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A. This is <your FCC call sign, first name> Subnet Control for the <your region name> region. | A. This is <your FCC call sign, first name> Subnet Control for the <your region name> region. | ||
When I call for check-ins, please give your tactical call sign. When I recognize you, please give your first name, your full team name slowly and then your FCC call sign slowly using ITU phonetics. Your team name should only be the name of the team or neighborhood hosting the deployment and should include the names of other teams that may be participating at that location. Please come now. Please come now with your tactical call sign. | When I call for check-ins, please give your tactical call sign. When I recognize you, please give your first name, your full team name slowly and then your FCC call sign slowly using ITU phonetics. Your team name should only be the name of the team or neighborhood hosting the deployment and should not include the names of other teams that may be participating at that location. Please come now. Please come now with your tactical call sign. | ||
[Check in stations. Using the [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M3TuoKgcmAiWSjhj5dgOAZCkpmaA2fIUSbXxQPXPYf8/edit?tab=t.0 Stations Participating Log], record each tactical call sign and then ask for the name of the team that is providing the staging area and record that name. You can also recording the operator name and FCC call sign but that is optional.] | [Check in stations. Using the [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M3TuoKgcmAiWSjhj5dgOAZCkpmaA2fIUSbXxQPXPYf8/edit?tab=t.0 Stations Participating Log], record each tactical call sign and then ask for the name of the team that is providing the staging area and record that name. You can also recording the operator name and FCC call sign but that is optional.] | ||
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We will start by finishing check-ins. | We will start by finishing check-ins. | ||
After all stations in our region are checked in, I will leave this frequency briefly to provide my roster of check-ins to the | After all stations in our region are checked in, I will leave this frequency briefly to provide my roster of check-ins to the Tactical Net. When I do so, I will be asking for volunteers to serve as temporary Subnet Control. If you are willing to do so, please consider helping out and speak up when I call for volunteers. | ||
I will call for formal traffic on a regular basis. When I do so, please provide counts of messages you have that you have not previously given me. As you know, the precedence levels are emergency, priority, health & welfare and routine. When I call for your traffic, please give the number of messages you have at each precedence level. I will then take messages with highest precedence first. | I will call for formal traffic on a regular basis. When I do so, please provide counts of messages you have that you have not previously given me. As you know, the precedence levels are emergency, priority, health & welfare and routine. When I call for your traffic, please give the number of messages you have at each precedence level. I will then take messages with highest precedence first. | ||
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I. I will now read the roster of stations again. This time, when I read your tactical call sign, please respond by saying “I can hear” followed by the tactical calls of the stations that you can hear fairly well including Net Control. Then end by saying “This is” followed by your own tactical call sign, your FCC call sign and the proword “Out”. I will acknowledge each response. If any station hears a response that I did not acknowledge please give the proword “Relay.” | I. I will now read the roster of stations again. This time, when I read your tactical call sign, please respond by saying “I can hear” followed by the tactical calls of the stations that you can hear fairly well including Net Control. Then end by saying “This is” followed by your own tactical call sign, your FCC call sign and the proword “Out”. I will acknowledge each response. If any station hears a response that I did not acknowledge please give the proword “Relay.” | ||
[Read list of tactical call signs, pausing for each station to reply with the list of tactical call signs they can hear followed by their own tactical and FCC call | [Read list of tactical call signs, pausing for each station to reply with the list of tactical call signs they can hear followed by their own tactical and FCC call sign. Record their report in one or more rows of a copy of [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNd2me-VK364JbsJBel-n4TWf2RZ30CpkOSQkE5Ixlo/edit?usp=sharing this Station Signal Reports form]. Confirm that you have heard by saying “Thank you <tactical call sign>”]. | ||
J. [If time permits you can allow stations that are checked in to ask questions. Don’t forget to return to the | J. [If time permits you can allow stations that are checked in to ask questions. Don’t forget to return to the [[Subnet Control Operator Standard Operating Procedure]] and proceed with Step 7. | ||
====== What To Do If Stations Attempt to Check-In That Are Not Part of the Exercise ====== | ====== What To Do If Stations Attempt to Check-In That Are Not Part of the Exercise ====== | ||
