AWARDS

Nets have been a part of amateur radio since its earliest days. The ARRL — the American Radio Relay League — grew out of nets that were established to relay messages via amateur radio from one part of the U.S. to another. Over the years, nets have served many purposes, including relaying message traffic in normal times and during emergencies or disasters, providing help and phone patches for travelers and sailors (before the days of ubiquitous cell phones and sat phones), reporting on weather and traffic conditions, and just bringing together people sharing common interests.

Some of these nets, or the organizations that have grown> and pointed me toward the information that follows.