The primary purpose of the Readiness Check Net is to provide an opportunity for field spotters to test their equipment and the transmission path to the repeater system. If we don’t respond within 5-7 seconds call again. We monitor several radios and satellite communications. Listening and understanding what you’ve heard makes your participation more valuable and increases the effectiveness of the net. If you have important information related to current radio traffic, you can simply transmit your callsign.Ī directed net is easy to participate in if you listen carefully and follow the directions provided by the net control station. Any message you have related to a life-threatening situation can be classified as an emergency message. For example, if you spot a funnel cloud, transmit your callsign followed by the keyword “emergency”. You can help net control prioritize your message by using key words when you transmit your callsign. This brings order to the information flow and helps ensure that urgent communication can take place. This applies whether you are responding to a call from net control or you have a message for net control. The basic operating principle of a directed net is that you identify your station by transmitting your callsign and wait to be acknowledged by net control. A directed net means that the net control station, usually know as Columbus Weather, manages all communications on the net. When either of these nets is in session the normal courtesy tone is replaced with the Morse code character “W”.īoth nets are operated as directed nets. The readiness check has several goals whereas the severe weather net has a more focused purpose. Each net is designed to serve a specific purpose. Radio Net ProceduresĬOSWN conducts two types of on-air nets, a readiness check net or a severe weather net. Note that the words ‘Weather Alert” will be transmitted after the tones. These tones are also used when the National Weather Service wants to talk to us. Here are the tones transmitted at the beginning of a net. Motorola calls this Quick Call 2 paging or QC2 paging. If you have standard paging capability on your radio you can receive the paging we send to our Net Control Operators. When you find an operational repeater, make a query on the air to be sure that you have found the correct repeater. You should try these frequencies in the order listed. If you are unable to access the weather net on 146.760 MHz. and our backup frequencies require a PL tone of 123 Hz. Before you move to an alternate frequency make sure that your radio is encoding or transmitting a PL tone of 123 Hz. It is possible that an equipment failure might cause the prime weather net repeater on 146.760 MHz. It is important to note that severe weather nets are considered emergency communication because of the risk to property and life. For example, if the previous Net Control operator maintained situation reports and inventories, then they would make a good backup and should continue to log information.This page discusses ways to stay connected to COSWN and how Readiness Checks and Severe Weather Nets are conducted. Since it may be difficult to actually transfer this information in a real emergency, it is a good idea to identify someone to act as backup Net Control and keep a parallel log of the above information. As soon as convenient or possible, the following information should be transferred to the new Net Control operator: (1) the list of stations checking in, (2) situation reports and (3) resource inventory. To transfer, agree who will assume Net Control duty, and simply announce the change to the net. Net Control may be transferred as needed. If there is a major event with obvious damage, such as wildfire or earthquake, deploy the resource inventory sheet. For example, during a power failure the controller may also ask whether each of the stations has power or not at their location. The aim of this procedure is to establish situational awareness. The Net Controller should record: (1) the call signs and (2) location of other stations, and (3) ask if there is any emergency or priority traffic. If multiple stations are on frequency, then determine among those present who will be Net Control. Note: Because the repeater may be disrupted during a disaster, we recommend NOT using any receive PL since simplex operation may be necessary. If there is no response or the repeater appears to be non-operational, then repeat your call on GMRS channel 22 direct simplex. If another station responds, then assume they are the Net Control station The first user on frequency is acting Net Control On the BeCERTAINN repeater, using GMRS channel 22R, announce your presence by stating your call sign and asking, “are there other stations monitoring?" After a self-announcing event do the following:
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