For what it's worth, Pat's experience and mine are very similar.

For many years, I was net control for our club nets, and as county EC/RO,
was net control for routine and emergency communications nets as well.  In
all cases, I simply used the Perkins Brailler.  That way, I had a very
easy-to-use log for keeping track of people, their locations, handled
traffic, etc..

Sometimes, the older and simpler methods are really the best, but this is
just the opinion of an aging college professor, who is now rapidly
approaching retirement!  (grin)

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Pat Byrne
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:29 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Net control operator

Linda,
For many years I used my Perkins Brailler for our club's Sunday night net.
Back in the day sometimes there were 100 checkins.  Wrote down the call and
a "t" if they had traffic or some note to myself for later reference.  And
after the check ins, I could reference the list sequentially to see who had
something for the net.
I guess I ran that net for five years or so, then brought in other NCS,
limited myself to a couple of nets a month, then finally dropped off and
left it to new blood.
Pat, K9JAUAt 09:36 PM 11/11/2015, you wrote:
>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
>=20
>
>  Sent from my iPhone=