Hi Ron!

I ran some Army MARS nets largely like you described, but that was several
years ago.

Guess the fifty second clear period for tuning purposes at the beginning of
the net is probably historic by now, since tuning the modern rig doesn't
demand so much effort. Anyway, we still had to do that back in the day, and
I was able to time that quite accurately because I had one of the Science
Products modified braille clocks that had wheels including a seconds wheel
that was marked every 5 seconds. When the braille Sense is working, it has a
stop watch that would serve the purpose, but making that machine work
reliably on demand is more miss than hit now so I'm not sure how I would
arrange that tuning period in the modern age. If that is now history that
you can confirm, that's OK, but if it is still a part of the net preamble, I
wonder how we'd handle it now. They haven't sold that clock in several
years, and the motor in mine finally stopped. I'd love to replace it with
something that worked as well, but that is elusive also. I can set a timer
on the iphone at the minute level, using Siri, but don't think it works for
seconds. Ah well, progress bites again, hi hi.

73,
Dave   
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Sent: Saturday, 14 November 2015 6:42 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Net control operator

Hi Linda,
I ran an Air Force MARS net for almost a year using nothing but headphones
to listen and a Perkins Brailler to log. It's not high-tech but it worked
very well for me. Today, you could transcribe your brailed notes into an MS
Word file after the net so that you can create a date/time bulleted net log.

73,




Ron Miller
N6MSA
Tarpon Springs, FL
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda C. Knight
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Net control operator

Hi alleaa

Since I got my license a few years ago, i've yet to try my how at net
contro= l.

Well, my goal is to do my turn as  a Net Control and not sure of the best
wa= y to do this.  My radio is not near  a computer so was thinking  how do
you d= o this-take down the callsigns. To count checkins. Thanks.=20
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