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All righty, then we can go ahead and get rolling here.

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And I'll just again say, welcome everybody.

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Thank you so much for joining in today's session on the National Traffic System and the radiogram that we use to move traffic, or in this case messages, across the country.

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My fancy title is Section Traffic Manager, which is just a nice way of saying that I kind of oversee traffic handling here in the North Texas section and look for opportunities to help you folks learn more about traffic handling skills and keep an eye on the system to see if there's any improvements or changes or anything like that that we could do.

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So again, thank you so much for joining in.

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And I guess kind of a fun way to start things is talk about how I got started in traffic handling.

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It was many years ago.

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I was in Michigan at the time, and hence the eight in my call sign.

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And we were preparing with the county ARIES-RACES group as a combined group to hold a simulated emergency test.

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And when they were handing out assignments, they got to me and they said, okay, we need you to go to the hospital and use this radiogram to send in a request to the emergency operations center.

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And I just kind of said, I don't know what you're talking about.

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And so that started my journey into what is the radiogram format and how does it fit in the way that we provide public service and those types of things.

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And so from there, I've kind of built it up over time.

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And now I kind of oversee things and again, try to pass the knowledge along.

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So again, thanks so much for joining in.

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Let's see if this thing's going to move forward.

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There we go.

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So just to give kind of a quick what we're going to do during this time.

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Just a quick high level overview of the traffic system.

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I don't want to go into a ton of detail.

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It's boring.

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But I think if you have a good 30,000 foot view, that'll help.

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Kind of the skills that you gain from participating in traffic handling.

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And then we'll dive into the radiogram and its components.

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And then we'll have some hands-on practice and kind of talk about how traffic nets work and things if you want to join in on one of those.

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Again, if you have any questions at all while we're going through things, even if it's a... hey, I remember you talked about that in the radiogram header, but could you explain that one more time?

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Feel free to throw them in the chat and we'll kind of take those questions as they come in.

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All righty.

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So a quick overview of the traffic system.

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Essentially, we're an organized network of hams that move these messages across country and beyond and started in 1914-1915 as the formal system for relaying traffic across the country.

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This is the relay in American Radio Relay League.

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This is why the ARRL formed, was to move these messages across the country.

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And so if you get that random Jeopardy question of what is the relay in ARRL, I guess now you know the answer.

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But this is how the league got started.

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And since then, we've been continuously moving traffic across country and beyond.

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The types of things that we move, we'll start with the highest level of urgency, emergency traffic.

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And so these are the life and death type things.

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I need a generator now, or I need diesel for the generator in five hours, or the hospital is going to have a big problem, and I'm trying to summarize it.

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But those types of things.

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Also specific instructions like evacuate the area or those types of things.

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Thankfully, we don't get a lot of emergency traffic on the traffic system, but we can designate items as emergency to make sure they push through the system quickly and effectively.

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Then we have priority traffic.

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This is where time is important, but it's not quite the life and death.

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So maybe notifications on number of injuries or shelter will be established at this address at this time, those types of details.

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Then we go to welfare traffic.

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And during incidents, this is kind of the general use of the traffic system.

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I want to let my family know I'm okay, or I have family in that area, I want to know if they're okay.

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And so we'll move these welfare messages in and out of affected areas.

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And so think Puerto Rico with the earthquake, you can think Houston with hurricanes, and we just want to let family members know we're okay, that type of thing.

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We'll move those through the system as welfare traffic.

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And then the general type of traffic that we have go through the system, because thankfully, we're not in disasters all the time, is routine traffic.

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So these are kind of the well wishes, sometimes the welcome to the hobby, or happy birthday, Merry Christmas, those types of messages.

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And those messages help us test the system to make sure that we're ready to go if something happens.

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And it helps new operators build their skills.

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And it helps us keep practicing those skills to build that muscle memory so that when we do get into an incident, we're ready to go.

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We've already been running and we're well established.

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And we've got the rhythm and we can just kick into it and keep rolling in things.

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NTS is primarily US and Canada.

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And we do have the ability to move traffic internationally through the system overall.

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I know Peter dl4fn is in Germany, and he participates in traffic handling and will send messages across.

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We'll get them here in North Texas.

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I know he sends them to other areas to third party agreement supply.

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So you're not sending traffic to North Korea, as far as I know.

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And you can, you can send traffic on behalf of third parties, you don't have to be a ham to put traffic into the system or receive traffic from the system.

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But if you're going international, then the third party rules apply on those.

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Modes are generally what you would think voice, CW, so Morse code, and then digital, such as a digital traffic network, which I know with the way the hand bands have the HF bands have been, digital is really nice for punching through the conditions type of thing.

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But thankfully, here in North Texas, we have a lot of traffic activity.

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So the 7290 traffic net, which is a voice net, that's 7.290.

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Imagine that.

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A lot of activity, even with the way the bands are sometimes they'll run into that we couldn't quite move it.

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And you know, you have to kind of get the relay going between stations to make it happen.

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But thankfully, the conditions have been fair, I guess.

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Here's how a message would generally move through this system.

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So the way we stack this is we try to start things kind of the same way with when we handle disasters, we start and end at the at the local level.

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And so let me see if I can get my fancy laser pointer to work.

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So we'll start things here at the at the local net level.

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And then we'll work that traffic up to either region or area nets depends on how far it's going to travel, and have it jump across on those and then come back down and make its way back to a local net in the delivery area so that a ham in that local area can make make that delivery.

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And let me see if I can maybe clarify that a little bit better with an example of how something moves.

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And so let's say I want to send a message to a family member in Michigan from here in Texas, I go to my local net.

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And I say I have one piece of traffic that's headed to Michigan.

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And the net control station will work to find another traffic handler that can move it towards Michigan.

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And I'll talk about how the net control station kind of figures that out later.

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Once that person's identified, that other station will take that traffic from me and then keep it moving towards Michigan.

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And so in this example, which is a real world piece of traffic I sent, that station then relayed it over the digital traffic network to a traffic handling node in Indiana that is set up, you could kind of think of it like an email server, except there's no internet involved or anything.

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You're going over the air for all this.

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It goes to that node, and then that node hangs on to it saying, okay, I have this message stored that's on its way to Michigan.

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Station in Michigan connects to that node and checks, do I have any traffic that I could take to my area for local delivery, finds that there, then says, okay, I'll take it, it gets relayed to their station.

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And then in this case, that station happened to be five miles from my family member up there in the thumb region.

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And so hop on the phone, and they make that last mile delivery by phone.

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The vast majority of these are delivered by phone as the last mile.

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Can you do email?

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Yeah, but we like to have the personal touch for these kinds of messages, you know, the happy birthdays or things.

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Also gives a chance to explain, hi, I'm random amateur radio operator, and I'm calling you with this message, you know, kind of email would kind of get lost with that.

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And it also better reflects when we're in a disaster, and we're, you know, say we're sending that welfare message, hi, I'm okay.

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If you're on the receiving end, how would you prefer to get it?

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Would you like an email?

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Or would you like to have someone that calls and make sure that they know and say, hey, I got this message from your family member, it says that they're okay, they're at the shelter, you know, you have that personal touch and, and, and, and making sure that that message actually reaches the recipient,

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because if the phone call, you know, you get a busy signal or something, we try again, whereas with the email, we just kind of send it and, you know, then we don't know after that, unless they're nice enough to reply.

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So comment in the chat, that's why I got a call from a random ham when I got my license.

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So there are some traffic handlers that monitor the FCC database for new hams, they also will monitor for licenses, licenses that are about to expire, it just kind of depends on on how they want to approach it.

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And then they'll send the traffic, whether it's, you know, the welcome to the hobby, or your license expires on August 10, please be sure to renew if you haven't yet, those types of things.

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Those types of messages are good, because it helps introduce new hams to the hobby, to here's a whole nother facet of this hobby, right?

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There's a lot of different things you can do with amateur radio, whether it's, you know, doing digital, or FT8, or Morse code, or traffic handling, or, you know, emergency communications, Skywarn, or I just want to talk to France and know that I made it,

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or, you know, there's a lot of different things that you can do.

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And plus, I feel these messages help bring the personal touch to the hobby that, you know, we're all kind of in this, and we're glad that, you know, we're making those connections as hams.

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I know, you know, sometimes might only talk to another operator for a minute, but it's just cool to make that connection with other folks.

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But yeah, that's why you'll sometimes get that, you know, welcome to the hobbies and, you know, enjoy the fun and friendships you will make.

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You know, I've seen that piece of traffic enough times, I can, you know, write it in my sleep type of thing.

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If other questions or comments, again, feel free to throw them in the chat.

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We'll keep rolling here, though.

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So how does traffic handling help build your skill set as a ham ?

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A lot of it is just how you interact on the air.

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Whether that you're on a traffic net, or a SkyWarn net, social net, you know, information net, those types of things.

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With traffic handling, well, we'll start at the top here.

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Slow is fast, right?

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We're trying to relay this message across.

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And, you know, if we're in a real disaster scenario, and I could think like the awesome mud slide up in Seattle, where a giant wall of mud comes sliding down the hillside and takes out square miles of land, and now you have a big mud pile with houses and trees and cell antenna towers and,

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you know, all that in it.

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And you're out there throwing a wire in a tree, hopefully, if you've got one nearby, and you're doing things, probably doing it by pen and paper.

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And so if you speak too fast, right, and I imagine you're trying to write it down on the other end.

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We need six cases of water and 12 cots and five, you know, the other person is just gonna, okay, I give up.

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Slow is fast.

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I only have to say it once.

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If I go too fast, then you're gonna, I need you to say that again, or could you say this again, or that, and we're gonna burn more time.

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And in the meantime, you have all this other traffic that could be waiting to move, but it's having to sit there and wait, because you're having to repeat the message a few times in order to get it across.

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So whatever you think slow is, go slower than that.

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Also helps if you enunciate certain words, just part of that speaking clearly, we want to try and get it across the first time if we can.

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And then I like to view this lens under the lens of you're not reading it, you're sending it.

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And I think that just puts a whole different context on what we're trying to achieve with traffic handling.

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We want the radiogram as, you know, whether it's sloppily as I've written it on here, we want it to arrive like almost a Xerox copy, like 99% of what's filled out on this is what should appear at the other end when it gets there.

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We want it there word for word and letter for letter.

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So again, when I think of it, I'm not reading it to the other station, I'm sending it, I'm relaying it across to the other station.

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It also helps you build familiarity with participating in NETS.

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I know one of the fun parts on some traffic NETS is the NET control station will say, please check in with your call sign phonetically only.

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And then you get, well this is Kilo 8 Alpha Mike Hotel and my name's Aaron and I'm in North Dallas and I have no traffic, you know.

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We just want you to check in with your call sign phonetically only.

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So participating in these NETS, you start to tune in on what exactly are the instructions from the NET control station.

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I mean, that applies with SkyWarn NETS.

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I don't know how many folks have jumped in on SkyWarn NETS and you always get that one, that, you know, minimum reporting criteria.

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I only want to know about half inch hail or cloud rotation.

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And then you get the sirens are going off.

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No one cares, so to speak.

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You know, if they're going off, we already know there's a tornado warning there.

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Thanks for telling us the sirens went off, but we want to know about hail and we want to know about, you know, cloud rotation, right?

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And so, you know, you get that, you get that feel from the NET control station by listening and Brennan's got a great comment.

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Listen, listen, listen.

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I would even say that for any NET.

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Before you jump in and participate, listen to it for a bit.

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Get a feel for how it operates before you jump in.

