The net starts like this:


	CQ CQ CQ MSN / KE3FL (call)  MSN IS THE MARYLAND SLOW NET WHICH


	MEETS AT THIS TIME DAILY FOR TRAINING TRAFFIC HANDLERS AND TO PASS


	TRAFFIC X ALL ARE WELCOME X MSN QND
	                               (QND = This is a Directed Net)


	PLEASE QNZ  V V V V V              QNN  KE3FL/PHIL X MSN
          (QNZ = tune up on me now)   (QNN = Net control station is)


	QNA MDD REP K
	(QNA =  specified station check-in please)

	At this point the MDD rep will check in with or without
	traffic.  Then the net control station (NCS) will ask for
	any other checkins as in:

	MSN QNI K
	   (QNI = All others wishing to check-in come now)

    At this time send one letter (I like to send an L, as in
    ke3fL) If the NCS selects/hears your letter he/she will echo
    it back.  That is your permission to give your entire
    callsign and to tell the NCS why you're checking in, as in
    one of the following:

	L  L  de KE3FL ge Bob QRV TNG MSG NR 4 K
	     (from KE3FL good evening Bob check me in [QRV = I am ready for]
	      training message number 4 - back-to-you.)


	The rest you will learn as you receive the training
	messages.  Good luck and enjoy.  You'll have guaranteed
	QSO's every time you check-in with people who are very good
	at sending CW at your speed.  You'll find your cw speed
	increasing without even realizing it.


	The Maryland Slow Net meets every day at (19:30) 7:30 PM
	local time on or about 3.563 MHz.  Everyone is welcome to
	train with them.

	I strongly recommend it as an excellent way to learn code,
	and for learning to become a traffic handler.

	MSN is not the only slow net we can hear and participate in,
	I heard one called MCSS - "Mass/Conn Slow Speed" at about
	9PM on 3.715 MHz.

	So, if the 7:30 PM time slot does not fit in with your
	schedule, perhaps the time of one of the other "local" slow
	nets would.

	Once you become proficient at code you can move up to the
	faster speed nets such as MDD (the Maryland-DC traffic net)
	which is held twice daily at (19:00) 7:00 PM local time for
	outgoing messages, and again at (22:00) 10:00 PM local time
	for incoming messages.

	All slow net traffic goes though the MDD rep (remember MDD
	rep was the first one requested to check in when the slow
	net started) and gets delivered to the faster speed nets to
	pass to the rest of the country.