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Worked-All-Arkansas
Net and Award
**The Worked
All Arkansas net needs these counties activated
- Robin Norris, AD5JA,
assistant net control operator for the WAA Net, provides the following list
of counties that have never checked into the net:
Calhoun, Dallas, Grant,
Lafayette, Lee, Miller, Newton, Perry, Phillip, and Searcy.
- The following counties
have checked into the net only one or two times over the past year, and are
considered "hardly heard:"
Ashley, Bradley, Carroll,
Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia, Deshea, Hempstead, Lincoln, Little River, Logan
and Yell.
- Finally, there are several
counties that have checked in occasionally and are considered rare among the
WAA Net regulars:
Franklin, Fulton, Hot Springs,
Johnson, Miller, Sevier, Union and White.
If you know a ham in these counties with HF priviledges, the folks working to
earn our club's award would greatly appreciate your asking them to come up on
frequency. Most of the participants will provide generic QSL cards to stations
if they do not have their own. Also, if you have mobile HF gear and would like
to mount an Arkansas DXpedition, the neverheard counties would be a great start.
Net Info
The Worked-All-Arkansas
Net meets each Saturday evening on 3.9875 kHz at 7 pm central time (or 0100Z
on Sunday), or immediately following the Arkansas Razorback Net if past 7 pm.
The purpose of the net is to assist properly licensed operators everywhere in
working and confirming by QSL card all 75 Arkansas counties, and achieving the
WORKED-ALL-ARKANSAS award. This award is issued by ARKAN, The Amateur Radio
Klub of the Arkansas Northwest in Fayetteville. All information, worksheet,
and applicable forms are downloadable from the ARKAN website at: www.arkan.us,
or from the ARRL Arkansas Section website at: www.arkansashams.org.
OPERATING PROCEDURE:
a) Net introduction will be given, and then a list of check-ins will be taken.
When checking-in, please give call sign phonetically, name, city, and county
in Arkansas that you are located.
b) After check-in list is completed, the Net Control Station will go down list.
When it comes your turn, you will be allowed to make 2 good calls to any other
station on the Net. (TIP: It’s a good ideal to have pen and paper ready
when check-ins are taken by the NCS, so that you will know who you wish to make
calls to when your turn comes.)
c) SIGNAL REPORTS BETWEEN STATIONS WORKING EACH OTHER ON THE NET CANNOT BE RELAYED
BY THE NCS OR ANY PARTICIPATING NET STATION. TO MAKE A VALID CONTACT FOR AWARD
CREDIT, SIGNAL REPORTS MUST BE EXCHANGED WITHOUT THE AID OF A RELAY STATION.
All other information is permissible to be relayed, if necessary.
d) After all calls have been completed by stations on the Net list, the NCS
will close the Net until the next week’s Net.
e) It is permissible to make extra contacts if you so desire after the Net has
been closed, but again please try to exchange signal reports without the aid
of a relay station.
OTHER NET INFORMATION:
QSL cards WILL BE REQUIRED
for the WORKED-ALL-ARKANSAS Award as written confirmation that a given county
has been worked. If you need a card for county confirmation from another station
that you have worked, exercise courtesy by sending a Self Addressed Stamped
Envelope along with your own QSL to the station that you desire a card from.
ANY QSL from a past contact
with a station in any of the 75 Arkansas counties is valid for the WORKED-ALL-ARKANSAS
Award, so long as the information on the card is complete, correct, and unaltered.
White-outs, strike-throughs, etc, will not beaccepted by the Award manager.
Questions or comments can
be made to the Net manager, Don in Springdale by sending an e-mail to: k5db@arrl.net.
All properly licenses amateurs
anywhere inside or outside of the state of Arkansas are welcomed to participate
in this NET, but all ARKANSAS STATIONS are especially encouraged to participate
from their respective county.
We hope that all available
Arkansas amateurs will participate in this Net as much as possible. It’s
a lot of fun, a chance to meet some new friends around and outside Arkansas
over the air, and be a rewarding experience for everyone involved.
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