BVARC Monday night script.

 

QST QST.  This, is (fill in your name and call sign), Net control operator for this evenings edition of the Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club public service net for the Houston area. This net meets every Monday evening at 8pm local time to discuss topics related to amateur radio and the club.  This is a directed net and all calls should go through net control. The repeater tone is 123.0 (if 145.45 then no tone).

The agenda for tonight's net will be Check-in’s, announcements, sell/swap or trade, area hamfest, followed by the ARRL audio news.

I will now take check in’s from  mobile stations only.  Please give your call sign slowly and signify if you have any traffic for tonight’s net and the type of traffic.

Mobile stations only please check in now.

(Write down the call signs, and then announce the ones you have so far. Continue until no other mobile checkins are heard. Mark those which have traffic.)

Mobile stations with traffic.  Call sign, please give your name and proceed with your traffic.

Mobile stations without traffic.   Call sign,  glad you could join us.  Do you have anything for the net?

(Give all the mobile stations a chance to talk by recognizing their station.  Now proceed to all stations.)

All other stations please check in now.  And again, please give your call sign slowly and signify if you have any traffic for tonight’s net and the type of traffic.

 

(Write down the call signs, then announce the ones you have so far. Continue until no other checkins are heard. Mark those which have traffic.)

Now proceeding with stations that had identified with announcements. (This does not include sell, swap or trade)

Call sign, please give your name and proceed with your announcement.

(Call each station individually until all stations with announcements are recognized.)

 

This is your call sign net control station for the BVARC public service net with the following announcements.

(Insert and Proceed with net control announcements. Include at least the following information in each net.)

 

The BVARC general meeting is 7:30 pm on the second Thursday of each month at the Sugar Land community center on Matlage Way in Sugar Land Texas. The community center is across the street from the Sugar Land post office south of the sugar mill on Hwy 90. We want to encourage anyone interested in ham radio to attend where we usually have presentations related to ham radio and you can meet our members.

The month general meeting, which will be date and will a selection of short technical discussions and functional applications on antennas .

            (Add anything else such as the next meeting topic or something else you think might encourage someone to attend.)

Each month, on the Second Tuesday, BVARC 'Second Tuesday' Amateur Radio License Examination Session are held for license examination and/or upgrade purposes. The current test fee is $15.00 -- we will take cash or check - check(s) made payable to ARRL-VEC.  A photo ID is now required. If a photo ID is unavailable, please check the VEC information on the BVARC web site. Pre-registration is encouraged; walk-ins will be accommodated.
 Email: John Moore, KK5NU at jwm@hal-pc.org     Or you can call him at 713-481-4107

Our present exam session site is:

Houston Community College,
Scarcella Technology Center
10141 Cash Road
Stafford, TX

Check in about 6:30 PM - exams start promptly at 7 PM. Parking is readily available in the rear lot -- Inquire at the 'front desk' for our room assignment. Cash Road intersects Murphy Road (FM 1092) at about the 13,500 block, between Greenbriar- Mula Road and the UPRR - US 90A crossings. Turn East on Cash Road; the community college building is on the *right* or south side of the street.

 

 

I will now standby for any additional stations to check in. Please give your call sign slowly.

 

(Record new stations. Now call each station on your list of all stations that have checked in and you have not called on previously)

Now proceeding with any traffic including sell, swap or trade. Call sign on list please give your name and any comments you have for the net.

(Proceed recognizing each station through your list of stations until you reach the last station. Be sure and recognize your station at least every 10 minutes. Standby for additional checkins as you see fit.)

 

 

Now for the ARRL Audio News.

(Start the audio news.  I download the audio news file from ARRL before hand and play it through my computer. You can record it to a tape recorder. Download is available the Friday night before the net on http://www.arrl.org/audionewsI. Simply play back the tape and set my radio to VOX and place the microphone on the tape player speaker or have your computer connected directly to your radio. You can do whatever you need. You could also have someone else handle this part of the net and share the responsibility. You will have to pause at the appropriate time about half way to identify your station.)

 

 

(When time to identify) This is your call sign  with the Brazos Valley Amateur Radio club public service net. (Continue the audio news until finished.)

This is your call sign,  net control operator for the BVARC Monday night net,  I will now standby for any late checkins for tonight's net. (Take checkins and read them back until everyone has checked in. )

Call sign,  please give your name and any comments you have for the net.

 

With no additional traffic or comments to the net, this is your name and call sign, Net control operator for this evening’s edition of the Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club public service net. There were ________checkins for tonight's net.

 

 

(If on 146.88) I would like to thank the Houston Repeater Club for the use of this repeater for the Public Service Net each Monday night at 8:00 pm local time. I also want to thank everyone who has checked in for tonight's net. I am now returning the use of the WR5AAA repeater and all linked repeaters back to normal amateur radio use. This is     Your Call Sign     73.
 
(If on 145.450) I would like to thank the trustees for the use of the WB5RDK 145.45 repeater for the Public Service Net each Monday night at 8:00 pm local time. I also want to thank everyone who has checked in for tonight's net. I am now returning the use of this repeater and all linked repeaters back to normal amateur radio use. This is     Your Call Sign     73.
 
(If on 145.47)  I would like to thank the board of the MERA (Memorial Emergency Radio Association) repeater for the use of the W5RPT repeater for the Public Service Net each Monday night at 8PM.  I also want to thank everyone who has checked in for tonight’s net.  I am now returning the use of this repeater and all linked repeaters back to normal amateur radio use. This is     Your Call Sign     73.

 

(If on 146.94) I would like to thank Pump Fawcett for the use of the WA5CYI repeater for tonight’s Public Service Net.  I also want to thank everyone who has checked in for tonight’s net.  I am now returning the use of this repeater and all linked repeaters back to normal amateur radio use.  This is  Your Call Sign  73.