<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>By all means. Send a Bulletin out to your entire section. If that is Oklahoma, then send it using the path of OK7-7 and it should hit every digi in the state ONCE. Exactly what you want for a section net!<br><br></div>Encourage everyone to answer back using OK7-7 too so that everyone can see the traffic. It is possible to have everyone choose to use OK3-3 if only the central net control needs to see the traffic, but little is saved compared to everyone being situationally aware of all traffic.<br><br></div>Should be fun!<br><br></div>Use the net to discover if ALL DIGIS in the state are putting out the correct LOCAL INFO. See <a href="http://aprs.org/localinfo.html">http://aprs.org/localinfo.html</a><br><br></div><div>less than HALF of all digis are doing this and so it undermines the credibiitly of the APRS system.<br><br></div><div>In fact, you should do this for EVERY net, be it on HF, VHF, or whatever. APRS is supposed to be showing everyone everything going on in ham radio in real time.<br></div><div>And it is nice to see checkins in data form coming in from APRS.<br><br></div>Bob, Wb4APR<br><div><div><div><br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Lloyd Colston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kc5fm@arrl.net" target="_blank">kc5fm@arrl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good morning,<div><br></div><div>I'm interested in starting a Section net on APRS.</div><div><br></div><div>How would you recommend conducting the net? Message in APRSIS32 to Oklahoma or NCS sending a bulletin to announce checkins?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>73<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Lloyd Colston KC5FM<br>Oklahoma Section Manager<br>Altus, OK <a href="http://www.arrl.org" target="_blank">http://www.arrl.org</a><br><br>It is better to be informed than it is to be afraid.<br><br><a href="http://twitter.com/altusready" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/arrl_OK</a><br><a href="http://altusem.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">arrlok.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://www.speek.com/kc5fm" target="_blank">http://www.speek.com/kc5fm</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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