On the Air NCS Training
Dave-WA4WES will resume his Saturday morning Net Control Station training each Saturday morning prior to the Northern Florida ARES Net on 3950KHz at 7:30A CDT/8:30A EDT. Dave will cover numerous topics including:
- Basic communication skills
- Learning to be an NCS
- Basic message handling
- Net control station overview
- Net operating guidelines
- Emergency activation
- Preparing for deployment
- Personal preparedness for emergency responders
- Equipment for emergency communications
- Set up, initial operations, and shut down
- Personal safety, survival, and health considerations
- Ultimate communication systems
- Survey of weather communications and sky warn
- Pre-hurricane season exercise – the Saturday before or after Memorial Day