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PREAMBLE

This is to be read at the opening session in the morning at 07:00 ET only.

NET CONTROL STATIONS AND RELIEF OPERATORS ADDRESSES AND EMAILS

This is a complete listing of all the Net Control Stations and Relief Operators names, telephone numbers and email addresses.

OPERATING PERMIT INFORMATION BY COUNTRY

RECIPROCAL OPERATING COUNTRIES LIST

INTERNATIONAL THIRD PARTY TRAFFIC

Always have before you the list of countries with which we share reciprocal and/or third-party agreements.  There are restrictions on international nets.  Third party traffic can only be handled with countries with which the USA has a third party agreement.  Phone patches are simply one method of passing third party traffic and when a check-in wants a patch to or from someone in a country with which we do not have a third party agreement, the Net Control Station must advise that this cannot be done.

EMERGENCY INFORMATION

General Rules and Format for Handling Emergency Traffic

MEDICAL ASSISTANTS LIST (last updated August 22, 2005)

This page contains a listing of the medical personnel who have volunteered to assist the net when medical advise is required during an emergency.  Our thanks to you all for your help.

GUIDELINES FOR NET CONTROL OPERATORS

The Manager and Net Control Stations (NCS) have complete authority over net operations.  The Intercontinental Amateur Traffic Net is a controlled net.  It is the responsibility of each Net Control Station to be polite, patient, confident, and should keep traffic running smoothly.

FCC RULE BOOK

Have a copy of the FCC Rule Book available.  In our society today, we are involved with rule making as well as rule obeying and amateur radio is no exception.  Some of the interpretations of FCC rules that you may hear, may or may not be acceptable to you.  In order to avoid being hoodwinked by someone else's erroneous interpretations, you should have the accurate list of FCC rules before you to help you make your own informed decision.  If someone challenges your operation, you can tell him you will talk to him, off frequency, after you are relieved as Net Control.  Do not allow controversy to interrupt the operation of the net.

PROCEDURES

The Net Control Station should know and understand net procedures well.  Be confident, firm, polite, and let people know that you are in control.  When you respond to a check-in, use his call-sign.  When the net is busy you will have doubling and tripling and it will sound like a bee-hive.  Possibly the only way a station will hear you is if you use his complete call sign.  Use standard phonetics when you do it.  Just using someone's name, "There's Bob!  Hi, Bob, Good Morning!", is not very informative to the other stations on the net, who because of propagation, cannot hear Bob and have no idea which "Bob" you are talking to.

ORDER FOR CHECK-INS

Net Controls should follow some kind of order when asking for check-ins.  If you have a beam, swing it around periodically.  Ask for check-ins from anyone outside the continental limits of the USA.  You are running an Intercontinental Network.  Terminology and procedure comes with practice so don't be afraid to listen and try.