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	BOCA RATON AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION Palm Beach County, Florida

CLUB LINKS

In the following script, instructions are generally in italic. Bold is used for emphasis. Plain text is a suggestion regarding what you should say.

Open the net with callsign and announcement.

Listen to insure that there are no emergencies blocking the use of the repeater. If not, please proceed.

Good evening this is _____________, net control station for the Boca Raton Amateur Radio Assn Monday night net. This net meets every Monday evening at 7:30 PM local time on the BRARA 2M repeater 145.29MHZ. There is no CTCSS tone. All amateurs are invited to participate in this net. This is a directed net. Please ask net control permission before calling a station other than net control.

Check for emergency or priority traffic

My first standby tonight is for stations with emergency or priority traffic.
Please call now.

Announce the agenda after handling any emergency traffic.

The agenda for tonight's net is as follows.

A round of check ins
Announcements from any club officers
Announcements of local ham radio activities
Announcements of other ham radio activities which may be of interest to members of BRARA
A round of check-ins
The swap shop (Optional, you may decide to combine this with the comments.)
Comments from the participants, perhaps in some order, perhaps not.

Call for check ins

I'll now stand by for check-ins. Please give your callsign slowly and tell me your name so I can write it down on my log. Remember to listen before you call to reduce the number of doubles. Please remember the FCC rules for station identification through out the net. Please call net control.

ID your station.

This is ______ net control station for the Boca Raton ARA Monday night net.

Announcements from club officers

Are there any of the club officers on frequency with announcements?

Announcements of local ham radio activities

Are there any stations on frequency with announcements of local activities, public service events, VE sessions, swaps, special meetings or other local activities that might be of interest to the membership?

Special directions for net control: Add any information that you may know that is not mentioned by other participants.

Other announcements

Special directions for net control: Check for FCC announcements regarding special frequency allocations to emergency situations (like hurricanes). You may fill this space with news or other announcements from ARRL, W5YI, Boca Raton Fire Rescue, Boca Raton Police, AMSAT, TAPR, etc at your discretion. Next I'll stand by for any other amateur radio related announcements.

ID your station and call for more check ins.

This is ________ net control station for the Boca Raton ARA Monday night net. At this time I'll stand by for any stations who would like to check into the BRARA net.

The swap shop

At this time I'd like to call for any stations that have an item of amateur radio related equipment that they'd like to sell, swap or an item that they want. Please remember that the item must be amateur radio related, and it must be yours. Please provide a brief description of the item, as not all of the listeners may be familiar with the make and model that you are trying to sell or acquire. Don't forget to mention your phone number. Dickering for a price is not allowed on this net, but you may state an asking price. Please call net control now.

Close the swap shop.

Special directions for net control: If anything was listed you may summarize the items listed.

And that concludes our swap shop.

Comments from the participants.

Special directions for net control: Don't forget FCC requirements to ID your station during this segment.

Next I'll call for a round of comments from the net participants. ID your station. Have people call in. If slow, they can call, get recognized and then comment, if busy, you might decide to have them call in and then call them back when it is their turn to comment.

Final Standby

This is ______________ net control for the Boca Raton ARA Monday night net. This is the last call for check-ins or other business. Before closing this net I'll standby for any check-ins or other business for this
net.

Stand by one last time.

Close the net.

This is ____________ closing the Boca Raton ARA Monday night net. I'd like to thank all who participated in tonight's net and I look forward to hearing from you next Monday night. (At this point, net control, at their option, may inform participants of other upcoming nets, such as the wednesday FAU net or the Thursday "Friends" net. This frequency is now available for normal amateur use. Good night.

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