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It just helps you get into the groove of it a lot faster if you get the feel for how that NET runs.

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And we'll go over that a little bit more in the, in the, how the traffic NETs run.

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ITU Phonetics, they're the gold standard.

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So Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Phosphorus.

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If you're on a local NET that's, that's focused on, on, on training as well as moving traffic, like we have here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, we have a two meter traffic NET happens twice a day.

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If you come in with a dog or a cat, you know, we'll, we won't hate it.

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But we will in time want you to build those ITU Phonetics.

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And if you're jumping in on a traffic NET that's like regional area, you're on HF and you're moving traffic, very much the gold standard.

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We're very much looking for ITU Phonetics.

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So this is a good way to practice those ITU Phonetics.

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ProWords.

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Say again, you're a traffic, or correction, or I Roger, you know, these types of ProWords not only apply to traffic handling, but they're, they're used generally in on air communications.

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So whether that's public safety dispatchers, if you've ever worked with, you know, police or fire, that type of thing, it's the same things.

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Can you repeat your traffic, please?

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Or, you know, that type of thing.

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Air traffic control.

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It's a good way to build your skills on phonetics before you get into the disaster.

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And we'll go over some of those ProWords in a bit.

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Alternate phonetics are frustrating.

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Always fun when you're working with the PD and it's Adam Boy King.

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And if you say, you know, Alpha Bravo Kilo, they kind of look at you.

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And they're like, sorry, I just used what everybody else uses.

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But yeah, Alpha Bravo.

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But it's, yeah, just, just, yeah, it's just fun.

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All right, let's keep going before I rattle on that any further.

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Brevity.

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So when we look at the blank radiograms, there are 25 spaces.

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And we want you to be quick and to the point.

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It's the same thing when you're, again, public safety, or if you're on a SkyWarnet, and you've got cloud rotation, you know, it's not time for a start.

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Well, I'm outside and it's windy.

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So I looked up and I saw the cloud spin funny.

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And I watched it, you know, get to the point.

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What is it?

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I'm at XYZ intersection and the cloud rotation has started and there may be lowering.

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Yeah, that's the crux of the message.

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And so same thing with radiograms.

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You know, if you can say it in five words rather than 10, well, then say it in five words, you know, that type of thing.

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Okay, don't know how many folks have dived into the Incident Command System, maybe as part of ARIES, Amateur Radio Emergency Service.

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Fun fact, that's actually sister programs.

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So National Traffic System and ARIES are our sister programs in ARL's public safety programs type of thing.

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If you're moving 213s over the air, the way I like to think of it is if I'm walking into the disaster, and I got to have someone sit down at the radio and handle moving those 213s, and I've got two options, I've got someone that's never moved anything ever,

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or I've got someone that's moved a bunch of radiograms to the traffic system, you know, who am I going to pick?

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I'm going to pick the person that's got the experience.

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And why is that?

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I love this quote at the top, when the disaster begins, the time to prepare ends.

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It's really been interesting watching, you know, like with the COVID-19 pandemic and folks, you know, what am I going to do to this?

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Like, well, we're in it now, so you're not, you're not preparing anymore, you are reacting, right?

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And so for folks that, you know, I know I get the tinfoil hat sometimes of why I have, you know, water and some, you know, awful tasting food that if I had to eat it, I would, but, you know, how do you get, you know, how do you prepare beforehand by practicing?

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Because once we're in the disaster, that's not the time to learn, that's the time to go.

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And so build those skills up before you get in there, if you can help it.

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Mistakes, we'll talk about that here.

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Any, any questions that you have, again, throw them in the chat, feel free to throw them in there.

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We'll keep rolling here.

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I like to say that smart mistakes are okay.

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When you go to learn, that's just part of it, you know, sometimes it's just, oh, I didn't quite understand that right, or that type of thing.

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So if you're on a traffic net, and you make an error, and you know it, then just correct it, you know, oh, correction, and that's a pro word, correction, and we'll go over that.

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Or if someone gives you some feedback over the error, you know, well, first, hopefully they're kind about it.

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But, you know, we're giving that feedback to help you tune your skills, so that you can jump in and have those skills built before we get into the disaster.

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And especially when I know there are new traffic handlers joining in on the traffic nets, and, you know, sometimes look at that.

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Aaron is just being cranky, because, you know, I want to get those habits built early.

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Because if you start to learn it wrong, and then we come back and try and well, this is actually how it should go, it's a lot harder to unravel all of that muscle memory you've built, versus if we catch it in the beginning.

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So when you, if you get started on a traffic net, and it's like, well, here's some feedback, that type of thing, we want to help you build that skill set right from the beginning, rather than having to come in later and go, well, now you need to, you know,

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change it, and then you're going to be the, you know, I keep forgetting, I keep forgetting.

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So we want to get that built right in the beginning as you get rolling.

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If there's one thing that I can have you walk away with, from this talk, without going too deep into the psychology world, you know, the biggest question I get is, I'm going to get on the air, and I'm going to get on the traffic net, and I'm going to make a mistake,

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and I'm going to sound stupid.

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We've all been there.

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I have been traffic handling for a bit, and I still make mistakes.

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And I like to joke that, well, I'm putting the amateur in amateur radio today, I made a mistake, right?

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And we just keep rolling with it.

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I acknowledge a mistake, and we keep rolling.

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And it's the same thing, if someone else jumps in, and there's a mistake, it is not the end of the world.

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This is how we learn and grow.

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We embrace something that's new.

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Hopefully, we try and build our base knowledge before we jump in, rather than jumping in blind.

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But, you know, when mistakes happen, that's when learning occurs, and that's how we build those skills.

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So, you know, if you have folks that, you know, how do I overcome that fear?

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Jump in.

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You know, that's the best advice I can give you is just roll with it.

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Okay, that's kind of the 30,000-foot view of the traffic system and kind of the skills you can get.

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This is a really good kind of the meat part of it.

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But I'll check with folks, any questions on that kind of 30,000-foot view?

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Again, I could go into the different, you know, what are different traffic nets and regions and that type of thing.

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But, you know, can be kind of boring as you're starting out.

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So, you know, I'll take an opportunity to fuel for a bit.

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And then if no questions, we'll jump into the radiogram.

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Mistakes are always...

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All right.

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So, the comment in the chat.

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So, for the recording that, you know, folks know.

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Our local ADS is also training that mistakes are always welcome.

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Yeah, we try to help folks learn and grow and that type of thing.

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And even, you know, maybe it's, let's just talk offline by email real fast and let me help clarify type of thing.

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Yeah, it's always... Our goals with training nets is to help folks build their skills.

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All right.

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We'll move into the radiograms.

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And again, any questions, just throw them in there.

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So, why radiograms?

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It's still the same thing.

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Why ICS-213?

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It's the general message form.

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It's the standardized message format that we're all using.

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So, whether the radiograms here in the U.S.

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or it's up to Canada or it's across to Germany or whatnot, it's the same form.

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And it allows us to effectively move the traffic across the board in a way that's traceable.

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And this is the one thing I really like about the radiograms versus the 213s.

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We have some things in the header and things to help track it and help to try and make sure words aren't lost as it moves in transit or things like that.

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But if we do have a radiogram that disappears into the ether, and it does happen, we can start to follow that message across.

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All right, who did you relay it to?

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And okay, you got it.

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And who did you send it to?

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And sometimes we'll send that follow-up and then suddenly the message appears at its destination.

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It's like, well, it got hung up somewhere and, you know, that type of thing.

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But we can follow them through if we need to.

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So, this is the form.

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If you've printed it out, we'll have you try and fill one out in a bit.

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But we'll walk through how this works first.

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A little bit of animations in here.

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And it's sort of smooth when it goes over online.

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So, hopefully, it's not jumping too bad.

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But, you know, for the conversation, it won't affect things.

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But, you know, okay.

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So, we'll break the radiogram into these blocks.

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And the first one is the roughest one.

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So, we'll spend a little extra time in it.

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And then the rest of them will be easier.

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So, the header, overall, just is what helps us track that message.

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You can think of it like the email header.

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Like, who's it from, who's it to, so to speak.

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But two gets its own spot on a radiogram.

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But this is what helps us to track these things.

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It starts with a number.

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And this number is assigned by whoever first fills out the blank radiogram.

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So, if I have one of these and I start filling it out, I would give it a unique number so that I can track it in my records.

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There's no standardized way of doing this.

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I started with one.

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And then my second one was two.

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And my third one is three.

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Some folks will go by the month.

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So, if it's March and it's their first one, they'll go 301 and the next one will be 302.

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And then when, you know, it's July, so 701, 702.

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It's kind of however you want to do it.

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And then you can reset them, you know, periodically if you want.

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So, maybe the first of the year, you go back to one.

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Some stations do it by month.

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Again, it's just kind of however you want to do it.

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I've been rolling with the same numbers for a few years.

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I'm at 390 something.

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And I might go back to one when I hit 500 or something like that.

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But again, this is just for your own records.

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This and everything else that we're going to talk about, aside from the little tracking items at the end, will all stay exactly the same as this moves through the system.

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So, your number will stay attached to this all the way through.

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And then if we have to come back and ask you a question, you know, we have a question about your number one, then you know how to go back in your records and do that.

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Precedence is... oh, here's a good question in the chat before I jump into precedence.

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Are we required to archive our messages?

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It is a good practice to hang on to them.

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And I would hang on to them for maybe one or two months.

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Now, this is for routine traffic.

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I would hang on to them for a month or two.

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Just in case there's that odd question, you know, one month is good.

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I think two is some extra insurance.

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And then you can discard them however you want to do that.

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I keep mine electronically now.

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I started with paper and I think that's a really great way to begin.

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I find that by actually having the physical page and filling it out by hand and things, I learn it better that way for me.

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And so, same thing with net controlling.

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When, you know, I started it was written down and I get the feel for it.

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If you start with software and then you wind up in the field and there are no computers and you're having to do it by paper and you've never done it by hand before, you're going to have a big learning curve versus if you build the skill with paper first and then transfer it.

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So, I would start with written documents and then hang on to them for about a month, maybe two, and then you can go ahead and, you know, recycle them, right?

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It's what you're supposed to do or, you know, that type of thing.

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That's a good question.

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Again, any others throw them in there.

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We'll continue precedence.

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This is back to that, you know, what's the urgency of this thing?

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Emergency, priority, welfare, or routine.

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When we fill out the radiogram, typically I'll just write R for routine.

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When I say it on the air, I say routine, but I'll write R.

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The only word that always gets spelled out is emergency.

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We want to call out the high level of importance of emergency traffic.

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So, the word emergency is always written out, but the others like priority, welfare, or routine, we just write their initial and we call it a day.

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Handling instruction.

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This provides some guidance on how the message should be handled as it moves through the system and also about delivery.

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I'm going to put them on screen.

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These are also in the handout if you happen to print it out.

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The most common one that you're going to see is Hotel X-Ray Golf, the last one, which basically says, please don't spend any money trying to deliver this.

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If you are going to have to spend money to deliver it, well then just cancel the delivery, but let me know.

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And that's what we mean by service originating station, is you send something back to whoever, you know, put that in the system to say, you know, unable to deliver or whatever that reason is type of thing.

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We'll go into that a little bit later.

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The one that is kind of despised in this list is Hotel X-Ray Delta, which is essentially real-time tracing.

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So if I introduce something with a Hotel X-Ray Delta instruction, what will happen is every time that message moves, those stations will need to send me a report on that movement.

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So I send it to someone else, they then relay it to the next station.

