I've heard, been a part and conducted Radio Nets since earning my license.
My experience has been, oner this time, that nets are all the same. Same script, same people, same amount of time, same nothingness.
In this area, the preamble, announcements, checkins and the net in general are almost identical. The same people conduct the same boring nets, announcing their call signs, name, location and the majority of the time this is followed by "No Traffic."
Frankly, I think people would fall over if anyone actually had "traffic" for the net. Shudder to think anyone was actually paying attention to the net other than to hear their call sign or regurgitate "No Traffic" if you have no traffic for the net, why not speed things up for the checkin process and simply acknowledge your call sign instead?
For this reason I find Nets, boring, repetitive and severely lacking in content...again, at least in this area. Most local nets are dominate by the same HAMs and their herd roaming from repeater to repeater all announcing "No Traffic" and then continuing on to the next Net, sometimes an hour or even a few minutes apart.
Consider this, while this bunch persists in announcing "No Traffic" I have yet to get a response from any if one calls CQ on that repeater, perhaps they're assembling their "Traffic" or "No Traffic and are too busy to key their mic and throw out a reply.
Many repeaters, no response. Perhaps it's because they actually have "No Traffic" for me?
Warm up your radio, it's time for the No Traffic Net.
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