Louisa County ARES Net Script - Updated 1.25.2026

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CQ, CQ, CQ This is <CALLSIGN>, Net Control Operator for the Louisa County ARES Net.My name is <NAME>, and my QTH is <QTH>. This net meets briefly every Sunday evening at approximately 8:45pm, following the MARC Net, for the purpose of testing amateur preparedness through the utiization of the ACØEC repeater, located near Wapello, Iowa.

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This is a controlled net and all stations will check in with the net control operator. This net is open to anyone who is licensed to operate on this repeater and is interested in amateur radio public service communications. This is <CALLSIGN>, Net Control Operator for the Louisa County ARES net.

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At this time all stations with emergency traffic, and emergency traffic only, please check-in now.

<Pause for emergency traffic>

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If at any time you have emergency traffic, please break into the net, and your traffic will be handled accordingly.

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We will take the stations on Echolink first, followed by all ARES and general check-ins.

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At this time, stations wishing to check in using Echo-link, please go now.

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At this time all other stations wishing to check-in, go now. If you have any informal

traffic or comments for the net, please state so when you check-in.

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This is <CALLSIGN>, Net Control Operator for the Louisa County ARES Net.

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For more information, or to join ARES, go to www.MuscatineARES.org

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Following this net, on the 146.910 repeater in Muscatine at 9:00pm, is the weekly Muscatine County ARES repeater net, and is followed by the Muscatine, Louisa and Cedar County ARES simplex net, on 146.445. All stations are welcome, and encouraged to check in.

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(CALL STATIONS WITH TRAFFIC)

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At this time I will open the net for any additional informal traffic, questions, or comments.

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All stations wishing to check-in late, or stations with anything else for the net, please call now.

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This is <CALLSIGN>, Net Control Operator for the Louisa County ARES Net.

We will close the net and thank all operators for checking in. This net does meet every Sunday evening at approximately 8:45 pm. Again thanks to everyone for checking-in. This is <CALLSIGN>, net control operator, now clear and returning the repeater back to normal amateur radio use, 73.

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