Highland Lakes ARES NET SCRIPT 3.2 
HL-ARES® Net Script (modified 08/09/2020 by K0YA)
This is ____________  : CQ – Good evening and welcome to the Highland Lakes Amateur Radio Emergency Services Net. 
If there are stations with EMERGENCY or PRIORITY traffic for the net please identify with your call sign and when requested, pass your traffic. Please Call NOW.
[If any, check them in and pass traffic immediately]
If you have emergency traffic at any time during the net please announce with BREAK BREAK.  You will be immediately recognized by the net control to pass your traffic.
This is a directed net, sponsored by the American Radio Relay League and the Highland Lakes Amateur Radio Club. It is held weekly on Sunday Night at 2030 hours local time on a frequency of 147.020 MHz (tone 88.5 Hertz) courtesy of the repeater trustee, KC0TA. Our Back Up Repeater is 145.390 MHz (tone 103.5 Hertz) courtesy of the repeater trustee N5KUQ. This net is a local net of the National Traffic System (NTS).
This week, net control is ______________. My name is ______________________.
Tonight, back up net control is ____                  __. Will our backup check in now.
Our practice is not to unkey the microphone PTT and not to leave a space when identifying your station.
When checking in, please use standard ITU phonetics.
Please join us monthly for our club meetings. Our meetings are typically held on the last Friday of the month at the Marble Falls EMS station at 1830 hours local time.
Due to the continued need to stay safe from COVID-19 we are holding our monthly club meetings via a ZOOM Conference. 
The Club also holds a 7:30 AM Monday Zoom RagChew Session.  This session is open to anyone who would like to participate. Discussions are informal and are open to all relevant topics and questions.  If you want to learn more about Amateur Radio and ARES, this is the place to be.
Dan Garcia, N5EER schedules our ZOOM meetings and sends out invitations via our HLARC Mail List.  If you are not getting these meeting notices, please inform the net and we will get you added to the mail list.
Visitors are always welcome at our meetings and on this net.  
The function of this net is to provide training and experience in directed net operation as preparation for handling emergency communications for our served agencies in Blanco, Burnet, and Llano and Counties.

The Net will now recognize formal traffic.
Any stations with Emergency or Priority traffic please check in now.
Stations with formal message traffic please identify now.
Stations with training please identify now.
Stations with announcements please identify now.
Liaison stations from other ARES, EMCOM or NTS units please identify now.
[Call back stations with announcements, formal traffic and liaison stations. Ask liaison stations if they have any business for the net.]
[During an extended NET, Net Control should ask about every three – five minutes for additional check-ins and emergency/priority traffic.]
We will hold any Training after all check-ins to the net. Members are asked to remain on frequency until the training session is completed. After any training session(s) we will open the net for your comments on any topic.
At this time HL-ARES and HLARC members and visitors are welcome to check into the net. Please use standard ITU phonetics and be recognized individually. Call now.
[Call back stations with training or any other remaining business items.  If none proceed to the informal net.]
This completes formal ARES Net Business.  The NET is now declared INFORMAL and is open for comments by all club members and guests.
Comments are invited from all check-ins. [This allows radio checks for all. Recognize each check in individually.]
[After comments are completed ask again for additional traffic and for additional check-ins]
Any stations with Emergency or Priority traffic please check in now.
Are there any additional check-ins for the net this evening?
[Recognize additional check ins individually and ask for comments.

NET CLOSING:
[Confirm check-ins and any other items for the required documentation with the net backup]
Thanks to ____            _ [Back-up NCS] and to all participants for support of your community and ARES. Your participation is valuable preparation for a communication emergency.
This is _______________ closing the Highland Lakes ARES and Amateur Radio Club NET at [______] local time.  This repeater is now open to regular amateur activity.