[SIERA] DCART Net changes, Monday Nov 27th

[Wplewis2 at cs.com]

Hello to all,

Glenn will be out of town Monday, Nov 27th, and has suggested that the DCART 
Net be an exercise in traffic passing, following up on last week's DCART 
meeting.  Will, KD7NIR will be Net Control Nov 27th, in Dale's place.  Dale will be 
Net Control on Dec 4th for Will, who will be out of town that day.

The format for Nov 27th will be quite different, and this week's differences 
will probably not be shown on the DCART web page.

1) The script will be as abbreviated as much as possible to make time to pass 
traffic.  

2) Check-ins will be called starting with Dale Anderson and cycling through 
the roster.  The purpose of this change is to rotate the order in which people 
respond to the exercise, so the last people on the roster won't always be the 
last to be called.

3) People who have not participated in the net for a while will not be 
called.  They should check in as late or missed members, and will be restored to 
future check-in lists.

4) For Monday's exercise, check-ins will be given tactical names for the 
purposes of passing traffic that night.  For example, if Dale checks in, his 
tactical call will be "First" - - if Dick Young checks in, his tactical call will 
be "Second" - - and so on through the roster.

5) The exercise will use the ARRL Radiogram format, at least for this week, 
including the Header, To, Text of message, and Signature.  Net Control will 
call "First" operator, pass the traffic which will be less than five words long, 
and ask if "First" needs any fills.  If no fills needed, "First" will relay 
the message to "Second", using the ARRL format.  Then "Second" passes the 
message back to Net Control.

6) Net Control will then send a different message to "Third", who will relay 
it to "Fourth", who sends it back to Net Control.  I hope we can move along 
and get to the last check-in, but accuracy of handling traffic is more important 
than speed, and in fact, speed slows down the process because repeats are 
more likely to be needed.  For words that are unusual or likely to be 
misunderstood, it is good practice for the sender to say "Frodo", I spell: 
foxtrot-romeo-oscar-delta-oscar, "Frodo".  Numbers, such as 39 are not passed as 
"thirty-nine" alone.  Instead, say "thirty-nine" I say figures three nine "thirty-nine".

7) Don't worry about creating any messages.  Net Control will take care of 
that, so just have fun and pass traffic.  We'll find out how many messages can 
be passed before 7:00 PM. 

73

Will, KD7NIR for Glen WB6W this week.