Indiana Ham Radio Nets

A "net" (short for network) is a scheduled on-air gathering of amateur radio operators who meet on an agreed frequency or digital talkgroup at a set time. A station called the Net Control Station (NCS) directs the contact, taking check-ins one at a time. Nets are used to pass formal message traffic, share information, practice emergency communication, or simply socialize.

Every Indiana net we know of is on this page. The HF nets are listed below, because HF is the one band where the whole state is in range. Everything else — the VHF and UHF repeater nets that make up most of the week — you find by distance: search by ZIP code or county.

📅 Prefer a calendar? See the weekly Indiana net schedule — every net, statewide and local, organized by day and time.

Or put them in your own calendar.indianahamradio.com/calendars/indiana.ics is a subscribable calendar of the statewide nets, every Indiana hamfest and every exam session; every county has one of its own at /calendars/{county}.ics carrying that county's local nets — delaware.ics, for instance, and the link is on each county page. Subscribe once and it stays current; each net recurs on its real rule, in the real time zone of the county it meets in.

Find a net near you

Local nets are the ones you will actually check into on a weeknight. Search by ZIP code, or pick your county if you would rather. Results are sorted by distance, nearest first, and reach across county lines — a repeater two counties over is often a better signal than the one at home.

Statewide HF nets

These are the statewide list because of physics, not policy. An 80 meter signal refracts off the ionosphere and comes back down across the whole state, so a net on 3.5 or 3.9 MHz can be checked into from Hammond or from Evansville. A repeater net cannot — it covers the counties its antenna reaches and no more, which is why the rest of Indiana's nets are found by distance in the search above.

Times shown are Eastern Time (most of Indiana observes Eastern Time). Schedules and frequencies change — confirm with the sponsoring club or the ARRL Indiana Section before counting on a net.

• Indiana Section CW Net (QIN)Daily, 8:00 PM ET · 3.535 MHz · CW Section traffic net operated in Morse code for NTS message handling.
• Indiana Slow CW Net (ICN)Daily, 7:00 PM ET · 3.535 MHz · CW Slower-speed CW traffic net; good for newer CW operators building skill.
• Indiana Digital Traffic Net (IDTN)Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM ET · 3.576 MHz (winter) / 7.080 MHz (summer) · Digital Digital-mode net for passing message traffic across the section.The section marks this net temporarily inactive — check before counting on it.
• WVARA HF NetSaturday, 9:00 PM · 3.679 MHz (+/-10kHz) LSB · SSB · run from Vigo CountyClub HF ragchew on 80 meters, run from Terre Haute and workable well beyond it.
• Indiana Section ARES HF NetSunday, 5:00 PM ET · 3.900 MHz (winter) / 7.280 MHz (summer) · LSB Statewide emergency-communications net for the Indiana Section ARES.
• Indiana Section ARES/Emergency NetSunday, 8:00 AM ET (4th Sunday of the month) · 3.910 MHz · SSB The entry adds that the net also meets when needed. It is a separate registration from the Sunday evening Indiana Section ARES HF Net.
• Indiana Traffic Net (ITN)Daily, 8:30 AM & 6:00 PM ET · 3.910 MHz (morning session 3.910 to 3.912 MHz) · LSB Statewide phone net for handling formal message traffic and check-ins.
• IDHS AUXCOMM HF NetThursday, 7:30 PM ET (1st & 3rd Thursdays) · 7.250 MHz (summer) / 3.920 MHz (winter) · SSB HF session of the state AUXCOMM net, half an hour ahead of the 147.210 net in Indianapolis.

Statewide nets on linked networks

These meet on a talkgroup or reflector rather than a frequency. The network does the reaching, so like the HF nets they are open to the whole state — from any repeater or hotspot connected to it.

• Indiana Statewide D-STAR NetThursday, 8:00 PM ET · Reflector REF024 Module B · D-STARStatewide digital-voice (D-STAR) net for Indiana operators.
• Indiana Statewide DMR Information NetTuesday, 8:00 PM ET · Talkgroup 3118 (Indiana Statewide) · DMRStatewide DMR net sharing news and information for Indiana DMR users.
• Crossroads DMR NetMonday, 8:00 PM ET · Talkgroup 31189 (Crossroads) · DMRWeekly net on the Crossroads DMR network, which links repeaters across Indiana.
• ARRL Indiana Section ARES DMR NetTuesday, 7:00 PM ET · Talkgroup 3118 (Indiana Statewide) · DMR
• NET050 Indiana Packet NetContinuous · 145.050 MHz simplex · PacketA 24/7 packet and Winlink frequency rather than a net that convenes at a time, which is how its own entry describes it.
• Net220 Indiana Packet NetContinuous · 223.600 MHz · PacketA 24/7 packet and Winlink frequency rather than a net that convenes at a time, which is how its own entry describes it.

A note on a few of these

The Indiana Section CW Net (QIN) is listed by the ARRL Indiana Section as a daily evening session at 8:00 PM ET on 3.535 MHz; a long-running morning QIN session at 8:00 AM ET is also widely published by traffic handlers. The Indiana Digital Traffic Net (IDTN) uses Olivia/MFSK digital modes near 3.576 MHz (winter) / 7.080 MHz (summer) but has at times been marked temporarily inactive on the section site — check before counting on it. The Indiana Statewide DMR Information Net on Talkgroup 3118 is reachable across BrandMeister, Crossroads, and other linked DMR networks. Talkgroup 3118 is the preferred talkgroup for wide-area DMR within Indiana. The exact D-STAR reflector/module for the statewide D-STAR net has changed over the years — confirm the current reflector on the D-STAR Info net list before connecting.

Where this list comes from

Nets are compiled from what clubs publish about their own nets — a club is the authority on its own affairs — and every entry in the data file says where it came from. A source and sourceUrl name somebody else's publication: the club that runs the net, or the club that lists it. A transcribedFrom means something weaker and says so — that the entry was copied from a page of this site, back when each county page carried its own nets, and has not been checked against the club since. This site is never a source for itself.

Several of the East Central Indiana nets come from the Muncie Area Amateur Radio Club's Area Nets page, which the club maintains for about ten counties around Muncie. The statewide HF nets come from the ARRL Indiana Section's own net list.

Run a net we are missing, or see something wrong? Email the correction and it will be fixed.

Authoritative Indiana sources

• ARRL Indiana Section (inarrl.org) — official source for Indiana traffic and ARES net schedules. See the Traffic page for the HF traffic-net table and the Indiana Section ARES HF Net details.
• Indiana Digital Ham Radio (idhr.info) — the reference for Indiana DMR, P25, D-STAR, and Fusion networks, talkgroups, and the digital nets that run on them.
• BrandMeister Talkgroup 3118 (Indiana Statewide) — details and net schedule for the statewide DMR talkgroup.
• W9WIN Linked Repeater System — central/southern Indiana linked analog and digital repeaters carrying area conversation and service traffic.
• Muncie Area ARC — Area Nets, Blue River Valley ARS — Area Radio Nets and Wabash Valley ARA — Area Nets — club-maintained schedules of Indiana HF and regional nets.

Net directories & listings

• NetFinder (netfinder.radio) — searchable directory of ham radio nets by band, mode, and location, with a "nets happening now" view.
• ARRL Net Directory Search — the national ARRL directory of registered amateur radio nets.
• D-STAR Info Net List — directory of D-STAR nets with current reflectors and modules.
• National Silent Key Archive (SK listings) — archive honoring deceased amateur operators (Silent Keys / SK). Local SK lists are also kept by many Indiana clubs in the clubs directory.