[NLRS] Wed. nite 144.240 & 144.250 USB nets on tonight

[Todd Sprinkmann]

   Hello,

   Beautiful weather tonight so the nets are definitely a go 
tonight.

   I will start at 8pm central on 144.240 and spend a half hour
looking only west thru north (my location being 40 miles north
of Milwaukee).  This is to stir up activity in W and N WIS,
along with adjacent portions of IA/MN and UP of MICH.
Areas that are often overlooked but I enjoy being able to
work into.

   At 8:30, I will start looking south on 144.250, and run the
customary Badger Contesters net.  The bulk of our check-ins
tend to be from the Milwaukee and Illinois region, but I do
also swing the beams in all directions from about 8:35 until
about 8:45, give or take.

   The purpose of these nets or activity periods is to stir up
activity on 144.

   After I have gone around the compass and checked
everyone in, I will come back to each participant at least
once (in check-in order, hopefully) for any comments or
traffic they may have for the net.  If you'd like to be "in and
out", that's fine; let me know and I'll make a note of it.

   Also, once stations have made contact with the net, they are
perfectly free to QSY and try to establish contact with others.
In fact, I encourage it.

    Far better to have multiple QSO's on multiple frequencies,
than have everybody tethered to the net frequencies.  This is
especially true if the band is open like it was last week, and
stations want to try and work some DX.

   We had 10 stations on 144.240 last week and 23 of them
on 144.250.  It was both exciting and busy.  If you'd rather
stay with the net the whole time, it's fine by me.  But again,
don't feel as though you have to stick around the whole time.
This is a very informal net and the only purpose is to get 144
busy.

  73,
  Todd  KC9BQA  EN63ao   40 miles north of Milwaukee