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What *I* hate is when said officials give you a message, you pass it on
and then two minutes later they come back and want you to tell the
receiving station something they forgot to put in the original missive.
When I was working emergency comms in new Mexico, I began to require
that the local sheriff's office put messages in writing before I'd send
them. I had them read the messages to me but at least it forced the
dudes to think of what they weregoing to say before they came to me. I
wasn't very popular for a while (I forgot that they were armed) but they
got used to it and, in the end, had to admit that I was correct.
Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Message-Id: <20031119221735.KIKI11940.imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[68.212.102.113]>
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> walt wrote:
> >When I
> >was in Florida, I started telling people that during an emergency
> >net, wasn't the time to learn how to handle traffic. Several times
> >during a hurricane when someone would check in that wanted to send
> >a message and didn't know how. The NCS would pair them off with a
> >regular traffic handler. I did this at least two times, once the
> >message was originated by the other man and the other time I
> >originated the message. Now is the time to learn how to handle
> >traffic.
> NOt just is it a good idea for those who might want to originate
> radiograms, but the skills you develop as a regular traffic handler
> will stand you in good stead if you have to shadow the local official
> with your HT. Even though it's FM a lot of times the station you're
> trying to copy a message from might not be full quieting, or god
> forbid you'll have to go to simplex. VOicing messages to be easily
> copyable by the receiving station is a learned skill as well and
> practice is better when you're not on the sharp end of the rope. Get
> that practice and training now!!!
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> 73 de nf5b
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> Richard Webb
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> Electric Spider Productions
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> Historical review of Pennsylvania
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