KCRC 2 Meter Net Script:

(Last updated July 2023)

[Remember to identify yourself every 10 minutes]

Good evening, this is the Kings County Radio Club 2 Meter Net. Our Club callsign is KC2RC. I am [your callsign], Net Control Operator for tonight. This Net meets every Tuesday at 9 PM noted. You do NOT have to be a member to check-in to this Net!

But please consider joining!

In order to check into the Net, please use your press-to-talk button, pause for a moment, and transmit your callsign. Then release your press-to-talk button to make sure that you are NOT doubling with anyone else. Then transmit your callsign and name.

At this time, is there anyone who would like to check into the Kings County Radio Club’s 2 Meter Net?

[Allow participants to check-in in an orderly fashion and record there callsigns and names. If you cannot recognize their callsigns or names, ask them to repeat them.]

[After check-ins:]

This is the weekly meeting of the Kings County Radio Club’s 2 Meter Net, which meets every Tuesday, at 9 PM on this repeater. The Kings County Radio Club is an ARRL affiliated, Brooklyn based Amateur Radio Club with members throughout the metropolitan area and all over the United States.

Our Club meets on the first Wednesday of every month. At this time our meetings are held via Zoom teleconferencing software. Our members are sent the link to connect to the meetings and if anyone else is interested in joining one of our Zoom meetings, there is a link to make that request on our Club’s website. Our next meeting will be [insert meeting date].

The General Meeting begins around 8 PM and usually lasts until 9:00 to 10 PM. Members gather in the Zoom Conference after 7 PM to have informal conversations.

The Kings County Radio Club also offers a Technical Net on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, on this repeater, at 9 PM. All licensed amateurs are welcome to join and participate, either with a question or a comment or an answer for an earlier question

The Kings County Radio Club also offers a 10 Meter Radio Net every Sunday morning at 11 AM at 28.380 MHz.

Keep 10 Meters alive!

If you are not within radio distance from our repeater, audio is streamed on the internet – just point your web browser to “Stream.KC2RC.com”, we also have an EchoLink node KC2RC-R available. During our Sunday10 Meter Nets we offer the audio of it with the same Stream.KC2RC.com link.

[Optional Columbia University Amateur Radio Club Net Promotion]

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We have donated time on our Club Repeater to the Columbia University Amateur Radio Club every Monday night at 9 PM. Everyone is welcome to join the Net, and you do not have to be a Columbia University Radio Club member!

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All of the previous information is available on our Club website, www.KingsCountyRadioClub.com, along with news, forums, archives of Club newsletters and original articles. If you have a chance, take a look at the website! An application for Club membership is also available on our website, and we take PayPal, or checks!

Our website is hosted by a local Webhosting Company, 3 Aliens Web Hosting, who we would like to thank for their generosity.

Are there any late check-ins for the Net?

[Call each check-in that did not indicate that they had no traffic, for their comments]

Are there any further late check-ins for the Net?

[Pause]

[Call each late check-in that did not indicate that they had no traffic, for their comments]

Is there anything for swap and shop?

[Pause]

[Call Howard KD2MSU for his weather report]

[Pause]

Howard, N2GOT, this is [your callsign] , are you ready to Play the ARRL news?

[After the Audio News, thank Howard N2GOT for playing it and for his efforts in bringing it to the Net each week]

[After Audio News, ask if anyone has any topics of interest for the Net?]

Does anyone have any topics of interest for the Net?

[Pause]

[If there is no more topics of interest for the Net, ask if there are any announcements, comments, or any other business for the Net?]

Are there any announcements, comments, or any other business for the Net?

[Pause]

[After any announcements, comments, or any other business for the Net, go through the list of check-ins and thank them for checking in and contributing to the Net and then turn the repeater back to casual communications.]

I would like to thank the following people for checking in and contributing to the Net tonight:

[List the callsigns of the participants that checked in to the Net]

Remember that everything mentioned here tonight is available on our Club website: www.KingsCountyRadioClub.com!

This is [your callsign]. This Net is now closed and the repeater is returned for casual communications.

Thank You