[EICO] Possible new 40m AM net

[Brian Carling]

I was discussing this on another group and thought you guys in GA, 
AL and FL might take an interest in a new Saturday morning
 40m AM net 

We should talk about the steps necessary to keep a good AM net 
functional.

My idea is that you need a main net manager and then two 
other backup net control stations who will be committed to help out 
when the regular guy can't be there to call up the net.
Run it properly with a brief explanatory preamble.
Take a brief standby for emergency and priority traffic
on the frequency. Always be ready and willing to relinquish 
the frequency in an emergency.

I would suggest a roundtable format where the net control 
keeps track of whose turn it is, and passes it around appropriately.
Try to avoid having ten minute monologues that wear everyone 
out. Make most transmissions say 3 to 5 minutes long for example.
Then after about an hour, you go to a brief Boatanchor Swap 
session for anyone who wants to list radio gear for sale and wanted.

I think this could be a grand success, since much of the old 
nets have disappeared and we have great daytime propagation out 
to about 500-600 miles with even small 30-50 watt signals
often being heard at S9 on 40m.

Comments? Additions? Corrections? Improvements?
Suggestions?

I would love to see 4 or 5 new 40m AM nets started in the daytimes 
on Saturday mornings when signals can often be at their peak.

What say you?

73 de AF4K, Brian