Region 5 Ham Radio Traffic Net Needs Operators

The Region 5 Traffic net covers the following State sections:

Alabama, Arkansas, North Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Texas, South Texas, and West Texas

I serve as net control for the Tuesday and Thursday afternoon nets, and find that due to a lack of section operators, we often have traffic we can´t move. Most often we have shortages of ham operators in every one of those sections except Louisiana.

Traffic handling is a scary proposition for operators who haven´t ever done it, I know. However with just a little practice (practice you get by simply listening at first) you can go a long way in alleviating fear.

The ability to send and receive traffic is invaluable in crisis situations. That said, you will feel immense pride when you pass important health and welfare traffic.

Granted, most traffic sent on traffic nets is somewhat less than priority, it is appreciated none-the-less by both the sender and the receiver. When the recipients are called on the phone and given a message he/she is quite impressed and often express their gratitude.

To sum this up, I challenge all you general class ham operators to show up on the Region 5 traffic net! Listen to how it is done then GET INVOLVED! We need you on the air.

The Region 5 net meets Monday thru Saturday at 10:30am on 7.280 mhz (for cycle 1) and 3:30pm on 7.243 mhz (for cycle 2). All times are Central Time Zone

On Sunday the time for cycle 1 is changed to 1:30pm.

Thanks, and I´ll see you on the net!

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