Madison County ARES Net Training Preamble
"Attention all stations. This is station ___________. My name is ________ and I am located in _______, Alabama. I will be your net control station for this training session of the Madison County Emergency Net. THIS IS A TRAINING SESSION. This net serves to support the public safety of Madison County and its residents. The net would be activated during emergency situations at the request of county agencies in response to severe weather, or other civil disaster situations."
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"We invite all amateur operators to check in with us, and also invite you to check in at future net sessions. We meet every Thursday evening at 7:30 PM on this repeater. Should we have an actual emergency situation, this net would then be activated as the Madison County Emergency Net. However for tonight, this is a training session.
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"This session will begin with a round of check-ins, followed by news and announcements of interest for the net. We wish to thank the NARA for the use of the 146.940 repeater, and to all non-participating stations for their patience during this training session. In the event of a failure of this repeater, net operations will transfer to the 147.180 repeater."
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"This training session will be conducted as a directed net. Stations may not call other stations without the consent of the net control station. We welcome check-ins to the net, either singularly or in groups, and they will be taken in the order of alphabetic call sign suffix, beginning with the A- Alpha Suffixes, and continuing through the Z - Zulu suffixes. Net Control will confirm your call sign, name, and location before proceeding to the next group of check-ins. When you check in, please inform Net Control of any news, announcements or items of interest you have for the net. Are there any stations with EMERGENCY traffic at this time?
"This is station (________), acting Net control."
"When checking in, speak slowly and distinctly and please give your complete callsign, first name, location, and whether or not you have any traffic for the net." Announcements will be given after the roll call. If you miss your spot during check-ins, please stand by until the end of the roll call, and we will give you another chance to check in.
We will now begin taking check-ins to the net. Are there any check-ins from stations with call sign suffixes beginning with the letters A - Alpha through E- Echo?
Are there any corrections?
"This is station (___________), acting Net control." Do we have any other stations whose suffix begins with letters A through E?
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Moving along, do we have any check-ins from stations with call sign suffixes beginning
with the letter F - Foxtrot through J – Juliet? Please call now.
Do we have any other stations whose suffix begins with letters F through J?
"This is station (_______), acting Net control."
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"Moving down the list, are there any check ins from stations with call sign suffixes beginning with the letters K - Kilo through O - Oscar.?"
"This is station (______________), acting Net control."
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“Do we have any check-ins from stations with call sign suffixes beginning with
the letters P - Papa through T – Tango?"
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"This is station (___________), acting Net control."
"Are there any check ins from any stations with call sign suffixes
beginning with the letters U - Uniform through Z – Zulu?"
"This is station (___________), acting Net control."
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This completes the roll call. At this time, we will take late check-ins to the net. This is station (__________) with the Madison County Emergency Training Net. Do we have any late check-ins, any call sign? Please call now.
The following stations have announcements: (read list)
“Station _______ please go ahead with your announcement.”
“Thank you _________ for that announcement.”
Does any station have a question or comment on that announcement?
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(repeat until all announcements, news and traffic are passed)
"This is station (_______), acting Net control."
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Are there any other stations with announcements or news items for the net?
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Station ______ please go ahead your announcement.
Does any station have a question or comment on that announcement?
(repeat till all announcements are made)
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"This is station (________), acting Net control of the Madison County Emergency Training Net."
(Establish who will be liaison to the SKYWARN net to report the Madison County Net check ins.)
“At this time, I will ask for a volunteer to take our total check-ins to the SKYWARN Net. Do I have a volunteer?”
(Establish who will be the Net Control Station for the next Training session.)
"This is station (_______), acting Net control."
Do we have any more late check ins to the net? Anyone? Anywhere?
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All stations, thank you for participating in this training session. We are glad to have you join us. The next training session will be next Thursday at 7:30 PM on this repeater. (give date of the next Thursday training exercise).
Does anyone have any further business for the net before we close?
This concludes this session of the Madison County Emergency Training Net. The repeater will now be returned to normal service. This is station _______ saying “73” and good night.
- END OF NET -[2001 Revised Training Preamble]