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At that point, that first station is supposed to say in a message back, okay, I relayed it to XYZ station at this date and time.

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And that station is supposed to send me something that says, okay, I got it from that first station at this date and time.

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And then when they move it on to the next station, the same thing happens again.

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Okay, at this date and time, I sent it off to that station.

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And then that station, same thing.

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At this date and time, I got it.

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And so every time it hops, it generates two messages back to whoever introduced it.

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It's great for tracking emergency things where you got to know that it's making progress.

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If it's a happy birthday, you know, type of thing, do we need that level of tracking on it?

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It generates a lot of traffic.

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If everything was sent with Hotel X-Ray Delta, there would be nothing but acknowledgements moving through the system.

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And so we reserve Hotel X-Ray Delta for those really urgent things.

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Or I've tried sending messages through and they're just not making it.

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I want to understand where the clog is.

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So let me trace this one and see what's going on.

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So I would only use Delta in extreme circumstances.

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So did I beat that horse?

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Good.

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Please don't use that one.

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It was really fun when it was used during field day one year.

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There was a lot of feedback on that group when they sent all their field day traffic with the tracer instruction on it.

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Does the reply go back down the chain or acknowledge to the originator only?

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So whether it's a Hotel X-Ray Delta, or let's say it's Hotel X-Ray Charlie, and you can use more than one of these.

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It's not like you have to pick one.

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You could do a bunch of them.

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Hotel X-Ray Charlie, report and date and time of delivery back to the originating station.

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You would write a radiogram back to whoever that radiogram was from with that information.

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And whether it goes back the same exact way that it came to you, or it goes through a completely different part of the system, it doesn't matter.

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It just starts making its way back to whoever introduced that piece of traffic.

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So yeah, it doesn't necessarily have to flow exactly back the way it came.

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It can work through the system through another channel.

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Okay, other questions?

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Throw them in the chat, please.

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Station of origin.

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This is effectively who's filling out the radiogram for the first time.

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So if you are filling out a radiogram to a family member, you are the station of origin.

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If you are filling out the radiogram on behalf of someone else that wants to put a message into the system, you are the station of origin.

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You are the first ham that is filling this in.

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So your call sign goes in the station of origin.

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And then back to that, you know, was it delivered or did I have a question?

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I know to come back to you, because you're the station of origin that brought this thing for the first time.

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And this station of origin will stay there through the whole journey.

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It does not change.

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None of this changes.

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Place of origin can be a little trickier.

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So we'll get to that in a sec.

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A station of origin is whoever is filling out the very first radiogram for that for the first time.

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The check is basically a way for us to see if any words disappeared or got added to the message.

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So it's a count of how many words are in the text.

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There are some shorthands we can use, and I'll go into those in a bit.

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If you use one or more shorthands, then we put A-R-L before the number to signify we're using shorthands in the message.

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But if you don't have any shorthands, then it's just, you know, count.

393
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You know, there are nine words in here.

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So the check is nine.

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And I'll show the example of that when I get some real traffic up on the screen.

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Place of origin.

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Okay, here's the curveball.

398
00:35:16,260 --> 00:35:20,980
This is the location of the person who authored the message.

399
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:26,880
So if this is you writing a message to a family member, then it is where you are, city and state.

400
00:35:27,460 --> 00:35:40,780
If it's for you're on the phone with somebody, like I'm here in Dallas, and let's say I'm on the phone with someone in Fort Worth that wants to send a message, and I fill in the radiogram, the station of origin is who?

401
00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:41,880
It's me.

402
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,700
I'm the one that's filling in the radiogram for the first time.

403
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:48,240
The place of origin is where?

404
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,500
Fort Worth.

405
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,820
It's the location of the person who's authoring the text.

406
00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:56,400
So that's the fun curveball.

407
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:02,060
Now, if you put, like if I were to put Dallas instead of Fort Worth, like the system will not implode.

408
00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:07,660
But the place of origin is whoever is is authoring the text.

409
00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:12,940
The station of origin is the first ham that's that's filling out the radiogram.

410
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,520
Time filed is optional, just like the handling instruction is optional.

411
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,720
But you should you should put the time filed.

412
00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:27,400
If it's emergency or priority or welfare traffic, we want to know the age of that in minutes.

413
00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:35,100
And also with the hotel x-ray Bravo instruction, which says, just cancel this if it's not delivered within so many hours.

414
00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,300
Well, I don't know how many hours went by.

415
00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:41,220
So definitely fill out the time filed for for those types of things.

416
00:36:41,220 --> 00:36:45,700
The traffic system uses universal coordinated universal time.

417
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:47,500
So UTC or Zulu.

418
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,240
If you don't indicate a time zone, then that's what's assumed.

419
00:36:51,380 --> 00:36:54,160
Universal time is what's assumed.

420
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,560
If you are going to use the time zone, then make sure you put it in there.

421
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:05,040
So whether that's central daylight time or eastern daylight time or that type of thing, then you'd put the time the time zone in there along with the time.

422
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,640
Very rarely, though, is the time filled in.

423
00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:11,440
The date, this is really easy.

424
00:37:11,460 --> 00:37:16,500
First three letters of the month and then and the date.

425
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:25,160
So, you know, January, I still say the whole word on the air, January 1-5, March 3, July 2-2.

426
00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:27,940
And notice how I give each number individually.

427
00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:29,600
The year is never included.

428
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:35,140
If you got a piece of traffic that's a year old, then you know, probably, you know, time to give up on it.

429
00:37:35,180 --> 00:37:37,400
But, you know, we don't need the year.

430
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,360
You know, these messages aren't that old.

431
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,180
And it just burns time, right?

432
00:37:41,180 --> 00:37:44,640
We want to get these moved as efficiently as we can.

433
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,280
So the year doesn't add any value.

434
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:47,740
So we don't bother with it.

435
00:37:47,740 --> 00:37:49,320
And again, UTC.

436
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:57,500
And same story, if you were to list a piece of traffic on a local traffic net, and, you know, it's 1030 p.m.

437
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,660
here in Dallas, it's technically the next day in UTC.

438
00:38:00,660 --> 00:38:04,540
But if I if I don't put tomorrow on it, the world, again, does not end.

439
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,880
But if we want to follow the rhythm of it, we would follow whatever universal time is.

440
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:12,620
Comment in there, thanks for clearing up place origin.

441
00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:14,460
Yeah, that's a good time, isn't it?

442
00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:20,180
All right, so here's how I would read the header on the air.

443
00:38:20,180 --> 00:38:23,140
And again, this comes down to some net personalities.

444
00:38:23,180 --> 00:38:29,440
And on the Dallas-Fort Worth two meter traffic nets, I'm going to read it like how we would do it on there.

445
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,080
You might find that your local traffic net is just a little bit different.

446
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:38,860
So again, listen to pick up that net personality is what I like to call that.

447
00:38:38,860 --> 00:39:03,220
But I would say this header just like this, please copy message number 312, routine, Hotel X-Ray, Gulf, Kilo 8, Alpha Mike Hotel, 1-2, Dallas, Texas, 2-1-4-5, January 1-5.

448
00:39:03,220 --> 00:39:09,000
Now notice I don't have to say, okay, the number is 312, and the precedence is routine, and the station of origin is it.

449
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,760
We're all using the same template.

450
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,600
So we all know the order of things.

451
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,280
We don't need to say the subject over and over again.

452
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,080
Again, we're trying to move these efficiently, so we don't need to burn time on that.

453
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:24,280
I did mention that two items are optional, the handling instruction and the time.

454
00:39:24,420 --> 00:39:27,000
So how would I read that if I didn't have those?

455
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,020
I just skip them.

456
00:39:28,020 --> 00:39:37,560
Please copy number 312, routine, Kilo 8, Alpha Mike Hotel, 1-2, Dallas, Texas, January 1-5.

457
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:43,120
Again, the other station will know that there is no handling instruction and there is no time filed.

458
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,320
It's one of those rhythm of the business type of things.

459
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:46,900
We know that those are optional.

460
00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:50,100
And so if you don't mention it, they're not there.

461
00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:52,000
And then we can keep moving with things.

462
00:39:52,260 --> 00:39:56,780
And comment, that's basically how the header is read here in Northern Virginia.

463
00:39:56,780 --> 00:40:09,660
A lot of this is, if you're really bored someday, there is a 400-plus page best practices PDF that I just hate.

464
00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:16,680
But if you really want to get in there and read it, there's a lot of reading you can do on traffic.

465
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,640
And it's all been built just based on things learned over time.

466
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,120
It's an excellent resource.

467
00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:26,760
But if I were to throw it at you and say, go read this 400-page thing, you're going to get lost.

468
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,720
So a lot of this is like the 80% what you're going to see the vast majority of the time.

469
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:41,900
But there is a best practices guide if you really want to get the big details on good traffic handling.

470
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,000
That's the header.

471
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,600
So that's the hard part.

472
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:47,660
We're through it.

473
00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:50,300
Any questions on the header?

474
00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:54,880
I will keep moving into the address part next.

475
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,260
But again, any questions, throw them in there.

476
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,760
The address is the destinations.

477
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:01,060
There we go.

478
00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:02,620
Yeah, methods and practices guide.

479
00:41:02,620 --> 00:41:04,020
Yeah, that's yeah, MPG.

480
00:41:04,020 --> 00:41:05,520
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

481
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:08,120
400 pages of fun.

482
00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,460
This is essentially like sending any letter.

483
00:41:11,460 --> 00:41:13,940
First last name, call sign if they have one.

484
00:41:13,940 --> 00:41:15,760
Again, they don't necessarily have to have one.

485
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:22,800
So if you want to send, you know, Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday to a family member that doesn't have a license, please do.

486
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,760
But first last name, call sign if they have one address, city, state, zip and phone number.

487
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,600
The last mile delivery is very much done by phone.

488
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,540
So we ask that you include a phone number.

489
00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:40,620
If you include an email, that is an option.

490
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,500
It removes that personal touch, but you know, some folks just don't want their phone number out there.

491
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:50,920
We'll still deliver it by email.

492
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,840
If you do include it, then you need to write it out.

493
00:41:54,360 --> 00:42:08,040
So like for this example, if it was jane.doe at example.com, then it's jane.doe at sign or at example.com.

494
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,260
We spell all of those things out.

495
00:42:10,260 --> 00:42:13,060
We don't put, you know, a period or anything like for that.

496
00:42:13,060 --> 00:42:14,580
Because again, you're relaying it on the air.

497
00:42:14,580 --> 00:42:17,360
So how do you read, how do you, how do you say a period?

498
00:42:17,780 --> 00:42:22,320
You know, I mean, you would spell it out to indicate there is a dot there.

499
00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:30,040
So here, let's send this one as an example to jane.doe, address and phone number.

500
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:34,640
And so I would read this like this.

501
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,140
I would say that this is to jane.

502
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,820
I'm gonna go a little faster just for sake of time.

503
00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:42,400
I would pause to give the other person time to write.

504
00:42:42,400 --> 00:43:05,480
So this is going to jane.doe, I spelled delta oscar echo, amateur call alpha romeo one tango, address figures one two three , mixed group eight five tango hotel, street, direction southeast, some town wisconsin, zip figures zero zero one two one, phone figures three three zero,

505
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:10,160
five five five, four four two four, break.

506
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,840
And a break is one of those fun ones.

507
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,880
We'll talk about that in a second.

508
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,240
This is your introduction to ProWords.

509
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:22,940
And so in the reference guide, there's a whole list of these, but we'll cover some of the more common ones here.

