Relaying traffic on a Simplex Net

[KE5TTU]

Fellow hambones, Our stake conducts regular nets over local 2m repeaters, but once a quarter we do a simplex net. Our boundaries are too large for all stations to be heard on such a net. Does anyone have a recommendation for relaying traffic in such cases? Maybe more than just a passing idea, but an established procedure that has proven effective. Thanks in advance.

[KI6LTS]

I am interested in the same info.

[wb7sgl]

My only idea would be to coordinate Ward nets, pre-distribute the announcements to the Ward net controls and have them each hold a simplex net on the hour on different frequencies. At half past the hour, call a stake net where the Ward specialists report the results of their respective net's.

-Rob

[KF7ATL]

I live near Logan, UT. Our local Bishop's Storehouse net is operated twice a month, and uses a simplex frequency. The net control station has his residence on the East side of the valley and sometimes he is shadowed so that he can't always hear the stations in the North end of the valley. There is a station on the West side of the valley with a beam antenna who has very good coverage of the valley. She can often hear those in the North end even when the NCS can't. Therefore, NCS uses her, and a few others, as relay to check in those he can't hear. Knowing that he won't be able to hear them, he asks her to call and get their check ins.

Hope this helps.

Garth, KF7ATL