There are five weekly nets run by the Brisbane Amateur Radio Club members. All licensed amateurs are welcome to join us.
Monday Evening DMR Net
The digital net is run on FreeDMR each Monday night at 7:00PM onwards.
Using your hotspot or your local repeater the talk group is TG 5050.
Our Motorola repeater is operating: set your radio to RX438.725MHz and TX431.725MHz.
Monday Evening HF Net
The HF net is run each Monday night at 8:00PM onwards.
First up on the night will start with 3.630MHz and the modulation mode is LSB or SSB.
This net is run by members who will use VK4RMC 70cm repeater (RX 439.975MHz, TX 434.975MHz, tone 91.5) as a secondary communication channel to set everyone up if there is any change to the frequency.
Note that horizontally polarised antennas are being used. Directional, vertically polarised antennas may not be suitable.
Wednesday Evening UHF Net
The net is held on UHF on Wednesday evenings from 8:00PM onwards on the Mount Coot-tha repeater.
Adjust your radio to RX 439.975MHz, TX 434.975MHz and tone 91.5 or access Echolink VK4BA-R.
Friday Evening UHF Net
The net is held on UHF on Fridayday evenings from 8:00PM onwards on the Mount Coot-tha repeater.
Adjust your radio to RX 439.975MHz, TX 434.975MHz and tone 91.5 or access Echolink VK4BA-R.
Sunday Evening 6m Net
The HF net is run each Sunday night from 8:00PM onwards on The Knobby repeater (VK4RBX).
Adjust your radio to RX 53.925MHz and TX 52.925MHz (no tone required).
Congratulations on being a Net Controller
Ensure you have a pen and paper for your log to write call order and other relevant information, have water, food or anything else you need to have during the entire net and don’t forget to have fun.
- Announce the beginning of the net is about to commence
- Announce your name, call sign and that you are the net controller for this BARC net and doubts should be relayed back to you for comment and or remedy
- Announce you are ready to receive callers and that they should state their call sign and name
- Write in your log of all of the call signs until silence is heard
- Then rehearse your list to the callers to affirm all callers and the net order
- You can then ask for any more callers to identify before you start the net
- Start the net with the first caller and proceed through the callers to the end of the first over
- You can now pause to ask for any more callers
- Add any callers to the list announcing it to the group
- Continue on through the overs as above until the end of the net pausing at your over to request any more callers
- Announce the final over and invite closing comments
- Thank everyone for their participation and officially close the net to the group.
Running Notes
- Listen for specific questions asked from individuals and remind the group when you can.
- Jump in and rehearse or reinstate the order of callers when needed.
- Catch all late net callers and slot them at the end of the net over.
- Remind callers to keep a silent space between each other so the repeater resets when necessary.
Have fun it’s a learning experience that will be good for you.