510
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,940
I spell means you're about to spell something.

511
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,260
Good practice to do that with last names, because they can be fun.

512
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,460
Also can be good to do that with first names.

513
00:43:32,460 --> 00:43:34,200
If it's john, is it j-o-n?

514
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,500
Is it j-o-h-n?

515
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,600
You know, that type of thing.

516
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,880
So if it makes sense to spell it, go for it.

517
00:43:39,220 --> 00:43:43,040
But if you're going to spell it, make sure you kind of do that without pausing.

518
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:51,240
So instead of doe, I spell... the other person's probably already tried to write it down at that point.

519
00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:54,180
So if you're going to spell it, then just go right into spelling it.

520
00:43:54,180 --> 00:44:01,540
So going to Jane, doe, I spell, Delta, Oscar, Echo, you know, and then keep going with it.

521
00:44:01,540 --> 00:44:03,740
Amateur call means you're about to give a call sign.

522
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:09,140
Figures, whether address figures, or zip figures, or phone figures, you're about to get some some numbers.

523
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,740
Mixed group means you're about to give a mixture of letters and numbers.

524
00:44:14,420 --> 00:44:17,400
Directions, really only used in the address.

525
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,280
So it's just there to, you know, Northeast 8th Street, or Southwest this, or that type of thing.

526
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:24,840
And then break.

527
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:37,940
This usually throws a curveball, because I know a lot of Nets here in the Metroplex will have in the preamble, if you have emergency or priority traffic, at any time, say break, break, followed by your call sign.

528
00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:47,640
So sometimes it creates this, well, in this case, break indicates you're pausing.

529
00:44:47,860 --> 00:44:53,260
And so you would, you know, read the, you know, you'd relay the address and phone number and then break.

530
00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:55,440
And then you'd let up on push to talk.

531
00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:01,320
And you wait for that other station to come back to you with whether they need any fills.

532
00:45:01,340 --> 00:45:04,060
You know, I need you to repeat this or that type of thing.

533
00:45:04,220 --> 00:45:08,360
Or they will say go, or go ahead, go text.

534
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,520
That means you can continue with the radiogram.

535
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:11,700
They have everything.

536
00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:14,220
In the comment, we say break for text for clarity.

537
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,640
And we'll have some folks do that here in the Metroplex, too.

538
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:23,280
They'll say break for text to let you know that they're pausing before they jump into the text section.

539
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:26,900
Op notes.

540
00:45:27,140 --> 00:45:33,160
And so this is not something that's commonly seen, but it can be, so I'll just mention it.

541
00:45:33,220 --> 00:45:36,420
Two places for op notes that they can appear in these.

542
00:45:36,420 --> 00:45:37,300
This is the first one.

543
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,980
This one relates to handling or delivery.

544
00:45:39,980 --> 00:45:43,560
So in this example, I've put workday only.

545
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,660
And so maybe the phone number I've given is a work phone number.

546
00:45:46,660 --> 00:45:48,840
And so why bother calling on the weekend?

547
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:55,800
This helps that station that's about to do the delivery in this example, to have an idea of when to try making the phone call.

548
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:02,360
So they're not burning time on, you know, a weekend attempt that's just, you know, going to lead to voicemail or something like that.

549
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:14,640
Again, operational notes or op notes are optional, but for this first one, it gives, you know, some help to that delivering station or to those handling it if there's any extra information that that might help them when relaying this along.

550
00:46:14,660 --> 00:46:16,780
That's the addressee part.

551
00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:20,200
If you have questions on that, throw them in the chat.

552
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,560
We'll go into this receiving station info part.

553
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:23,900
This is really easy.

554
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:31,020
The only time I ever fill this out is if I'm dropping the radiogram in the mail.

555
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,960
This is your station information.

556
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:44,100
And this can be helpful if you're putting it in the mail and you want that person to know how to get ahold of you if they have any questions or anything like that.

557
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:50,260
Or if you're in an emergency or something like that, who filled in this radiogram?

558
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:56,020
Then you put your information there and then that way if there are any follow-up questions, they know how to get ahold of you.

559
00:46:56,220 --> 00:46:59,340
Maybe it's a, we can't read this one word, can you read it for us?

560
00:46:59,340 --> 00:47:00,640
Or, you know, that type of thing.

561
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,660
Otherwise, I know my name and my phone number and stuff.

562
00:47:05,660 --> 00:47:07,120
I don't need to fill it in.

563
00:47:07,180 --> 00:47:14,560
It's only helpful if I'm going to put it in the mail or something like that and, you know, someone else is going to be looking at it and if they have questions, they know how to get ahold of me.

564
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,720
So that is virtually always blank for me.

565
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,180
The text is the heart of the message.

566
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:26,600
There are 25 spaces or 25 groups.

567
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,880
I like to think of it as five dollars a word.

568
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:43,400
Going back to that brevity and be concise and to the point, we want to very effectively relay these through the system and so the longer they are, the more time they take.

569
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,020
If it's worth the extra five or ten dollars, then it's worth it.

570
00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:54,360
But if there's a way to be more concise and still get the message across clearly and effectively, then go for it.

571
00:47:55,180 --> 00:47:57,640
So let's say I wanted to send this.

572
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:58,700
Great seeing you yesterday.

573
00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:01,340
Hope to get together again soon, 73.

574
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:10,420
So in radiograms, punctuation, just like in the email, is spelled out.

575
00:48:10,420 --> 00:48:16,000
So periods are written as either the letter x, which we say is initial x-ray, or the whole word x-ray.

576
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,200
Both will work.

577
00:48:18,060 --> 00:48:25,160
Others that you might see that aren't too common but they are used on occasion is if you have a question, the question mark is written as the word query.

578
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:28,260
Exclamation points are written as exclamation.

579
00:48:28,580 --> 00:48:31,860
Not too often, but you're going to see a lot of x-rays in things.

580
00:48:31,860 --> 00:48:33,680
That's the most common one.

581
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,220
And so here's how this would translate.

582
00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:40,100
Great seeing you yesterday, initial x-ray.

583
00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:44,520
Hope to get together again soon, figures 73.

584
00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:48,900
Now I didn't need to put an x-ray between soon and 73.

585
00:48:49,740 --> 00:48:53,400
I can kind of gather that that was the end of the sentence.

586
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:59,080
And so why spend the five bucks to put a period there when I don't need it?

587
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:09,340
And sometimes I'll still do it and I'm reading it on the traffic net and I say x-ray figures that I laugh at myself and I'm like, well that's how I read it, so go for it.

588
00:49:09,340 --> 00:49:13,320
But it's like, I guess I had extra five dollars in my pocket and let's go for it.

589
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:19,280
But if you don't need that x-ray there, then no need to spend the five bucks type of thing.

590
00:49:20,180 --> 00:49:22,900
If it helps clarify things, I would include it.

591
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:30,880
So if it was like a date , right, if it was on August 10, 73, then I would put an x-ray there.

592
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,500
I'd spend the five bucks to make sure there's some clarity.

593
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,100
On August, figures 1-0, initial x-ray, figures 7-3.

594
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:45,900
Just gives that extra clarity that the 73 is not part of the year or that, you know, whatever might be next to it type of thing.

595
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,180
Question in the chat, your responsibility to help format the message.

596
00:49:49,180 --> 00:49:58,640
So whether I'm filling it out for myself or on behalf of someone else, I own filling in the radiogram.

597
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,720
I'm the one that's introducing it and making it for the first time.

598
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:10,520
So I own whatever words get in there because as soon as I relay it on the air, ideally that's exactly how it's going to arrive on the other end.

599
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:21,100
So when you're putting the message together, you know, go for brevity and things to, you know, to make sure the message moves effectively through the system.

600
00:50:21,100 --> 00:50:29,260
And, you know, if you have a word, if you were to send supercalifragilisticexpialidocious on a radiogram, I would really look at you like, why?

601
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:36,420
You know, but in other words, you know, go for simplicity, but still get the point across.

602
00:50:36,580 --> 00:50:45,700
If you're moving a radiogram that says we need methotrexate like a medication, well, then that's worth it to say methotrexate.

603
00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:49,160
You're not going to simplify it any further than that as a medication, right?

604
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:57,520
But, you know, again, try and be, you know, concise and efficient with your traffic when you go to author it before you bring it to the system.

605
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,300
Questions on 73.

606
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,920
Is it figure 73 or 73?

607
00:51:05,580 --> 00:51:13,020
When we have numbers in the text like this, we use the pro word figures to indicate that it's a number.

608
00:51:13,020 --> 00:51:16,220
And then we say each digit individually.

609
00:51:16,220 --> 00:51:19,440
So it's figures 73.

610
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,260
We give each number individually.

611
00:51:22,260 --> 00:51:33,780
I mean, otherwise, you could you could get the, you know, if you say, you know, 146, or, you know, 146, or what, we want to standardize how we do that.

612
00:51:33,780 --> 00:51:37,960
And we want to do it in a way where we're going to make sure each number gets there clearly.

613
00:51:38,580 --> 00:51:41,720
So we give them one at a time, each digit individually.

614
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,960
Do you have to get the sender's approval of the message?

615
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:52,580
If it was an ICS 213, and you're working in an emergency operations center or something, then yeah, there's going to be someone that signs off on it.

616
00:51:52,700 --> 00:51:56,940
If you are authoring your own message, then you approve your own message type of thing.

617
00:51:56,940 --> 00:52:09,500
If you're on the phone with somebody and they want to send, you know, happy birthday, you know, type of thing, and you decide that you could say that in the shorthand, or, you know, that type of thing, you don't necessarily need to get their okay to say,

618
00:52:09,500 --> 00:52:13,180
well, I'm going to take that period out because we don't need it or, you know, that type of thing.

619
00:52:13,860 --> 00:52:25,600
You know, a lot of this is just, you know, good judgment on, you know, if someone's telling you, tell them, you know, tell them I'm glad to hear from them, and that I hope they're doing well.

620
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:31,680
Well, you know, you can, you know, put that in the message right along those lines.

621
00:52:31,700 --> 00:52:33,520
You know, I am glad to hear from you.

622
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:34,920
I am doing well.

623
00:52:34,940 --> 00:52:37,820
You know, I wouldn't cut it in half or anything like that.

624
00:52:37,820 --> 00:52:39,460
You know, try and follow what they're giving you.

625
00:52:39,460 --> 00:52:45,100
But the way I would do it on the phone is they'll tell me kind of what it is they want to say.

626
00:52:45,100 --> 00:52:46,880
And sometimes they're making it up as they say it.

627
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,880
So it's not, you know, exactly ready, but I will type it out.

628
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,760
And then when they're done, I'll say, okay, here's what I'm going to send.

629
00:52:55,300 --> 00:52:57,100
And then they'll go, okay, great.

630
00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:05,200
Or, well, can you add or, you know, that's kind of their sign off type of thing, just to verify that I've got everything that they wanted to say in that.

631
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,560
So hopefully that gives you a good answer there.

632
00:53:08,580 --> 00:53:09,880
We'll keep moving.

633
00:53:10,460 --> 00:53:16,180
When you're putting the check together, things like x-ray and query count as a word when you're filling in the check.

634
00:53:16,180 --> 00:53:22,640
So if you look at what we've got on the text here, it's 12.

635
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:24,980
Great seeing you yesterday.

636
00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:26,480
Initial x-ray are the first five.

637
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,100
Hope to get together again are the next five.

638
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:31,160
Soon figure 73 are the last two.

639
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:32,940
So the check here is 12.

