Spooktacular Giveaway 2019

 Entries will be determined by checkins, on both the morning and evening nets, starting on Saturday October 26 and continuing through the evening net on October 30th. A total of 8 nets. Rechecks on the same net do not count. • The grand prize winner will be announced on Halloween, Thursday October 31st at approximately 6pm PST.  

 A grand prize winner and a 1st and 2nd alternate will be selected. In the event of the disqualification of the grand prize winner, the prize will be awarded to the 1st and then the 2nd alternates in the order of their selection. • In the event of the refusal of the grand prize the prize will be awarded to the 1st and then the 2nd alternates in the order of their selection. • All US resident hams are eligible and will receive the grand prize delivered directly by Amazon.com.  

· There will also be drawn a second place winner. The second place prize will be subject to the same rules and regulations as the grand prize. The same two alternates will be used in case of the inability to award the second place prize to the original winner. 

 Foreign hams are also eligible with restrictions. If possible, the prize will be sent to the winner who is responsible for any additional postage, additional cost using Amazon.com in a foreign country or handling fees. If that is not possible or refused by the winner, an Amazon or eBay gift card, in the cash value of the prize, will be sent in lieu of the prize. If all of these options prove to be impossible or refused by the winner, the prize will be awarded to the 1st and then the 2nd alternates in the order of their selection. • Winners will be chosen by blind random drawing conducted by Sandie Higgins, XYL of Mike KM4OOC.  

 Net controllers and the spouse, children or siblings of net controllers are not eligible. • All disputes or irregularities will be settled by Kent Johnson W7AOR, whose decision is final. The contest schedule is subject to change without notice. • The grand prize is a new Yaesu FT60R radio and a Diamond SRH77CA whip antenna. If the grand prize is unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute a grand prize of like value. Value of the prize, in the event of a substitution or issuance of a gift card, will be determined by the value of the prize as available on Amazon.com US on October 31st 2019. • Good luck!  

· The second prize will be a gift card. Value and vendor to be determined by N7RHV, Dick, prior to the final drawing. 

The winners will be shown here after the drawing. 

 The purpose of these Nets is to promote Friendships around the world through daily communication using Amateur Radio.   To foster the ham radio arts and most of all have fun while doing it 

 We want to thank Kent Johnson/W7AOR, of the Nevada Amateur Radio Repeaters Incorporated(NARRI), for the use of their systems for these nets.

The World Radio Network and World Friendship Nets are hosted by NARRI on the World Conference Server on Echolink.

NARRI provides and maintains the various repeaters that run the WRN/WFN System.
This starts with the Western Reflector which is one of many reflectors on the Echolink system. NARRI Western Reflector Channels 0, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are  channels that integrated with Echo link Conference Servers; this means  those IRLP Reflector channels are digitally linked to a unique Echo Link Conference thus allowing nodes on Echo Conferences to talk to nodes on specific IRLP reflector channels.  
The Western Reflector has 10 channels (as do all reflectors).              
The WRN/WFN systems are hosted on channel 1.
The NARRI web site (narri.org) has a list of the various repeaters (7 in Vegas)
The NARRI site also has a list of the channel assignments on the reflector.
Channel 4 is the Hi-Gate conference.
The Las Vegas repeaters are on channel 4 most of the time. 

(447.000on Blue Diamond is primary)
They switch automatically to channel 1 twice a day for the WRN/WFN nets. 

This includes the UHF repeater in Pahrump. (449.750)
There is a VHF repeater in Pahrump that is manually switched to various IRLP nodes.

There is considerable cost to provide all these activities. 

Consider donating to NARRI. See the NARRI website.

A Message From The Manager:
Greetings from Michigan.
Most of us have opinions that we feel passionately about when it comes to politics or religion.
There are many forums where those topics are appropriate and even encouraged.
However, the World Radio Network and the World Friendship Net are not included  in those forums.
It is our desire to keep the *WORLD* Conference a fun place for ham radio operators along with family and friends who may be listening.              
Ham radio should be a place where we can avoid controversy and drama        
and it is important that we all work together to make sure the *WORLD* Conference is free of political and religious confrontation.
While I respect the right of everyone to have their own views on these subjects,
as Net Manager I must insist that those views be kept off the air the *WORLD* Conference.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. 73 for now.

Lee DeRosa Net Manager/ *WORLD* Echolink Conference/IRLP 9251.

Part of the western reflector

There is a lot of exciting things happening thru out the year on the Echolink *WORLD* Conference server/IRLP 9251.

We are always looking for net controllers. 

Being a net controller is a great opportunity to get to know the ham radio community here on the world conference server, so give it a try.

Contact any of the admins for more info. or download the PDF files at the bottom.

If you have questions, feel free to email any of the admins.