This is _______________________. My name is ______________________ and I am located in ________________________. I am net control station for this Thursday, ____________________________ 20_____, Session of the North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee SKYWARN traing net.
This net meets weekly on Thursday of each week at 8:00 P.M., and involves the local area link frequency, which links the 147.240 repeater near Huntsville, Alabama, the 147.36 repeater in Section, Alabama, and the 146.960 repeater near Moulton, Alabama.
The purpose of this net is to practice net operations similar to those used during emergency activation. When emergenct activation is required, based on procedures outlined in the standard operating procedures, this net would activate as the North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee SKYWARN Emergency Net. The purpose of the emergency net is to spot and track severe weather and to provide a communications network that links the counties in North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee to the National Weather Service office in Huntsville, Alabama. The goal of this net is to provide the citizens of the Huntsville NWS Office coverage area with the earliest possible forewarning of severe weather effecting this area. This net works in conjunction with the North Alabama Weather Alert Response Network (NALWARN), who mans the Huntsville NWS office during severe weather events.
Please be advised that during an actual emergency, only net liasion stations would check in to this net. Your counties depend on your participation in the local nets. However, since this is a training net, all stations that have not checked in with a local training net this week or need to test equipment are encouraged to check in to this training net.
If any station needs additional information about this net or needs a copy of the SOP, please contact this station after the net.
This is _____________________, are there any stations with emergency traffic for this net. This is a directed net and stations may not call other stations without the consent and acknowledgement of this station.
At this time I will proceed with the roll call of counties in North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee, in alphabetical order. At the end of the roll call, I will reserve some time for out of area checkins and late checkins. When you check in, I ask that you check in slowly and clearly, giving your call sign phonetically, your name, your location, that is your city, town or community, and whether or not you have any traffic for this net.
This is ____________________, with the North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee SKYWARN training net calling:
| County | #checkins |
|---|---|
| Colbert County | ____________ |
| Cullman County | ____________ |
| Dekalb County | ____________ |
| Frankin County Alabama | ____________ |
| Frankin County Tennessee | ____________ |
| Jackson County | ____________ |
| Lauderdale County | ____________ |
| Lawrence County | ____________ |
| Limeston County | ____________ |
| Lincoln County | ____________ |
| Madison County | ____________ |
| Marshall County | ____________ |
| Moore County | ____________ |
| Morgan County | ____________ |
TOTAL CHECKINS NORTH ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNTIES ___________
This concludes the roll call of counties in the Huntsville National Weather Service Office area, are there in stations in counties that I did not call that wish to check in to this net.
# OUT OF AREA CHECKINS___________________
Are there any stations with announcements for this net, if so, please call now. (LIST ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ALLOW STATIONS TO PASS THEM, NOW)
This is station _________________ net control for the North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee SKYWARN training net, this concludes the regular business for this net, is there anything this net can do for anyone before we close and are there any late checkins? if so call now:
# LATE CHECKINS ________________
# INITIAL CHECKINS ________________
# OUT OF AREA ________________
TOTAL CHECKINS ________________
This is _________________, I want to thank all of you who have participated in this net tonight and I encourage your continued participation in this net. Tonight we had ____________________ total checkins. This is _____________________ now closing this session of the North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennnessee SKYWARN training net and I will shortly be returning the linked repeaters back to their normal use, 73 and good evening to the net.