640
00:53:32,940 --> 00:53:37,860
And when I read that as part of the header, I would say one, two.

641
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,320
And we'll put this all in the radiogram so you can see it all as a big picture.

642
00:53:44,740 --> 00:53:48,620
Again, I would pause between words, but, you know, for sake of time.

643
00:53:48,620 --> 00:53:49,700
Great seeing you yesterday.

644
00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:50,600
Initial x-ray.

645
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,360
Hope to get together again soon.

646
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:53,620
Figures 73.

647
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:54,540
Break.

648
00:53:54,860 --> 00:53:57,520
So some more pro words that we can have here.

649
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:02,700
Initials, or some say letter group, means you're about to give initials.

650
00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:03,740
Break.

651
00:54:04,020 --> 00:54:07,680
Break for a signature, because the signature is next.

652
00:54:07,860 --> 00:54:13,840
Again, we're giving that pause to see if that other station needs any fills.

653
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:23,480
I need you to say again word after hope, or please spell yesterday, or, you know, things like that.

654
00:54:23,620 --> 00:54:31,480
If you get the please say all again after yesterday, that's a good sign you might have went a little too fast, and they just gave up.

655
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,500
So slow down the next time.

656
00:54:33,940 --> 00:54:40,860
Affirmative or negative is much better than yes or no, because it's longer, so we have less chance of misinterpreting it type of thing.

657
00:54:40,860 --> 00:54:42,340
So affirmative or negative.

658
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:49,820
And then correction, if you did make a mistake, then you can just say correction, and then whatever the correction is.

659
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,400
You know, so great seeing you initial x-ray.

660
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:54,080
Correction.

661
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:54,860
Yesterday.

662
00:54:54,860 --> 00:54:58,380
I say again great seeing you yesterday.

663
00:54:58,380 --> 00:54:58,940
Initial x-ray.

664
00:54:58,940 --> 00:55:03,400
It gets you into that rhythm of putting that correction in and keeping things following.

665
00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:09,720
So the last part now, what if I'm a bad speller?

666
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:14,240
Well, when you read it over the air, we won't know how you spelled it.

667
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:16,280
We'll just know how you said it.

668
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:22,080
But if someone asks you to spell something like methotrexate, right, try and get it right .

669
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:32,160
But if something is introduced with a misspelling, and that's how it's handed to you as it's in transit, then relay it exactly as you got it.

670
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,660
We're not in the middle of this to change the message while it's in transit, right?

671
00:55:35,660 --> 00:55:47,880
This is not the time for the telephone game where I start with, you know, I need two cases of bottled water, and it ends with I need five one-gallon jugs of iced tea or, you know, something.

672
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:53,440
So if it has a mistake in it or things, move it along just as you got it.

673
00:55:53,660 --> 00:55:55,620
I wouldn't change anything like that.

674
00:55:55,620 --> 00:55:59,840
So if something comes in with a spelling mistake, it'll move through the system like that.

675
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,540
As long as we know what it's saying, then we're okay.

676
00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:06,320
The signature.

677
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,600
So this is the last part that would generally be filled out.

678
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:13,760
It's below the text and above the sent and received info with no label.

679
00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:17,980
So it's just kind of one of those we-know-it-goes-there types of things.

680
00:56:17,980 --> 00:56:21,980
Generally, it's your name and your call sign if you have one.

681
00:56:21,980 --> 00:56:24,920
So in my case, it's Aaron K8AMH.

682
00:56:25,860 --> 00:56:30,000
This is how I would finish this message on the air.

683
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,760
I would say, signed.

684
00:56:33,220 --> 00:56:37,420
So I've read the text, I break, the other station says, go ahead.

685
00:56:37,420 --> 00:56:48,500
I would say, signed, Aaron, amateur call, Kilo 8, Alpha Mike Hotel, end, number 312, no more, how copy?

686
00:56:50,220 --> 00:56:54,780
So, end means that's the end of the radiogram.

687
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,300
Book traffic, we'll talk about in a second.

688
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,900
No more is just how many you have left to relay to that station.

689
00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:11,660
So if you're like, I have three that are going to Michigan, then I would read the first one, I would say, end, number whatever that was, two more, how copy this one?

690
00:57:11,660 --> 00:57:14,080
And then the other station knows we still have some more to go.

691
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:18,200
How copy, so did you copy it successfully?

692
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:29,580
And then, you know, Roger, I Roger your number 312, good copy on 312, something like that, is how you'd know the other station has everything successfully.

693
00:57:29,580 --> 00:57:32,520
Now, this is the second place where op notes can appear.

694
00:57:32,940 --> 00:57:38,480
This is more commonly used, this is related to replies or servicing.

695
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:46,760
And so for example, could have Aaron, Kiloweight Alpha Mike Hotel, op note, reply or service to KE5YTA.

696
00:57:47,120 --> 00:58:00,140
Effectively, what this is saying is, if you have a reply that you need to send to me, send it to me via KE5YTA, and his name's Roger.

697
00:58:00,140 --> 00:58:02,740
So the message would go to Roger.

698
00:58:02,740 --> 00:58:06,720
And I'll show this in a real radiogram of how this works.

699
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:11,640
This is good for, like for Peter in Germany, how we get the messages back to him.

700
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,460
So the last part of this is your tracking.

701
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:22,640
So everything we've talked about so far, aside from the receiving station info, will not change in the radiogram ever.

702
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,020
This will stay the same as it moves through the system.

703
00:58:25,820 --> 00:58:29,040
The received and sent info, this is for your tracking.

704
00:58:29,660 --> 00:58:32,380
Who did you get it from and who did you send it to?

705
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,360
And so let's say I sent to Roger.

706
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,580
I would put KE5YTA.

707
00:58:37,700 --> 00:58:41,120
I like to track what net I was on when I did that.

708
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,420
That's optional, but that's just a little piece of extra info for me.

709
00:58:44,420 --> 00:58:50,400
And again, I use UTC here, you know, with the date and the time that I relayed it.

710
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:55,180
And that way, if I need to go back and try and follow its journey, I have my records.

711
00:58:55,300 --> 00:58:59,420
Roger will have his records, and we can start tracing it through the system.

712
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:06,720
So this is how this radiogram looks from everything that we've built up.

713
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,620
So let me zoom in on it so we have a little bit better view.

714
00:59:10,620 --> 00:59:14,640
So the number precedence, we had no handling instructions, so that's blank.

715
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:27,280
The origin is me, check of 12 Dallas, where it's headed, the message, signature, and then who I relayed it to after, you know, I moved it on the traffic net.

716
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,640
Are there any questions on this example?

717
00:59:33,460 --> 00:59:35,100
And I'll buy you some time.

718
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:46,200
I did not receive an email with the radiogram download or print.

719
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:53,380
Okay, so if you go to k8amh.com forward slash handouts.

720
00:59:53,380 --> 00:59:54,740
Oh, is that plural?

721
00:59:55,420 --> 00:59:57,860
Let me go find out because I don't remember.

722
00:59:57,860 --> 01:00:01,900
Um, if the browser will open.

723
01:00:03,460 --> 01:00:04,980
I think it's plural.

724
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:06,380
Yeah, okay.

725
01:00:06,380 --> 01:00:07,160
Thanks, Sean.

726
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:07,760
Yeah.

727
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:13,000
So I'll go ahead and let this open slowly for some reason.

728
01:00:15,940 --> 01:00:17,000
Come on, internet.

729
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:17,660
There we go.

730
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:22,020
You'll find the reference guide here on the left, and then I've got two copies of the radiogram forms.

731
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:26,800
One that is not fillable, the other one that is.

732
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:30,240
So if you prefer to fill it out on screen, then you've got it.

733
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:32,660
Great.

734
01:00:32,660 --> 01:00:36,060
Any other questions or anything, feel free to throw them in there.

735
01:00:37,660 --> 01:00:40,140
What if we have the same message going to more than one person?

736
01:00:40,140 --> 01:00:42,840
So let's say it's, you know, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

737
01:00:43,060 --> 01:00:44,860
And I'm sending it to three different people.

738
01:00:44,860 --> 01:00:46,460
We call that book traffic.

739
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:51,500
It's just a nice way of saying that, well, the message itself is the same.

740
01:00:51,500 --> 01:00:53,660
I just have it going to different people.

741
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:59,320
And then when I go to relay it on the air, I only need to read the text once.

742
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:04,420
And then I just give the destination separately.

743
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,100
Each radiogram still has its own number.

744
01:01:08,140 --> 01:01:16,560
So if I had, you know, three going to family members in Michigan, then, you know, if it was 312 is the first one, then the second one is 313, and the next one is 314.

745
01:01:17,580 --> 01:01:22,260
And then the address information would change, right, different destination, but the rest of it's the same.

746
01:01:22,260 --> 01:01:23,920
So I would relay this.

747
01:01:25,140 --> 01:01:26,440
There's two ways you could do it.

748
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,800
One is where you just give the common parts, the parts that appear the same in all of them.

749
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:39,200
In Dallas, we read the first radiogram all the way through the first time.

750
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:46,260
So we start with number 312, routine, kilo-weight albumin, 2, Jane Doe, great seeing you, sign.

751
01:01:46,260 --> 01:01:57,600
And then the next one, we would say, okay, the next one in the book is number 313, and it's going to John Smith, 123 Fake Street, and number 313, one more in the book, a copy.

752
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:03,180
And then the next one would be 314 going to, you know, Jane Smith, you know, type of thing.

753
01:02:03,660 --> 01:02:05,580
So again, listen to that net personality.

754
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,040
But we don't need to read the whole header.

755
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:11,200
We don't need to read the text over again or things in the comment, great for your field day traffic, book of 10.

756
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,640
Yeah, it's just more, you know, speedy type of thing.

757
01:02:13,700 --> 01:02:16,880
It helps speed up moving things.

758
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:25,300
And you think about the, you know, ARL 56, new amateur radio license, welcome to the hobby, enjoy the fun and friendships you will make, right?

759
01:02:25,300 --> 01:02:42,160
If, you know, someone like Lauren, November 1, India, Quebec, India, or Chris, November X-ray 9 kilo, and Jim, you know, are sending the same greetings that we just put that through as book traffic, only have to read the message once, and then we can go through all the destinations type of thing.

760
01:02:43,620 --> 01:02:45,640
Okay, I talked about shorthands.

761
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,520
So we'll dive in these in a bit.

762
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,180
Here's an example of where a shorthand is used.

763
01:02:52,420 --> 01:02:57,260
And so this is real, I just, I took out the name.

764
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:02,920
ARL 56, new amateur radio license, welcome to the hobby, enjoy the fun and friendships you will make, 73.

765
01:03:04,420 --> 01:03:07,180
Fun how you just memorize those over time.

766
01:03:08,380 --> 01:03:18,820
We're using a shorthand here, because this does mean something, and it's in your handout, the ARL numbered radiograms.

767
01:03:20,140 --> 01:03:23,740
They provide a way for us to send common phrases very quickly.

768
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:28,580
When you deliver it to the other end, of course, you're going to say what it means.

769
01:03:28,580 --> 01:03:31,400
Like I wouldn't say, okay, you got a message, this is ARL 50.

770
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,880
You know, they're not going to know what that means, so tell them what it means.

771
01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:39,180
And then in the check, we indicate that we have a shorthand in use.

772
01:03:39,180 --> 01:03:44,200
And so the check of 1-2, you know, example would become Alpha Romeo Lima 1-2.

773
01:03:44,700 --> 01:03:47,980
Again, to flag the fact that we've used a shorthand.

