Net Manager: Darrell Sheffield, KE4DHF

Traffic & Information Net

The Delta Club Traffic and Information Net meets nightly, execpt for the second Tuesday of the month, at 8 p.m. on the 146.82- repeater in Memphis, TN.  This net passes informal traffic as well as NTS traffic for the area.  It accepts announcements and amateur related swap shop items. (Items that are personally owned and possessed)  Prices are not allowed over the air, however interested parties may exchange other forms of contact such as phone numbers, e-mail address' or packet address' in order to negotiate price.  Check-ins are taken in three suffix groups, A-H, I-Q, R-Z.  If you are within range of the repeater, please consider checking in with us on the nets.  Anyone wishing to become a net control operator should contact the net manager and can down load the current net preamble from the following links.  For a small print, one page version click here.  If you would like a larger print multi-page version, click here.

Up until a few years ago, the club used to present Newsline for our local listeners on the Saturday evening net.  If you enjoyed newsline and would like to listen to it on the web, we suggest that you visit the official Newsline website and follow the appropriate links there.  Their content is in MP3 format but if you'd rather listen in RealAudio, you can still hear it courtesy of TAPR, (Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio) by clicking here.  It you do not have RealAudio but would like to have it, you can get it FREE from the RealAudio Website.

The Mid-South Skywarn Program is NOT a part of or under the direction of Delta Club, it's board of directors or members. The National Weather Service in Memphis has asked the club for permission to use the 146.82 W4BS repeater as the primary frequency for the Skywarn Emergency and Training Nets, therefore we chose to list it here.

Skywarn Training Nets are held every Wednesday night at 9 pm.  This net is a pipeline to pass Skywarn related information to weather spotters and other interested parties in the 57 county, 4 state area served by the NWS Memphis office.  Check-ins and relays from other local Skywarn nets are taken on a by-state basis.

Skywarn Emergency Nets are held anytime a severe weather watch or warning is in effect for any county in the Memphis County Warning Area.  For those people that wonder why there is not a net in progress when they think there should be, Skywarn nets are activated by the National Weather Service office and no one else.  When the lead forecaster feels that conditions are favorable for severe weather, or a watch or warning is issued for our area, they contact the Skywarn Coordinator and request that a net be started.  Nets also do not cease until the NWS feels that the danger has passed for all area of the CWA, and watches or warnings expire or are cancelled.

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