Good evening and welcome to the Norwood Amatuer Radio Club's CW Practice Net. This is a directed net open to all amateurs. This is (YOUR NAME/YOUR CALLSIGN) your net control for this evening.
The purpose of this net is to:
1) Assist people without any knowledge of CW to learn the code by participating.
2) Assist people who know the code but need to build their speed for
the next code level.
This net will be conducted in two sessions.
The first session will consist of character introduction and confidence
building.
The second session will be speed-building.
All stations wishing to participate in this net please check-in.
When checking in, please say, this is... <drop carrier>, followed
by a carrier drop to check for doubling,
followed by your call sign, name, and location.
Do not hesitate to check in if you only wish to monitor.
We will only request code copy from those stations willing to give
it.
If you wish to not give code copy, please check in as monitoring.
Check-ins, please call now.
<Take check-ins round 1>
<Acknowledge all check-ins, if a station is mobile, ask if they are able to safely copy, if a station wishes to monitor only, ask what level they wish to participate at. >
Tonight's letter group will be <give the letters and the dits,dahs>.
<If this is group 1 only, add the following: >
Morse code is made up of combinations of two sounds, a short sound, the dit, and a long sound, the dah. The dah is about three times the length of the dit when sent correctly.
We will now send the letters in tonight's group, once each, and then
ten times each.
This will help you to identify the sounds that each letter makes.
<Send the character introduction section. Be sure to periodically drop the carrier between sections to prevent a repeater time-out. Also, when dropping the carrier, listen briefly for emergency traffic and/or a repeater ID. If this should happen, pause your tape, comment about the repeater ID and/or handle the traffic, then resume. If possible, just after the first character of each set of ten, speak the character into the mike {sample} [.- 'A' ], etc. >
<Recall stations and acknowledge ability to hear, only non monitoring stations>
We will now take additional check-ins.
When checking in, please say, this is... <drop carrier>, followed by a carrier drop to check for doubling, followed by your call sign, name, and location.
Do not hesitate to check in if you only wish to monitor. We will only request code copy from those stations willing to give it. If you wish to not give code copy, please check in as monitoring.
Check-ins, please call now.
<Take check-ins round 2>
<Acknowledge all check-ins, if a station is mobile, ask if they are able to safely copy, if a station wishes to monitor only, ask what level they wish to participate at. >
<Announce that you will be sending # of words at what speed and that they ONLY contain letters from the current group and less>
{Sample} [Tonight I will send 5 words that only contain letters from groups 1 & 2]
<Recall stations in check-in order and see if they copied a given word>
{Sample} [Ok George, N1NAZ, what was the third word.]
<Whether it is right or wrong, complement them for trying>
That is the end of session 1. The next session will be speed building.
We will now take additional check-ins.
Do not hesitate to check in if you only wish to monitor. We will only request code copy from those stations willing to give it. If you wish to not give code copy, please check in as monitoring.
Check-ins, please call now.
<Take check-ins round 2>
<Acknowledge all check-ins, if a station is mobile, ask if they are able to safely copy, if a station wishes to monitor only, ask what level they wish to participate at. >
We will now begin the speed building session. This session is NOT limited to only prior learned groups and may contain any valid Morse code characters.
The first sentence being sent will be sent with a 5wpm word speed and a 13wpm-character speed. Here we go.
<Send the sentence, don't forget to drop the carrier about every 7-8 words between words to prevent a repeater timeout.>
<Go down the check-in list and either ask them a question about the sentence or ask for specific words. Again always be positive!!!>
The next sentence being sent will be sent with a 13wpm-word speed and a 18wpm-character speed. Here we go.
<Send the sentence>
<Go down the check-in list and either ask them a question about the sentence or ask for specific words. Again always be positive!!!>
The last sentence being sent, for you speed demons, will be sent at 20wpm-word speed and 25wpm-character speed. Here we go.
<Send the sentence>
<Go down the check-in list and either ask them a question about the sentence or ask for specific words. Again always be positive!!!>
<Go down the check-in list and ask for comments. >
This has been another edition of the Norwood Amatuer Radio Club's CW practice net. This net meets every Tuesday on the 147.21 machine Thanks to all those who participated, the trustee of the machine, the NARC, and all those who stood by while the net was in progress.
This is (your call) closing the NARC CW practice net and returning the
repeater To general amateur use.