774
01:03:47,980 --> 01:03:49,180
Here are some common ones.

775
01:03:49,180 --> 01:03:51,480
You have the full list of them in the handout.

776
01:03:52,260 --> 01:03:54,540
ARL 50, greetings by amateur radio.

777
01:03:54,900 --> 01:04:00,920
56, congratulations on your, and then whatever, most worthy and deserved achievement.

778
01:04:02,020 --> 01:04:12,360
For servicing, if we want to tell a station we delivered their message, then it's ARL 47, and then we give the number and the destination and the date and time of delivery.

779
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:19,440
If we couldn't deliver it, then ARL 67, and then we give the message number and maybe some other details, and then we explain why.

780
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:23,900
You know, phone number, out of service, or no answer, you know, that type of thing.

781
01:04:24,620 --> 01:04:41,440
So when we look at this example, ARL 56, new amateur radio license, becomes congratulations on your, and this is the blank, so what follows this shorthand here, you know, new amateur radio license, initial x-ray, that's what goes in the blank.

782
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:46,840
So congratulations on your new amateur radio license, a most worthy and deserved achievement.

783
01:04:46,980 --> 01:04:48,540
Welcome to the hobby.

784
01:04:48,540 --> 01:04:50,980
Enjoy the fun and friendships you will make.

785
01:04:50,980 --> 01:04:52,140
73.

786
01:04:52,380 --> 01:04:56,600
That would be how I would deliver it to its destination.

787
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:05,500
We spell out the numbers in these shorthands, and this is to help clarify that this is part of the shorthand.

788
01:05:05,500 --> 01:05:17,560
So I would read this as initials, Alpha, Romeo, Lima, 50, I spell, Foxtrot, India, Foxtrot, Tango, Yankee, six, I spell, Sierra, India, x-ray.

789
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:26,480
We're spelling them to call out the fact that they are spelled out words rather than like figure 7-3, right?

790
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:34,900
We want to clarify that these are written out words rather than some digits, and so that's why we spell them out like that.

791
01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:42,220
Some other quick examples, and then we can do maybe a little bit of hands-on.

792
01:05:42,220 --> 01:05:45,180
Let me zoom in on this just for fun.

793
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:50,140
So ARL50, John, and congrats on new amateur radio license.

794
01:05:50,140 --> 01:05:53,700
X-ray, enjoy all that the radio community offers.

795
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:55,940
X-ray, best regards.

796
01:05:56,620 --> 01:05:59,800
ARL50, remember what that is?

797
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,100
It's greetings by amateur radio.

798
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:07,040
And so that's how greetings by amateur radio, John, and congrats on it.

799
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:11,600
Here we have the op note that Peter includes.

800
01:06:12,140 --> 01:06:20,900
So he signs it, Peter, DL4FN, op note reply or service message to him through Roger in Richardson, Texas.

801
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:26,960
And so what this means, I see someone recognizes Peter's messages in the chat.

802
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:44,980
What this means is that to send something back to Peter, so like if that other station wants to say thank you and hope to hear you on the air or whatever their reply is, or if it's I couldn't deliver it because the phone number is disconnected, I would send the reply to Peter,

803
01:06:44,980 --> 01:06:51,120
DL4FN, care of Roger, K-E-5-Y-T-A, in Richardson, Texas.

804
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:53,840
So I won't send it to Germany.

805
01:06:53,840 --> 01:07:04,320
I'm going to route it to Roger here in Dallas, because Peter has asked Roger here in Dallas to act as kind of his liaison to get the messages back to him in Germany.

806
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:10,660
So I'm going to send it back to Roger, and then Roger will relay it across to Peter.

807
01:07:10,660 --> 01:07:14,360
If that makes sense, how this op note works at the end.

808
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:18,360
Again, this is relating to, you know, the replies or service messages.

809
01:07:18,380 --> 01:07:25,460
We're going to still send this reply to Peter, but we're going to route it to Roger, because that's who Peter's designated here in the U.S.

810
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:30,160
for receiving, for working, you know, those replies back to him in Germany.

811
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,840
Same thing here on this one.

812
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:41,980
Peter's got the op note, you know, hello Gary, congrats on your new amateur license, you know, that type of thing.

813
01:07:41,980 --> 01:07:48,700
And these are ones I put in the mail, because I choose if I can't get a hold of them on the phone, then I mail them.

814
01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:49,820
It's a personal choice.

815
01:07:49,820 --> 01:07:56,580
And I fill out these details here in the, you know, the receive box, so that if they have any questions, they know how to get a hold of me.

816
01:07:56,580 --> 01:08:03,560
And I put a little letter with an explanation to just saying, you know, this is part of traffic handling, and here's what the message says, and that type of thing.

817
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,860
All right, so we'll do a little hands-on.

818
01:08:07,300 --> 01:08:10,160
Let's say you're going to send something to me.

819
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:18,320
There's my address and phone number, and you're going to send, hope to hear you on the band soon, and 73.

820
01:08:18,320 --> 01:08:22,360
So go ahead and take some time, if you've got your blank radiogram printed out.

821
01:08:22,380 --> 01:08:27,840
And if it's, you can make up the number, one or 500, or however you want to do that.

822
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,060
But I'll give you a couple minutes.

823
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:38,720
And in the meantime, if folks have questions, feel free to throw them in the chat.

824
01:08:46,670 --> 01:08:50,650
Again, more fuel, getting a little cooler, but I'll still work on it

825
01:08:56,530 --> 01:08:56,970
.

826
01:08:58,390 --> 01:09:41,020
Okay, we'll give you another minute here.

827
01:09:41,020 --> 01:09:46,460
So again, any questions, feel free to throw them in the chat.

828
01:09:53,720 --> 01:10:00,460
The handling instructions definitions list, excuse me, so that is also in the handout.

829
01:10:00,460 --> 01:10:05,800
So why don't I open it here, and we'll kind of walk through it very, very quickly.

830
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:16,940
So at the beginning of this phonetic alphabet, because again, the gold standard, and then the handling instructions, and what they all mean.

831
01:10:18,820 --> 01:10:29,540
Precedences, so again, priority welfare emergency, and then common prosigns that are used in traffic handling.

832
01:10:29,980 --> 01:10:35,360
And then that's followed by the ARL shorthands.

833
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:36,740
And there are two blocks of these.

834
01:10:36,740 --> 01:10:45,480
The first group is generally emergency related, you know, like supplies requests or comments on damage to the area or things.

835
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,980
Group two is more for the routine-y things.

836
01:10:49,700 --> 01:10:57,280
You know, greetings by amateur radio, greetings on your birthday, you know, holiday greetings, and things like that.

837
01:11:02,330 --> 01:11:03,770
Other questions?

838
01:11:16,230 --> 01:11:21,930
So from a big picture, how do I initiate a message from a local level and get it to a regional relay?

839
01:11:21,930 --> 01:11:40,090
So the way it'll work, we'll go through this in the net discussion, is you'll bring it to a local traffic net, and then someone else that's also checked into that traffic net will be able to act as that bridge to a regional or area net, and then they'll take that there and move it there.

840
01:11:40,090 --> 01:11:41,870
And that's how it'll jump across.

841
01:11:41,910 --> 01:11:51,310
I think it'll become a little bit clearer when we get into the... pardon me, get into the... how the traffic nets work here in just a second.

842
01:11:51,430 --> 01:12:00,450
But that's kind of a quick answer, is when you bring it to the local level, you'll have folks that can take things to the regional area or things, and that's how it'll keep going.

843
01:12:00,450 --> 01:12:02,350
Yeah, there'll be liaisons to other nets.

844
01:12:02,350 --> 01:12:03,850
Yeah, we're going to walk through that.

845
01:12:03,950 --> 01:12:04,510
Yeah.

846
01:12:04,610 --> 01:12:04,930
All right.

847
01:12:04,930 --> 01:12:06,390
So let's keep moving.

848
01:12:06,390 --> 01:12:08,290
If you don't have it quite filled out, that's okay.

849
01:12:08,750 --> 01:12:11,490
This is effectively how it should look.

850
01:12:11,490 --> 01:12:32,530
So whatever number you put, and then routine, your call sign, a check of nine or a niner, your city and state, today's date, then my address and phone number, and then one word in each blank, hope to hear you on the band soon, figure seven three, and then your name and your call sign here in this little tiny spot.

851
01:12:33,230 --> 01:12:43,150
Anybody have any questions on how we filled it out this way, or if you had something a little different, or anything that I can clarify on this?

852
01:12:43,910 --> 01:12:48,210
I'll give you about 30 seconds, and then we'll jump in a little bit.

853
01:12:48,210 --> 01:12:49,470
We got a little bit more to go.

854
01:12:49,470 --> 01:12:51,290
We're not doing horrible on time.

855
01:12:51,290 --> 01:12:54,030
We've got maybe another 10, maybe 15 minutes.

856
01:12:54,030 --> 01:12:55,930
I added an initial x-ray.

857
01:12:56,630 --> 01:12:58,730
So again, so that's the comment.

858
01:12:58,730 --> 01:13:00,930
I added an initial x-ray in the chat.

859
01:13:00,930 --> 01:13:07,070
So if you put an x-ray between soon and 73, you can do that.

860
01:13:08,010 --> 01:13:11,550
Is it necessary?

861
01:13:11,570 --> 01:13:12,470
Not necessarily.

862
01:13:12,470 --> 01:13:14,630
I know the sentence ended here at soon.

863
01:13:14,630 --> 01:13:16,630
If you put it, you can put it.

864
01:13:16,630 --> 01:13:23,510
But I personally like to save the five dollars, and so I don't put an x-ray there for a period.

865
01:13:23,950 --> 01:13:29,730
Another question, what's the rationale for place of origin?

866
01:13:29,730 --> 01:13:37,970
So again on this, this is the location of whoever authored this text.

867
01:13:38,150 --> 01:13:40,670
The rationale for that, yeah.

868
01:13:41,470 --> 01:13:48,050
So this is so that we know where the message came from.

869
01:13:48,190 --> 01:14:00,710
Because again, if you are the station of origin, like if I'm filling it out, and I'm in Dallas, the people that are authoring that message are in Fort Worth.

870
01:14:01,030 --> 01:14:11,030
And if I say, I need five cots at Mercy Hospital, Mercy Hospital in Fort Worth, or Mercy Hospital in Dallas, or Mercy Hospital.

871
01:14:11,070 --> 01:14:14,830
It just helps provide some of that clarity, first off.

872
01:14:14,970 --> 01:14:22,750
And then also, as Darwin's put in there, I think it's to help replies go back to the proper local net.

873
01:14:22,750 --> 01:14:31,370
It does help with routing, because we've got that clue in there of where we can head it back to for its destination.

874
01:14:31,890 --> 01:14:36,450
But when we think about emergency traffic or things, just, you know, where did this come from?

875
01:14:37,250 --> 01:14:39,670
You know, Kilo 8 Alpha Mike Hotel, that's an 8.

876
01:14:39,670 --> 01:14:42,610
So this must have come from Michigan or West Virginia or something, right?

877
01:14:42,610 --> 01:14:44,290
No, it's coming from Dallas, Texas.

878
01:14:44,570 --> 01:14:56,590
And so, you know, if I don't have access to the FCC ULS, the, you know, Universal Licensing System, or things like QRZ to look up addresses, then this is my clue.

879
01:14:56,590 --> 01:14:59,910
Place of origin, at least for me, when I sent it, would be Dallas, Texas.

