Hello. Sort-of Newby here. Ive participated in a few check in nets but in order to get a good connection with one ofthose specific repeaters I have have go out of my way to travel outside of city limits, the other net I've participated in, it was told that my signal was loud and clear, but most other participants were awfully far away and the signals I was receiving were awful. Not too terribly far from my house is a great repeater that covers a nice area of my city. I have permission to operate on said repeater, but there's been almost no traffic for months, other than two instances I was able to hear transmissions. My question is, how does one go about creating a local net? Is it as simple as hopping on the frequency every Monday afternoon and simply declaring "Welcome to this repeaters new net, we are now taking check ins from yadda yadda..." or rather is this something I should contact the repeater owner about, find people in the local area to create a communications group before bringing the net on air for the first time? What have your experiences been?
