| Last Updated | 3/20/2008 |
| Current Version | http://www.specsnet.org/netscript.html |
| SPECS Net Time | 8:00 PM (20:00) local time every Monday evening |
| SPECS Net Frequency | 145.270 – 100Hz tone |
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SPECS Monday Night Net Script
| Last Updated | 3/20/2008 |
| Current Version | http://www.specsnet.org/netscript.html |
| SPECS Net Time | 8:00 PM (20:00) local time every Monday evening |
| SPECS Net Frequency | 145.270 – 100Hz tone |
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Before Net
Please obtain the current version of the script from the web site location given above as updates occur frequently
· Make sure you have a reliable power source for your radio
· Obtain a radio check to be sure that you can reach the repeater with a good signal
· Have writing pad & pencils handy to note check-ins, announcements, etc.
· Remember to pause a moment, after you begin to transmit and before you begin to speak, to allow the repeater (and the net participants' radios) enough time to de-squelch.
· Remember that the repeater has a 120 second timeout timer (the drop it notations in the script are provided to help you avoid the timer during the long passages)
· Net control advisories appear in the left column while script text appears on the right. Instructions for the net control operator are also italicized. Don't read the italicized text over the air.
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Calling the SPECS net, calling the SPECS net. This is the Southern Peninsula Emergency Communications System weekly net. This is a directed net of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. Stations with emergency traffic may break in at any time. This is <…your call sign…> net control. My name is <…your name…> from <…your city…> ARES. The purpose of the net is to train and maintain a crew of Amateur Radio operators who are ready to furnish communication services in a time of need. |
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SPECS operates the W6ASH repeaters at 145.270, 224.140, and 440.800 MHz all using 100 Hz tone. The 224.14 and the 440.8 MHz repeaters are normally linked. New listeners may obtain information about SPECS from our website at www.specsnet.org. |
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RECOGNITION OF LEAGUE & DISTRICT OFFICIALS ARRL SM: N2RHV Bill
ADECs by call suffix: Record and acknowledge calls. Let officials give announcements immediately if any. |
Are there any elected League officials, District Emergency Coordinators or assistant DECs present to be recognized? |
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RECOGNITION OF
SPECS BOARD
President: KG6LAD Dru
Record and acknowledge. Allow any board members to give any announcements immediately. |
Are there any representatives from the SPECS board present to be recognized? | ||||||||||||||||
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CONTACT WITH OFFICIALS
Record stations with questions if any and call in order. Allow officials to respond briefly |
Are there any questions for league officials or the SPECS board? Please give callsigns only at this time. | ||||||||||||||||
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EC & AEC CHECK-IN
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We will now take check-ins for Emergency Coordinators and Assistant Emergency Coordinators by city. When your city is called, please state your callsign, EC or AEC, and, if you have an announcement, so indicate.
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Call each area in the following table in order. Acknowledge stations that check-in and keep track of announcements, but
hold them for the announcement
section later
in the net.
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Record and acknowledge. |
Are there any ECs or AECs from other areas not listed, or stations that I missed?
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BUSINESS OF
THE NET Record and acknowledge stations with announcements. Add them to the list of announcements from ECs & AECs. Call each announcement in order: Call additional announcements or business items. |
This is <…your callsign…>, net control. We will now proceed with announcements. If there are any general announcements that have not been listed yet, please give your callsign only at this time.
Are there any other announcements or business items for the net?
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NET SCHEDULING
Rotation order: Wait briefly for an acknowledgement. |
We'd like to remind <…Next City…> that it is their turn to handle net control duties next month. | ||||||||||||||||
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CONTACTS
AFTER NET
Record stations with contacts and call each in turn: Allow each called station to acknowledge.
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Is there anyone wishing to make a contact after net? Please give callsigns only at this time. When I call you, make your call and get an acknowledgement.
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check-in
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This is <…your callsign…>, net control. We will now take general check-ins through separate nets by area. All visitors interested in emergency preparedness are encouraged to check-in with the regulars in your area. I will ask the net control for each area to give their local net frequency. Once you hear the frequency for your area, please go there for your local net. If you cannot reach your local net you will have an opportunity to check in here. | ||||||||||||||||
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Call for each local net from the following table in order: Do not assume that a local net is not operating just because you did not get a check-in from the city earlier |
Local nets are encouraged to continue after taking check-ins. Please send a representative back to this main net to report your total. The main net will close as soon as all totals are received, while local nets continue. Thank you for making yourselves and your equipment available to SPECS. See you next week, same time, same frequency.
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Don't call
for check-ins
from NASA-Ames, even if an EC or AEC checked-in. NASA-Ames does
not take check-ins for the SPECS net.
Record and acknowledge individual check-ins if any. Ask each station for name and city or county and help visitors to get to the appropriate local net whenever possible.
Record local net totals as their representatives return to the net. Add up the numbers and report the total for those who wish to report back to their local net. Please report these numbers by email after the net as directed at the end of the script. |
We invite all visitors to SPECS interested in emergency preparedness to check-in at this time. We also welcome check-ins from anyone who cannot reach their local net. Anyone wishing to check-in, please give callsign only now.
This is <…your call sign…>, net control, standing by for local net check-in totals or individual check-in.
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NET CLOSURE
Wait until all local nets have reported. |
This concludes this meeting of the Southern Peninsula Emergency Communications System main net. More information is available on our web site at www.specsnet.org. The main SPECS net is officially closed and these frequencies returned to normal use. This is <…your callsign…> |
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Please record the check-in numbers reported from each local net and count the county officials who checked-in. Please send a report containing the breakdown of these numbers by email to netreport@specsnet.org. If you do not have email capability, please arrange for someone else on the net to send the message. This report does not have to be complicated. County officials just want a rough tally of check-in activity for comparisons over time.
Thank you for giving of your time, equipment, and ability to serve as net control. Your service makes a significant contribution to SPECS and to ARES/RACES emergency preparedness in the county.
Corrections to the script are most welcome and should be sent by email to the address given at the top.
Thank you!