880
01:14:59,910 --> 01:15:03,530
And that's how you'd know how to route it back to me type of thing.

881
01:15:05,030 --> 01:15:07,330
Yeah, other questions on this?

882
01:15:07,490 --> 01:15:09,310
Feel free to throw them in the chat.

883
01:15:09,310 --> 01:15:13,950
I'm gonna keep rolling just to try and keep conscious of time here.

884
01:15:14,770 --> 01:15:18,950
So now on traffic nets, I won't dive into this too much.

885
01:15:18,950 --> 01:15:24,450
It's pretty much like any other net you've hopefully joined where you get the preamble, you know, welcome to the traffic net.

886
01:15:24,450 --> 01:15:26,370
My name is and I'm your net control station.

887
01:15:26,370 --> 01:15:37,110
And I will now take check-ins from stations with traffic, which means you're bringing a radiogram that you want to introduce into the system or relay through the system.

888
01:15:37,310 --> 01:15:45,910
And then you can take check-ins from stations without traffic, which means I don't have any radiograms to relay, but I'm here if you need help relaying things.

889
01:15:46,110 --> 01:15:48,090
And then after that, the relaying begins.

890
01:15:48,090 --> 01:15:51,170
Two stations will connect together on the air.

891
01:15:51,170 --> 01:15:58,230
And then this is... I'm doing this as a voice net because that's how many folks here at Dallas get started on traffic nets is at the local level.

892
01:15:58,850 --> 01:16:02,430
You know, if it's a CW net or things, you know, you follow similar.

893
01:16:03,210 --> 01:16:05,730
Here's how a net control could log things.

894
01:16:05,730 --> 01:16:08,590
For this one, I was the one that was running the net.

895
01:16:09,950 --> 01:16:15,510
And so, of course, I tracked myself as the as the net control station.

896
01:16:15,510 --> 01:16:17,370
Next, we had Calvin check in.

897
01:16:17,370 --> 01:16:19,930
He brought a piece of traffic for Bowie, Texas.

898
01:16:19,950 --> 01:16:23,190
Then Don, W9BE, checked in.

899
01:16:23,270 --> 01:16:37,550
He acted as a liaison for TEX, the Texas Traffic Net, which that for me as a net control station tells me an option on how to route traffic out of Dallas-Fort Worth.

900
01:16:37,990 --> 01:16:42,310
I have this option for moving traffic out of the area.

901
01:16:42,310 --> 01:16:45,450
Same thing with Roger, K85YATA.

902
01:16:45,450 --> 01:16:48,610
He interfaces with the digital traffic net.

903
01:16:48,790 --> 01:16:59,850
And if I have to send something Michigan, Wisconsin, you know, Washington State, something, then I know that Roger is an option to move things out of the area through the digital traffic net.

904
01:16:59,850 --> 01:17:01,150
Same with John.

905
01:17:01,350 --> 01:17:03,670
Roger, in this case, brought a book of five.

906
01:17:03,670 --> 01:17:08,350
So it's the same text and things going to five different destinations.

907
01:17:08,350 --> 01:17:12,670
Two of those were in Dallas, one in Plano, one in Prosper, one in Melissa.

908
01:17:12,670 --> 01:17:17,070
And then John also had his a book of three, separate book, but book of three.

909
01:17:17,110 --> 01:17:21,810
And then he had one and another one that's not part of the book.

910
01:17:22,670 --> 01:17:33,550
And then last, Corky checked in with a net report, which is how we turn in our statistics and they get reported to me and then I report them to our headquarters.

911
01:17:33,550 --> 01:17:35,030
But how do we turn in those net reports?

912
01:17:35,030 --> 01:17:36,270
Well, through a radiogram.

913
01:17:38,490 --> 01:17:42,290
So, okay, let me turn off the pointer and we'll keep moving.

914
01:17:42,810 --> 01:18:03,250
So the way this would work is after figuring out who can route what, the net control station would have those two stations connect, you know, and say, okay, I'm, they would read the header and the address and phone number and then break.

915
01:18:03,350 --> 01:18:08,710
And then I would either say, please say again, phone number, or please say again, city, or please spell city.

916
01:18:08,710 --> 01:18:12,790
Or when I'm ready to go, I would say, go, go text, go ahead.

917
01:18:13,610 --> 01:18:20,410
Other station would then read the text section one word at a time, and then break.

918
01:18:20,530 --> 01:18:37,290
And then I would say, you know, please say again, word after blah, or go, go ahead, go signature, then they would read the signature, you know, sign some da da da, end number, whatever, no more or one more, how copy, I Roger your number, whatever, you know,

919
01:18:37,290 --> 01:18:43,730
thanks for the traffic and then K8AMH, and they, you know, thank you for taking that and ID and then turn it back to net control.

920
01:18:44,490 --> 01:18:47,930
That's how, that's how you would flow.

921
01:18:47,950 --> 01:18:49,790
I see the questions on how to get involved.

922
01:18:49,790 --> 01:18:51,410
I'll jump into that in just a second.

923
01:18:51,490 --> 01:18:57,350
So the way I would move this is I would say, please copy my number three, and I'm going to go fast.

924
01:18:57,350 --> 01:19:26,610
Please copy my number 312, routine, K8AMH, 1-2, Dallas, Texas, January 1-5, to Jane Doe, amateur call, Alfa Romeo 1-Tango, address figures 1-2-3, mixed group 8-5 Tango Hotel, street, direction southeast, some town Wisconsin, zip figures 0-0-1-2-1, phone figures 3-3-0-5-5-5-4-4-2-4,

925
01:19:26,610 --> 01:19:47,370
break, and the other station go ahead, great seeing you yesterday, initial x-ray, hope to get together again soon, figures 7-3, break, and the other station would say go, signed Aaron, amateur call, Kilo 8, Alfa Mike Hotel, number 312, and no more, I'll copy.

926
01:19:47,370 --> 01:19:52,830
And the other, I copy, Roger, you're 312, thanks for the traffic, thanks for taking K8AMH back to NET.

927
01:19:52,830 --> 01:19:55,470
So that's how we would move that on the air.

928
01:19:55,470 --> 01:19:57,770
How do you get involved in the traffic nets?

929
01:19:59,590 --> 01:20:04,570
I would recommend finding, if possible, a local traffic net in your area.

930
01:20:05,710 --> 01:20:14,530
The ARRL, main webpage, ARRL.org, has a NET database that you can search.

931
01:20:14,530 --> 01:20:23,850
And let me make a note, I will put that in my follow-up email, how to search local NETs.

932
01:20:24,030 --> 01:20:29,090
And you can find local NETs and regional NETs and things, and then get involved that way.

933
01:20:29,090 --> 01:20:35,750
Find the NET at your local level, or if not available, find a regional or area NET on HF.

934
01:20:36,010 --> 01:20:44,290
Again, listen, I recommend you listen in the beginning, get a feel for that NET and how it flows, and then you can start jumping in and participating.

935
01:20:44,770 --> 01:20:58,610
I know, like, for example, here at the 7290 traffic net, the first time you check in and, you know, participate in the NET, even if you don't move any traffic, they send you a radiogram thanking you for finding them and for jumping in on the NET.

936
01:20:58,610 --> 01:21:01,090
They're very happy to hear from folks that join in.

937
01:21:01,410 --> 01:21:06,490
Lots of good NETs and lots of excitement when folks want to jump in type of thing.

938
01:21:12,340 --> 01:21:15,120
Okay, great presentation.

939
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:21,580
We got Aaron and Justin here in Discord to do a demo for us.

940
01:21:21,580 --> 01:21:26,760
So I'll let you guys take it from here, and we'll do some questions afterwards.

941
01:21:27,620 --> 01:21:29,100
Go ahead.

942
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:35,240
All right, I'll take it, I guess.

943
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,620
Everybody, thanks for jumping in.

944
01:21:37,620 --> 01:21:40,780
We'll do a couple of practice radiograms here.

945
01:21:40,860 --> 01:21:47,800
If you've printed them out from the handouts page, and I promise I'll go nice and slow.

946
01:21:48,480 --> 01:22:04,860
You could give this a spin to see how it flows for you when filling out the radiogram, and then if there's any questions on, well, what happened there, or what did that mean, or those types of things, we've got some time here to take questions.

947
01:22:04,940 --> 01:22:09,520
So hopefully I've bought enough time for folks to get their blank radiograms handy.

948
01:22:10,020 --> 01:22:13,260
I'll just go ahead and start doing this.

949
01:22:13,260 --> 01:22:20,120
If this works, or do you want to do questions first, let me double check to make sure I'm good to go with the relaying.

950
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:21,120
Let's go ahead.

951
01:22:21,260 --> 01:22:23,560
All righty, then we'll go ahead and get started.

952
01:22:23,580 --> 01:22:44,940
And this will be number 809-routine, Kilo 8 Alpha Mike Hotel, 1-4, Dallas, Texas, August 9-r, to your station.

953
01:22:44,940 --> 01:22:49,820
That's how we would do that on the air when it's going to the recipient is the same ham.

954
01:22:49,820 --> 01:22:52,760
So going to your station, break.

955
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:56,620
This is where somebody would say go.

956
01:22:56,620 --> 01:22:58,500
So I'll assume I gotta go.

957
01:22:58,500 --> 01:23:08,120
Thank you for attending today.

958
01:23:08,340 --> 01:23:15,600
Hope to get some traffic

959
01:23:19,440 --> 01:23:23,540
from you soon.

960
01:23:24,820 --> 01:23:27,640
Figures 7-3, break.

961
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:32,400
And again, I, you know, say again or something, but you know, go, you know, we'll do go signature.

962
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:38,360
That's signed Aaron Amateur Call, Kilo 8 Alpha Mike Hotel.

963
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:41,420
End number 809-r, and no more.

964
01:23:41,420 --> 01:23:42,800
I'll copy.

965
01:23:44,540 --> 01:23:48,280
And so hopefully that first, hopefully I was slow enough.

966
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:52,980
So yeah, I learned with some stations, I can go faster than with others.

967
01:23:52,980 --> 01:23:56,160
And so I try to adjust the speed based on that.

968
01:23:58,060 --> 01:24:01,120
I don't know if we can throw that one up on the screen.

969
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:02,480
Yeah, you're ready for the reveal?

970
01:24:02,700 --> 01:24:03,500
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

971
01:24:03,500 --> 01:24:04,020
Sure thing.

972
01:24:04,020 --> 01:24:08,100
And then if any questions on, well, why did that go there?

973
01:24:08,100 --> 01:24:10,680
Or that was really confusing.

974
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:11,420
How come this?

975
01:24:11,420 --> 01:24:12,540
Or, you know, that type of thing.

976
01:24:14,140 --> 01:24:18,400
Yeah, definitely wanted to give that clarity type of thing.

977
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:21,760
Or if you're experts, then you could take Justin.

978
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:26,280
And, you know, we'll double check that, you know, things are good.

979
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:30,240
And then we had some questions during the presentation part.

980
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:32,160
I want to jump in on those as well.

981
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:35,200
And if any other questions type of thing.

982
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,560
Otherwise, silence is acceptance.

983
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,720
Let's go to Justin's demo here.

984
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:44,440
Sure.

985
01:24:44,740 --> 01:24:45,240
All right.

986
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,960
Well, yep, I have one more if you want to try it again.

987
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:51,520
And again, as they say, every NAT usually has their own personality.

988
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,040
So mine might sound a little bit different.

989
01:24:53,100 --> 01:24:55,060
So I'll go ahead and get started.

