Reports, ICS-309, and exports
A closed net’s toolbar carries four separate downloads, plus a fifth page of its own. None of them require reopening the net, and none of them affect the record — pulling a copy a second time doesn’t re-send anything.
- Export downloads the raw check-in list as a CSV: every field the net collected, one row per check-in event (including rechecks), in the timezone your own profile prefers. Like the ICS-309 and the Report, anyone can download it; a visitor who isn’t signed in gets the same copy with email addresses and phone numbers in free-text fields hidden.
- ICS-309 downloads the check-in and chat log formatted as an official ICS-309 Communications Log, as a CSV.
- ICS-309 PDF downloads the same log as a form-accurate, printable PDF.
- Report opens the full Net Report page, described below.
ICS-309 export is available on any closed net regardless of whether that net turned on the Enable ICS-309 Communications Log format toggle — that toggle only decides whether the automatic closing email uses ICS-309 formatting. The toolbar buttons here are a manual download either way.
Keeping spam out of the record you hand to a served agency
The ICS-309 log is the copy that leaves your group and reaches a served agency, so it needs to stay clean even when a check-in doesn’t. Under ARES & EmComm Features when creating or editing a net, Hide muted stations from ICS-309 is on by default: once net control net-mutes a station for spam or disruption, that station’s chat messages are left out of every ICS-309 output — the CSV, the PDF, and the automatic closing email — without deleting anything from the net’s own chat log. Nothing else about the net record changes: the station’s check-in still appears, and the plain check-in export and net-log email are unaffected. Muting a station is done from the chat panel; see Net control for how.
The net report page
This page pulls together everything about the net into one document: check-in statistics, a map, station-to-station coverage (if the net used it), the full chat and activity log, and the ICS-309 log, all in one place. Export PDF saves the whole thing as one file. Export PNG instead saves each section as its own image, sized for pasting into a newsletter or a social media post, rather than one long page. Each image carries a small footer crediting ECTLogger with the site’s address, so anyone who sees the post knows where it came from.
This page needs no sign-in to view — callsign and licensee information are already public via the FCC’s own license database, and free-text fields are redacted for a signed-out viewer the same way the check-in list and chat already are. That makes the link safe to hand to an emergency coordinator, a club newsletter editor, or anyone else who needs the record but doesn’t have (or need) an ECTLogger account.
Who automatically gets the closing log by email
When a net closes, ECTLogger emails the log to:
- the net’s manager, if their own notification preferences have net-close emails on;
- anyone explicitly subscribed to the schedule the net came from, with the same preference on;
- and every active NCS, Logger, or Relay on that net itself, again subject to their own preference — so staff who ran the net get a copy even if they never separately subscribed to the schedule.
Each recipient gets ICS-309 formatting if either the net turned it on or that recipient’s own profile prefers it.
Related
The export used to hand a net’s radiograms and RRI/weather strips to a receiving station is covered in the traffic pages under Net control. Bringing a net’s history in from outside ECTLogger, rather than exporting one out, is Importing check-ins.