HOTG via ANSRVR · every Thursday from 0000Z
#APRSThursday, in one room
The busiest net on ANSRVR runs all day and lands in your packet log the same way everything else does — interleaved with beacons, telemetry and passing traffic. APRS Connect gathers it into a single thread instead: the check-in clock at the top, the roster underneath, and every post in the order it arrived.
Free to install and use over APRS-IS — nets included. APRS Connect Pro adds radio links, offline maps and more: $3.99/month or $29.99/year, after a 7-day free trial.
The room
A net room is an ordinary conversation thread, except that it collects a whole ANSRVR group rather than one station. Posts are attributed to the operator who sent them, so a relay reads as the person who wrote it and not as the bot that carried it. An RF/internet toggle sits at the top if you want to see only what came in off the air.
Check in, and stay checked in
An ANSRVR subscription lasts twelve hours — that is ANSRVR's rule, not the app's — so a net that runs a full day outlasts a single check-in. The room shows what state you are actually in: Checked in with the time remaining, and a renewal that has been sent but not yet acknowledged says exactly that rather than claiming success it cannot see. Renew holds the subscription for another twelve hours; Leave unsubscribes, and both report their own send status, because APRS gives you no other way to know.
Who has been heard
The roster lists the operators heard in the net and how many posts each has made. It covers the current check-in only, which matters for a weekly net running into the same room week after week: last week's roster is not this week's, and checking in again starts the list over.
Logged on the net list
#APRSThursday keeps a published log through APRSPH, the net's logger, which is also in the app's service directory. When APRSPH confirms your check-in the room says Logged on the net list — so you can see you are on the published log rather than assuming it. APRSPH also accepts a quiet check-in that is logged without relaying to the whole group, and the room shows that as its own state so it doesn't read as a check-in that failed.
And the rest of it
Nets are one thread kind among several. The app also does direct messaging with per-message delivery state, the APRS service bots as guided screens, a vector map with downloadable offline regions, a searchable packet log, and radio links over Bluetooth, BLE, USB, TCP or a built-in audio modem. The features page lists all of it, and Groups & nets covers this screen in full.