Before the netnet control
- 1.Open the room once, early in the day. Nets → 💬 net room. The room is created the first time somebody opens it, so this is the step that stops an empty room at start time.
- 2./topic tonight’s frequency and what you’re covering.
- 3./motd anything a latecomer needs to read on arrival.
- 4.Post your preamble, then /pin it so it stays at the top.
Running it
| /roll | The check-ins so far, in order. Read it back on the air. |
| /checkin | Log someone who is on the air but not on the site — or let them type it. |
| /topic | Change what the room says you are doing now. |
| /pin | Pin a line. /unpin clears it. |
| /who | Everyone in the room right now. |
| /mute sam 30m | Stop someone posting. 10m · 2h · 1d, or blank until you clear it. |
| /unmute sam | Clear a mute or a ban. |
Topic, motd, pin, mute and ban need coordinator rights on the room. If you run a net regularly and don’t have them, ask a coordinator.
After
Nothing to do. The session is archived on its own and appears under Net archive on the state page and at chatterback.net/nets/archive, which is searchable. Ordinary chat is cleared after 14 days; net logs are kept.
Checking ineveryone
| /checkin | Checks you in. One per night. |
| /checkin mobile in Owasso | Add where you are or what you’re running. It shows next to your name on the roll. |
| /roll | See who is in tonight. |
| /mon 146.940 | Show what you’re listening to, next to your name. |
| /me waves | An action line. |
| /73 headed out | Sign off. |
Useful mid-net
| /find 146.94 | Look up a repeater or node — callsign, name, town or frequency. |
| /heard KG5ABC S7 | Log that you heard a repeater, at that signal report. |
| /wx | Active NWS alerts for this state, shown only to you. |
| /bands | HF conditions from NOAA SWPC. |
| /report hail, 41st & Yale | A spotter report. Reaches members here, not the NWS. |
| /msg tom hey | A private message. Opens a Direct room. |
| /help | Every command. |
Mesh traffic in the roomwhere it applies
Where a net has the relay switched on, what is said on the mesh’s public channel appears in the room tagged air, and starts and stops with the net’s own schedule. Lines without that tag were typed on the site.
Only the public channel is ever relayed. Direct messages on the mesh are end-to-end encrypted and are never read, never relayed, and never stored.
The relay is one-way: typing in the room does not transmit on the mesh. Somebody on the air has to say it.
If something looks wrong
| Empty room | Open it from Nets → 💬 net room, which creates it. |
| No air lines | The relay is off for this net, or nothing has been said on the public channel yet. |
| /flag sam why | Quietly tells the coordinators. Nothing is posted in the room. |