The Valencia Count Amateur Radio Association holds a formal net each Wednesday on 145.430MHz (-) 100Hz tone at 8:00PM local time.<\/p>\n
Current Net Controllers are:<\/span> Net Controllers<\/strong>: Please announce the net 5 to 15 minutes before the start. Sample:<\/em> Continue here<\/em> –>The net begins at 8:00PM local time. The Wednesday night net is an open net and all licensed amateurs are welcome to join us.<\/p>\n This is [your call sign] for club station KC5OUR.<\/span><\/span>”<\/p>\n Protocol: The following is the Preamble and format for the VCARA Wednesday night net<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Good evening and welcome to the Valencia County Amateur Radio Association Wednesday night net held weekly on one of the clubs repeaters. Please check the clubs website, kc5our.com each week to see which repeater it will be held on. We hold the net every Wednesday evening starting at 8 PM local time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Your control operator tonight is [YOUR NAME & CALL]. I will be using the club call sign KC50UR for this net.<\/p>\n Before the net begins, is there anyone needing to use this repeater for emergency traffic? If so call now or break in at any time during the net.. [BREAK and listen for emergency traffic<\/em>]<\/p>\n Hearing nothing, I will begin by calling club officers and committee chairs.<\/p>\n President – John, K8JWS At this time I will call for general check-ins. We welcome all licensed amateurs, you do not have to be a club member to check in. When you check in please give your call sign, name and if you have comments for the net. Are there any hams – new hams, old hams, or mobile hams wishing to check in to the Valencia County Amateur Radio Association net, please call now. (Take all, repeat above process, then make a last call for ck-ins.<\/em>)<\/p>\n This is last call for check-ins, rechecks, comments or questions. At this time I will declare this net closed and turn the repeater back to its normal service. This is [YOUR CALL] for club station KC50UR saying 73 and good night.<\/p>\n \u2022 Record the number of check-ins and announcements made during the net.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Valencia Count Amateur Radio Association holds a formal net each Wednesday on 145.430MHz (-) 100Hz tone at 8:00PM local time. Current Net Controllers are: Ralph, NM5RC Greg, KG5OCW John, K8JWS Earl, KB5UEW Al, W5ACW Nick, KI5MFF Net Controllers: Please announce the net 5 to 15 minutes before the start. Sample: “Attention all stations, please join […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":94,"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kc5our.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRalph, NM5RC
\nGreg, KG5OCW
\nJohn, K8JWS
\nEarl, KB5UEW
\nAl, W5ACW
\nNick, KI5MFF<\/p>\n
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\n“Attention all stations, please join the Valencia County Amateur Radio Association for their Wednesday night net. The
\nnet is held weekly on one of the clubs repeaters. Please check the clubs website, kc5our.com each week to see which repeater it will be held on.
\nRead the appropriate entry, below.<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span>Tonight\u2019s net will be held on 146.700MHz. It is a negative offset and a 100 Hz PL tone is required.
\n<\/span><\/span>Tonight\u2019s net will be held on 145.430MHz. It is a negative offset and a 100 Hz PL tone is required.
\n<\/span><\/span>Tonight\u2019s net will be held on 443.425MHz. It is a positive offset and a 100 Hz PL tone is required.
\n<\/span><\/span>Tonight\u2019s net will be held on 442.700MHz. It is a positive offset and a 100 Hz PL tone is required.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nVice President – John, KE0TVT
\nSecretary – Nick, KI5MFF
\nTreasurer – Betty, N5BEL
\nPast President – Earl, KB5UEW
\nARES Chairman – Chris, W5CSG
\nNewsletter Editor – Ginger, KC5MTI
\nRepeater Chairman – Chris, W5CSG
\nSpecial Events Coordinator – Ralph, NM5RC<\/p>\n
\n(Take all check-ins until you hear no more, then go back to each check-in [in order] and engage in conversation. Casual comments are welcome – make it fun. <\/em>Then take more ck-ins<\/em>)<\/p>\n
\n(When none, close the net with:)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Give the net count information to Albert, W5ACW.<\/em><\/p>\n