The Net

[almiz]

Hello Folks,

Guess I am always a day late and a dollar short. I know the Eastern Net is still going every Sunday. What happened to the National Net? Lack of interest?  New schedule in development? Gone forever?

Thanks,

Al                  WRKF434

 

 

[WRWB509]

Bumping this question.  Is the National Net gone?

 

[JeepCrawler98]

Yup

[dugcyn]

heck I missed this.

we have a local net where i am. can only imagine what a national net on GMRS would be like.

just a guess it would be unmanagable???

still sorry i missed that pile up. dont take that wrong, it would be a good thing just HUGE.

[JeepCrawler98]

36 minutes ago, dugcyn said:

heck I missed this.

we have a local net where i am. can only imagine what a national net on GMRS would be like.

just a guess it would be unmanagable???

still sorry i missed that pile up. dont take that wrong, it would be a good thing just HUGE.

At first, yep, but we changed it so check in process was delegated to the local regional nets to queue people in line for the National nets (which is why they occurred before the National, the check in for National was handled by the regionals) - so it was a fairly efficient process to run through in the end.

We just ran out of manpower to run the National net, especially with the main local groups growing like crazy and requiring more and more attention, and while it played a decent role in drumming up interest in the various GMRS repeater networks (especially when linking was the shiny new thing on GMRS) it kind of just lost its value and steam after a while.

Edited February 17, 2023 by JeepCrawler98

[dugcyn]

well my hat is off to all that would run such a thing. Our northwest GMRS net is growing (ebbs and flows) but the people running it are tops in my books. it is a comitment and they deliver.