTY SIX CONTINUAL ARES/RACES
TRAINING
K9LGU/STM
Prepared texts in NTS messages are shorter and consequently faster. Some are designed for relief, welfare and routine messages. Here are a few reminders about traffic that uses those ARL numbered (ready-made) messages. Of course, we should have a list of those texts handy. They're available on the ARRL website as FSD-3 message handling form (https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/FSD_3.pdf) and elsewhere on the internet.
Notice that the check of the message in the preamble includes the letters ARL as well as the number of groups in the text. The numbered text is then always spelled out by the sender with words, not in figures. It's especially important to translate that text when the message is delivered – even if it's sent to a Ham. For example, if you were delivering today's message, you would deliver the text as “Congratulations on your continual ARES/RACES training, a most worthy and deserved achievement.“