Travis County ARES

ARES Voice Net Control Schedule

Sunday Night 7:30 p.m. Local Time, 147.36 Repeater 131.8 Tone

Travis County ARES holds two training nets each Sunday evening. The first net is a voice net and here we practice proper radio techniques and share important information on upcoming events. We normally have a training segment within the net. The second net is a packet net and is used to test our skills and equipment using 1200 baud Packet to support Winlink/Airmail operations.

Week#             (day of month)	Odd Months	Even Months
	JAN, MAR, MAY, JUL, SEP, NOV	FEB, APR, JUN, AUG, OCT, DEC
1st (1-7)	K5EJL	KC8VSE
2nd (8-14)	W5SMP	KG5O
3rd (15-21)	KE5DTP	KE5ZW
4th (22-28)	N5DFW	N0GSZ
5th (29-31)	AB5EK	N5HPC

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Net control stations (NCS), please check the table above for your scheduled nights.

You should be backup NCS for the same week number for the month following the month you are scheduled for NCS duty. e.g. If you are NCS on the third week for even numbered months, you should be backup NCS on the third week for odd numbered months.

If you can't be available on your scheduled night, please warn your backup NCS, or get one of the other experienced NCS stations to fill in.

If you're one of the NCS operators and the scheduled NCS and backup station don't appear, please fill in if you can.

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Sunday Night Packet Training Net is at 8:00 PM, on 145.73, simplex, using the unconnected mode. Set up your TNC to change the value of unproto as follows: Use firstname via x,y where [ausrly1 n5hpc-5 w5tq-4] are the real digipeaters instead of x and y. For example, my name is Bill and I can digipeat through n5hpc-5 easily. Use this argument to set your unproto:

unproto Bill via n5hpc-5,ausrly-1,w5tq-4

ausrly-1 is at 3M on 2222, n5hpc-5 is at 41st and Guadalupe and w5tq-4 is at CTECC on the old airport site.

Be sure to include all 3 digipeaters in your unproto line.