Remember the net attempts to be a friendly, informative activity welcoming of all hams who would like to participate.
Should it be necessary, feel free to make use of relay stations, for example, when someone is inadvertently transmitting on the repeater output and cannot be heard by the NCS.
Thank you for volunteering to run the ECTN. We hope your experience here will be enjoyable and enriching.
If possible, make a friendly announcement 3 to 5 minutes before the net is scheduled to begin inviting all amateurs to check into ECTN, which will begin in about (_) minutes.
Advise that anyone needing to make a call on the frequency before the net begins should go ahead and do so.
Conduct the net using the format and guidelines below. If needed, feel free to change a word or two to suit your particular style, being certain not to change the context or meaning.
Calling the Eastern Connecticut Traffic Net. Your Net Control Station is: (Your callsign)
My name is: (______________) and I am located in: (____________).
Is there any station holding Emergency or priority traffic?
(pause for five seconds)
The Eastern CT Traffic Net is part of the ARRL National Traffic System and is a directed net.
Please do not break this net unless you have Emergency or Priority Traffic.
This is also a training net.
Please inform Net Control if you have to leave the net before it is secured as there may be formal or informal traffic coming your way.
Calling the Eastern Connecticut Traffic Net, Calling the Eastern Connecticut Traffic Net.
Looking first for Stations from Echo-Link.
Please indicate if you have traffic and the destination of your traffic.
Echo-link stations only, please call now.
(allow squelch tail to drop and the carrier to disappear otherwise Echo Link stations will be unable to transmit).
Calling the Eastern Connecticut Traffic Net
Now looking for stations holding formal traffic, announcements, or liaisons to other nets, please check in now, giving your call sign phonetically.
(Ask stations holding traffic to indicate the destination of those messages)
Calling the Eastern Connecticut Traffic Net, now looking for stations with or without traffic.
The net currently holds the following traffic: ________. Are there any stations who can handle this traffic? If so, please call now.
After formal NTS traffic and announcements have been handled, invite informal comments.
Call on stations in the order in which they checked in, giving precedence to stations who are mobile or have indicated they are on short time.
This has been a regular session of The Eastern Connecticut Traffic Net. Thanks to everyone who checked in,
those who made themselves available to handle traffic, and those who stood by while the net was in session.
We thank SECARS, the South Eastern CT Amateur Radio Society, for use of the N1NW repeater.
This Net meets every evening at 2100 hours Eastern Time on this repeater.
Our back-up repeater is the W1DX repeater in Salem, CT, on 147.060.
If repeaters become unavailable, the net will convene on 146.450 MHz simplex.
For more information about the net, visit eastern ct traffic dot net, or call, 860 934-0025.
I’m returning this frequency to regular amateur use at (_________) local.
Good evening and 73, This is (_________) clear.