[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] NCS Solicitation For April 2025 ***CORRECTION***

[Bryan Pettigrew]

All-

One correction to the April sked... Ian notified me that he will be around
for the 2nd and the 9th, so those DSTAR nets are covered.

~Bryan WD4ADF

Bryan A. Pettigrew (Grew)
WD4ADF
(C) 619-278-8067
(p) bryan.a.pettigrew at gmail.com
Find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-pettigrew-mba-9b39739


On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM Bryan Pettigrew <
bryan.a.pettigrew at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> CQ All-
>
> It's that time of the month again to start looking for stations who want
> to be NCS's for our DSTAR and 2m nets for April!
>
> DSTAR Wednesday:  2, 9, 16, 23, 30 April
> 2m Thursday:  3, 10, 17, 24, April
>
> Ian will be traveling throughout the month, so we will need substitute
> controllers for all of the DSTAR nets in April.  If you volunteer for NCS,
> you need to have the ability to turn on the 62b reflector so our
> out-of-town stations can check in.
>
> I am still looking for more "voices" to jump in as both 2m and DSTAR
> controllers as we are dwindling down to a handful of stations who are
> volunteering to carry out the nets each week.  If you've never been a net
> controller before and would like to do it before jumping into the fray
> (especially on Thursday nights), I would highly recommend taking my NCS
> training class for a couple of reasons:
>
> -It's good training, period.  Everyone that has taken the Zoom class gets
> a lot of good knowledge out of it.
> -This is a good chance to test your rig to ensure you have a good signal
> (preferably full quieting) into the repeaters.
> -The practice net we conduct is also good training and we will throw
> scenarios at you that could happen during a regularly scheduled net.
>
> Four students is my class minimum, especially to make the practice nets
> useful.
>
> Lastly, if you're interested in a 220 net separate from 2m or DSTAR,
> please respond to this email!   I'd like to get it on the calendar for
> early to mid April and most likely on a Monday or Tuesday with a 1930 start
> time.   I'm also thinking that we will take a 2m net night and turn it into
> a 70 cm net night to warm up that repeater as well.
>
> 73 and we'll see you down the log!
>
> ~Bryan WD4ADF
>
> Bryan A. Pettigrew (Grew)
> WD4ADF
> (C) 619-278-8067
> (p) bryan.a.pettigrew at gmail.com
> Find me on LinkedIn:
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-pettigrew-mba-9b39739
>