EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

very once in a while, it’s good to go back to basics on various elements of amateur radio. That includes emergency communications. At the heart of the service we provide to our community in an emergency or during a public service event is the , which is short for network. A net is a gathering of more than two hams on the same frequency at the same time for a specific purpose. Some may be regularly-scheduled; others may be set up to meet a particular need. Some may be informal while others may be tightly structured. Some may allow any station to check in, others may be restricted to members of a specific group. But they all share some common characteristics and we’ll start