990
01:24:55,100 --> 01:25:18,640
Please copy message number one, three, routine, kilo, echo, eight, Mike, Yankee, Foxtrot, one, eight, Grand Rapids, I spell Romeo, Alpha, Papa, India, Delta, Sierra, Michigan, August 9.

991
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:21,540
Going to your station.

992
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:22,540
Break.

993
01:25:23,500 --> 01:25:25,360
Go.

994
01:25:25,820 --> 01:25:27,600
All right.

995
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:37,680
Thanks for attending this talk.

996
01:25:37,760 --> 01:26:08,940
And hope to, I spell Tango Oscar, C, I spell Sierra, Echo, Echo, U, all at mixed group, Delta, Charlie, two, niner, initial X-ray, hack, the planet, figures 73.

997
01:26:08,940 --> 01:26:09,860
Break.

998
01:26:11,140 --> 01:26:12,740
Go ahead.

999
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:21,560
Signed Justin, amateur call, kilo, echo, eight, Mike, Yankee, Foxtrot, end message number one, three, no more, how copy?

1000
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,020
Roger, one, three, thanks for the traffic.

1001
01:26:24,260 --> 01:26:26,040
It's that, Debbie, we do it here.

1002
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:27,120
Yeah.

1003
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:30,480
Very good, let's do a reveal on that.

1004
01:26:32,800 --> 01:26:34,860
Here we go, that's what it should look like.

1005
01:26:42,260 --> 01:26:47,680
All right, yeah, so on that one, we also had a mixed group in there with a DC -29, that's another thing to keep out .

1006
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:59,580
And when I mentioned the word two, I made sure to spell it out, just so it's 100% accurate, and someone didn't write Tango Oscar Oscar on accident, they would spell Tango Oscar.

1007
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:04,080
So that's, when there's words like that, it's always important to make sure you spell those out.

1008
01:27:06,780 --> 01:27:11,580
Very good, we'll leave this up here for a few seconds and go to Q&A.

1009
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:14,120
I guess let's go there now.

1010
01:27:14,180 --> 01:27:16,600
So, let's go to the chats.

1011
01:27:17,480 --> 01:27:23,600
Hit up Discord, Presentation Chat, or Twitch, and we'll get some questions.

1012
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:29,720
But I guess first, you wanted to go over questions from the video, so go ahead, Aaron.

1013
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:30,480
Oh, okay.

1014
01:27:30,480 --> 01:27:32,940
All right, we had two that came up during that.

1015
01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:42,540
First one, do you know if and how other local and section traffic nets discourage use of the Internet or national traffic system relay?

1016
01:27:42,540 --> 01:27:50,660
So the heart of that question really is how does the Internet play in with relaying traffic?

1017
01:27:50,660 --> 01:28:01,240
And I mean, you could think of that as Echo Link, or maybe if you're on All Star, or something like that, where you're leveraging the Internet for moving things.

1018
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:06,800
From the national traffic system side, we really want things to go over the air.

1019
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:13,300
We are preparing for when infrastructure is not available.

1020
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:17,780
And sometimes you get the pushback of, well, when will that really happen?

1021
01:28:18,020 --> 01:28:30,740
And you know, T-Mobile, third party, had an issue on their end, and it disrupted cellular communications, essentially across the board.

1022
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:34,740
That's the scenario we're preparing for.

1023
01:28:34,900 --> 01:28:44,900
And so if we get into the habit of, well, I've got to relay this traffic from Dallas to, you know, I don't know, Washington, or California, or Massachusetts, or something.

1024
01:28:44,900 --> 01:28:47,880
And it's, well, I'll just hop on Echo Link and go over the Internet and do that.

1025
01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:51,180
And we built that habit of, we're just going to use the Internet.

1026
01:28:51,180 --> 01:29:02,080
And when things really do hit the fan, and we've got to go over the air, you kind of have to now start getting into that over-the-air HF handling.

1027
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:03,780
That's not the time we want to do that.

1028
01:29:03,780 --> 01:29:13,540
We want to practice that now and build that muscle memory now so that when the event does happen, we can just flow into it and run with it.

1029
01:29:13,540 --> 01:29:28,920
And by using HF now, if there is a piece of traffic that stalls or something like that, we can investigate and understand and improve the traffic system so that we're ready to roll when something does happen.

1030
01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:33,700
If we try to shortcut that and use the Internet, well, I couldn't get over HF, so I just dived on the Internet.

1031
01:29:33,700 --> 01:29:36,780
And we haven't really addressed what's going on.

1032
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:49,860
Internet, some independent traffic nets use Echo Link or things, but from the ARL side, we really wanted to move over the air to reflect a real-world situation type of thing.

1033
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:59,180
If that hopefully provides the clarity there, if there's something I can clarify a little further, feel free to throw it in the discussion.

1034
01:29:59,660 --> 01:30:04,380
The other question we had was, international radiograms are always in English.

1035
01:30:05,440 --> 01:30:16,940
For traffic originating in the U.S., the common language that's over the air for us is English, because that's one of the common languages here in the U.S.

1036
01:30:16,940 --> 01:30:26,520
If I had something that entered the system, let's say in Spanish, I'm in Dallas, that would be a good candidate for another language I might have.

1037
01:30:26,720 --> 01:30:40,840
If I had no other option, I had no interpreters of things, and my quasi-Spanish skills could make it work, then I would try my best to try and make that move.

1038
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:48,040
Now, there's some assumptions that happen with that, that the people that get that along the way are going to be able to do the same thing.

1039
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:56,180
That's the risk when you start taking traffic in a language other than English.

1040
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:06,300
The thing has got to keep moving, and you have to move it within the system that really the majority of us are all speaking English.

1041
01:31:06,940 --> 01:31:13,960
If you want to amplify that example even further, what if it was Chinese or Japanese or something, right?

1042
01:31:14,820 --> 01:31:17,940
That just adds even more complexity to things.

1043
01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:23,220
When we're moving traffic here in the U.S., and the national traffic system against U.S.

1044
01:31:23,220 --> 01:31:33,720
and Canada, English is the language that's commonly used for that, and drives the very, very, very, very, very vast majority of traffic.

1045
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,600
I have not encountered anything that wasn't in English.

1046
01:31:36,600 --> 01:31:44,400
And if it's headed to Peter in Germany, I know I've had some traffic from Great Britain, so it'll be English.

1047
01:31:44,580 --> 01:31:47,260
But things moving in and out, it's English.

1048
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:50,960
Very good.

1049
01:31:51,700 --> 01:31:53,720
Let's go to the chats.

1050
01:31:53,900 --> 01:31:57,120
Twitch and Discord, everybody, throw your questions out there.

1051
01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,880
We'll get Aaron to answer for us.

1052
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,680
I think the talk was so good, everything was answered.

1053
01:32:08,540 --> 01:32:14,260
And then I think you had the two big questions just there, so we'll keep it open here for a minute.

1054
01:32:14,260 --> 01:32:16,060
It is very...

1055
01:32:16,060 --> 01:32:20,380
it's kind of like, okay, here's the fire hose, and enjoy.

1056
01:32:20,780 --> 01:32:26,040
So I give this talk once a month.

1057
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:30,400
My next one is this coming Saturday.

1058
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:34,920
K8AMH.com forward slash events.

1059
01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:43,180
I have some folks that take it a couple of times where the first time is, all right, I'm ready to be overwhelmed.

1060
01:32:43,460 --> 01:32:47,780
And then you kind of have some time to kind of digest.

1061
01:32:48,060 --> 01:32:52,160
But then come back to the next one, and you go, oh, yeah, I remember that.

1062
01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:53,280
Or, oh, okay.

1063
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:55,580
It's just kind of the frame of reference changes.

1064
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:02,800
if this is kind of like, oh, my, holy crap, this is a bunch.

1065
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:07,440
You're welcome to jump back in again, of course, type of thing.

1066
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:10,620
There's definitely a lot to absorb.

1067
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:14,060
It's not something that's learned in 10 minutes.

1068
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,200
It's something that's built in time.

1069
01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:19,040
That muscle memory gets built with time.

1070
01:33:20,060 --> 01:33:24,360
Does this system get used for QSL card equivalent sometimes?

1071
01:33:24,740 --> 01:33:25,680
Yes.

1072
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:33,100
We'll get traffic sometimes that, you know, great hearing you on HF or something along that line type of thing.

1073
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:36,180
Hope to hear from you again or those types of things.

1074
01:33:36,180 --> 01:33:41,220
It's something that moves across the traffic system.

1075
01:33:42,220 --> 01:33:45,740
We get those types of radiograms.

1076
01:33:45,740 --> 01:33:47,880
We get the happy birthday, merry Christmas.

1077
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:55,720
We get the welcome to the hobbies or ask about areas in your area or those types of things.

1078
01:33:56,480 --> 01:34:04,480
We've had a couple of things that we're doing here to help with generating some variety in traffic too that I can quickly mention.

1079
01:34:04,480 --> 01:34:08,980
One's a trivia program where once a week there's a new question that comes up.

1080
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:15,800
And you can send in your answer for points and the points are just kind of , you know, why not?

1081
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,280
I'll get some statistics.

1082
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:22,660
But, you know, say you got five right in the last couple months or that type of thing.

1083
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:27,160
But you send your answers as radiograms to the traffic system.

1084
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:30,900
And I get to see how long it takes too.

1085
01:34:30,900 --> 01:34:35,800
So it gives me some data points to say, well, how is this system working and did that take, you know, one day or two days?

1086
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:39,040
And on average it takes two days for things to move across the country.

1087
01:34:39,480 --> 01:34:42,220
But if you get that occasional, why did that take two weeks?

1088
01:34:42,220 --> 01:34:49,860
Then you have the opportunity to understand and try and improve things to make it better for next time type of thing.

1089
01:34:52,380 --> 01:34:54,360
ntstrivia.com is the place for that one.

1090
01:34:54,680 --> 01:35:05,640
And I also have a pen pal program where I kind of hook you up with another traffic handler and you kind of start the conversation of getting to know each other through radiograms type of thing.

1091
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:10,300
So it's exactly pen pals, except instead of letters in the mail, it's traffic through the traffic system.

1092
01:35:10,300 --> 01:35:13,300
And that's at ntspenpal.com.

1093
01:35:13,300 --> 01:35:17,400
I should probably put those addresses in the chat areas.

1094
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:19,700
Might be helpful.

1095
01:35:20,580 --> 01:35:22,240
So why don't I do that?

1096
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:26,980
We'll throw that in chat and definitely include it in the metadata for the video.

1097
01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:28,800
Thank you, Aaron.

1098
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:29,800
Thank you, Justin.

1099
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:31,540
I think we're out of time.

1100
01:35:32,060 --> 01:35:35,920
Let's give a virtual round of applause.

1101
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:37,800
That was an amazing presentation.

1102
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:39,840
Definitely a lot to absorb.

1103
01:35:40,220 --> 01:35:42,640
I hope this system gets used more.

1104
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:47,000
I'd definitely like to see some more radiograms in my local area.

1105
01:35:47,060 --> 01:35:48,580
That's very great.

1106
01:35:48,580 --> 01:35:49,540
Thank you.

1107
01:35:49,540 --> 01:35:50,120
Perfect.

1108
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:50,840
Thanks, everybody.

1109
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:53,440
And if you have any questions, k8mh at arl.net.

1110
01:35:53,440 --> 01:35:54,300
Feel free.

1111
01:35:54,480 --> 01:35:56,460
Everyone have a great day.

1112
01:35:56,600 --> 01:35:57,020
Thank you.