The SitRepNet Project
➊ It a set of tools and resources for HF digital mode nets and unaffiliated information sharing. It is “Neutral Ground” to coordinate among nets, avoid schedule conflicts, exchange ideas, establish standards, and encourage innovation. A major part of this is maintaining a current database of HF digital nets.
➋ The SitRepNet CommPlan provides a structure for efficient independent exchange of SitReps and related information using JS8Call and JS8Spotter. Tools for setting up impromptu nets with FLDIGI are also included.
➊ Click Here for the HF Digital Net Database
➋ Click Here for the SitRepNet CommPlan
06/25/2025 – CommPlan, Examples updated
Add @SITREP to your Groups
The @SITREP group designation is for unaffiliated SitRep reports and related information sharing. Organized net groups do some great things, and we encourage you to participate in them, but open, decentralized sharing of information among individuals and small local groups is just as important. Add @SITREP to your “Groups” to help make that happen.
The SitRepNet Communications Plan (CommPlan) provides the structure for a decentralized way to share Situation Reports (SitReps), arrange impromptu nets to address specific events, and collect and distribute information at the local level. The SitRepNet project is, in essence, establishing a common language to allow individual stations to more effectively communicate without using the command structure of a conventional net. It is a network, but not a net. Nets are important, and SitRepNet works alongside established organized nets to share information that formal nets cannot efficiently do while maintaining their core objectives. The closest SitRepNet comes to an existing group is GhostNet – a highly decentralized network.
Core principles of SitRepNet:
• SitRepNet is completely open. There are no “secrets – just in case”. There is no “membership” in a group, no cost, no
fees, and no records. All plans and resources are available to anyone by going to https://sitrepnet.com/.
• SitRepNet is decentralized. There is no “command structure”. It is designed to be used by any licensed ham radio
operator, and it depends on individual ham operators taking the initiative and doing what needs to be done.
• SitRepNet is not affiliated with any other group or organization. At the same time, SitRepNet encourages
participation in established nets. Those established nets serve vital functions that SitRepNet cannot provide.
• Simplicity is how an effective network can be built without a central command structure. It depends on individual radio operators combining their own initiative with the basic SitRepNet plan and making it all work together.
HF Digital Net Database
An important part of this project is building and maintaining a database of all current HF digital mode nets.
➤ Click here for the HF digital net database
