{"id":66,"date":"2018-01-10T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2020-02-17T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T02:57:20","slug":"ncs-script","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"NCS Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STX ARC ARES NET CONTROL SCRIPT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Opening of the Net \u2013 <\/strong>Good evening everyone. Calling the Virgin Islands ARES net, calling the Virgin Islands ARES net, this is &lt;<em>Name&gt;<\/em>, &lt;<em>Call phonetically&gt;<\/em> and I will be your net control this evening.\u00a0 This net meets weekly every Monday at 8 pm on the VI repeater system. All amateurs are welcome to check in.<\/li>\n<li>All matters of interest to the amateur community are welcomed, however discussion of relevant club items are particularly welcomed. This is a directed net.\u00a0 Please only transmit when directed.\u00a0 Again, I am &lt;<em>Name&gt;<\/em>, &lt;<em>Call phonetically&gt;<\/em>.\u00a0 (DEKEY &amp; PAUSE a few seconds)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emergency \/ Priority Traffic <\/strong>\u2013 Before we accept check-ins, is there any emergency or priority traffic at this time? (PAUSE)\u00a0 Hearing none, we will continue with check-ins to the net.\u00a0 I will first take Echolink or IRLP check-ins, followed by general check-ins.\u00a0 \u00a0We will take check-ins by island.\u00a0 When checking in please provide your call sign, name, island, and if you have traffic for the net.\u00a0 Also if you are a short-time check-in, please specify this when checking in.\u00a0 To facilitate check-ins, please space out your check-in transmissions.\u00a0 This is &lt;<em>Name&gt;<\/em>, &lt;<em>Call phonetically&gt;<\/em> now accepting any Echolink or IRLP check-ins:<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Echolink \/ IRLP check-ins will call in at this time<\/em><\/strong><em>. Pause a LONG time as there is delay.\u00a0 Wait until there aren\u2019t anymore calls checking in, or a big long pause.\u00a0 If none, continue to general check-ins.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>People will now call in at this time<\/em><\/strong><em>. \u00a0Wait until there aren\u2019t anymore calls checking in, or a big long pause.\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>General Check Ins \u2013 <\/strong>We will now accept check Ins for the island of XXX.\u00a0 <em>(Note:\u00a0 Water Island checks in with St. Thomas)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>People will now call in at this time<\/em><\/strong><em>. Wait until there aren\u2019t anymore calls checking in, or a big long pause.\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Acknowledgement of Check Ins \u2013 <\/strong>This is net control, <em>&lt;Call&gt;<\/em> recognizing the following stations: <em>Read back the list of calls &amp; names you have checked-in.\u00a0 <\/em>Are there any other stations that I did not copy, or copied incorrectly?\u00a0 Please call now.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat the check in process for the other two USVI islands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Announcements<\/strong> \u2013 We will now move on to announcements. <em>Go to the first station on the list who indicated that they have announcement(s)<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize announcing station &amp; let them make announcement<\/li>\n<li>Thank you (<em>NAME &amp; CALL<\/em>) for the announcement. Are there any questions regarding this announcement?<\/li>\n<li>Do we have any other check-ins (ask after first announcement)<\/li>\n<li><em>Repeater with other stations who have announcements.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Questions \u2013<\/strong> Are there any stations with any other questions or information requests for the net?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Closing of the Net <\/strong>&#8211; Hearing none we will close the net. I would like to thank all participating stations for their time &amp; cooperation.\u00a0 Additional VI-ARES information may be found at the website ares.vihamradio.org\u00a0\u00a0 This is &lt;<em>Name&gt;<\/em>, your net control closing the net and returning the frequency to normal use.\u00a0 &lt;<em>Call&gt;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STX ARC ARES NET CONTROL SCRIPT Opening of the Net \u2013 Good evening everyone. Calling the Virgin Islands ARES net, calling the Virgin Islands ARES net, this is &lt;Name&gt;, &lt;Call phonetically&gt; and I will be your net control this evening.\u00a0 This net meets weekly every Monday at 8 pm on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/835"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vihamradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}