The United States Traffic Net (USTNET) is a directed net, having a Net Control Station (NCS) and NCS appointed relay stations. We are a semi-formal group of amateur radio operator members but any operator can participate in the net as long as they hold a general or higher amateur radio license. We operate our net 7 days a week with Wednesday and Saturday nights being a LATE NET.
We combine a purpose of Working All States (W.A.S. and awards) with a social atmosphere and we encourage all newcomers to our net. The net is frequency agile, meaning that we don’t have a set frequency that we operate on so the use of the Netlogger application will enhance your net participation as it displays the frequency of operation, NCS, a list of all available stations on the net (with Names, Callsigns, locations) and an Almost Instant Messenger (AIM) window where a lot of additional social conversations are taking place.
For our members only, we allow the use of FT-8 to count towards the WAS award. FT-8 logging only counts towards WAS awards during the hours of an existing voice net for 90 minutes from start time. Check the schedule or the banner below for details of our voice net hours of operation.
FREQUENCY NOTE: * The USTNET 40m Net takes place at a frequency of 7.XXX MHz (meaning some frequency within the General Class License allocation of the band). Please check netlogger or the front page of this website for the current frequency being used. If you don’t have the netlogger application click the Netlogger Download button on our menu for more information.
TODAY - Monday
Time: 23:00 Z, The Net Control Station(NCS) scheduled is Bill, KF8BFT in Ohio for the USTNET 40m Net using SSB on a Frequency of 7.XXX MHz *. See the FREQUENCY NOTE * above.
TOMORROW - Tuesday
Time: 23:00 Z, The Net Control Station(NCS) scheduled is Carolyn, KC3VQP in Pensylvania for the USTNET 40m Net using SSB on a Frequency of 7.XXX MHz *. See the FREQUENCY NOTE * above.
