Weekly Net – VE7SCC | Coquitlam Amateur Radio Emergency Services Society

The Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club net meets every Monday at 19:30 PT. We start on the VE7MFS repeater (145.310 MHz, -600 kHz, tone 127.3 Hz) followed by FM simplex on either 146.430 MHz. And if time permits, SSB (USB) on 144.220 MHz.

Action	Script
At 7:25pm, go on VE7MFS and announce that the Coquitlam Amateur radio net will begin at 7:30 and that we ask for a clear frequency. Thank you.
	All stations, all stations, all stations – welcome to the weekly net of the Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club. This net meets every Monday night at 7:30 PM on this frequency, for the purposes of connecting the amateur radio community and announcing club information. This is an open net and everyone is welcome to join in. Please use standard phonetics when announcing your call and let the repeater drop before transmitting. Break.
	Your net control for tonight is ______________________________ and my call sign is ____________________________. The club’s call sign is VE7SCC.
	We are centrally situated in the ancestral and core territory of the Kwikwetlem First Nation known as səmiq̓ʷəʔelə (pronounced suh-mEE-kwuh EL-uh) – meaning Place of the Great Blue Heron – also referred to as the Riverview grounds in Coquitlam. It is open often on the weekends. Please contact us if you wish to visit the club during the week. We hold our regular monthly business meeting on the last Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM (except during the summer). The meetings are held at the club along with video conferencing. This is an open meeting, and visitors are welcome to attend. If you wish to attend by video, please email us at club@ve7scc.org
	At the end of the net, I will provide information on how to contact the club. Break.
	This net can be interrupted at any time for emergencies so come now with your call sign, starting with EMERGENCY or PRIORITY traffic. Break.
	Are there any members of the Coquitlam club who would like to make an announcement. Break.
	Are there any members of other amateur radio clubs who wish to make an announcement? Break.
	At the end of the repeater portion of the net, we will run FM simplex at 146.430 MHz and SSB simplex at 144.220 MHz. Please indicate if you would like to attend any of these sessions.
Call for Check Ins \| Start with mobiles, portables or handhelds. Respond to stations in the order they checked in taking note of any traffic. Between check-in groups, broadcast that this is the Coquitlam net, your name and call sign.	Before I call for general check-ins, I will first start with mobiles, portables or handhelds – in groups of three.
If done with mobiles, portables or handhelds, then start taking check-ins including base stations — in groups of three; advertise that this an open net. And if you will run Simplex, to remind everyone of the selected frequency and ask the contact if they will join.	I will now call for general check-ins – in groups of three.
CLOSE THE NET If no one checks in after about 1 minute, then broadcast…	Hearing no further check-ins, I will provide information on how to contact the club.
Respond to stations in the order they checked in taking note of any traffic. Between check-in groups, broadcast that this is the Coquitlam net, your name and call sign.	For more information about our club you can contact us by phone at 604-523-0354, email club@ve7scc.org or by our website at ve7scc.org. You can also follow us on Twitter @ve7scc.
Call for late or missed check-ins; record and respond to them one at a time.
Give number of check-ins and thank everyone who checked in and who gave a clear frequency.	With no further check-ins, I now close tonight’s repeater portion of the net at HH:MM and return this repeater back to normal traffic.
If you will run the simplex portion of the net, then announce that you will move to the Simplex frequency.	I will now switch to FM simplex frequency 146.430 MHz.
Simplex FM portion of the net welcome.	Is this frequency in use?
If in use, ask the stations if we can use this frequency for our net. If not, then announce that we will move to alternate frequency.
	All stations, all stations, all stations. This is VE7SCC. My name is __________ and my call sign is ___________. Welcome to the simplex FM portion of the Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club’s net. This is a directed net. I will call out stations in order of the roster as recorded from the repeater portion of our net and call for general check-ins after the roll call.
Call out the stations in your list and record the results.
At the end of the list.	Are there any other stations that would like to check-into our net, please announce your call sign?
Close the FM simplex portion of the net.	With no further check-ins, I now close tonight’s simplex FM portion of the net at HH:MM and return this frequency back to normal use.
*OPTIONAL SSB Net*	If you are interested in joining us on SSB, I will close the simplex FM portion of the net at HH:MM and then switch over to 144.220 MHz Upper Side Band.
SSB Net on 144.220 MHz	All stations, all stations, all stations. This is VE7SCC. My name is __________ and my call sign is ___________. Welcome to the SSB portion of the Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club’s net. This is a directed net. I will call out stations in order of the roster as recorded from the repeater portion of our net and call for general check-ins after the roll call.
Call out the stations in your list and record the results.
At the end of the list.	Are there any other stations that would like to check-into our net, please announce your call sign?
Close the FM simplex portion of the net.	With no further check-ins, I now close tonight’s simplex SSB portion of the net at HH:MM and return this frequency back to normal use.