NH-ARES Section Traffic and Coordination Net Training Sessions Held weekly on Saturday from 8:30-9:00am 3945 kHz LSB Purpose: to train Section Net liaison and NCS operators Net Manager: Doug KB1MGL Training Goals: Overall Operational Goals 1. Tight, efficient operation 2. Accurate message tracking 3. Accurate message handling 4. Participation from several assigned liaison stations from each local group for training nets Specific Training Goals 1. Regular liaison stations will participate in as many Saturday training sessions as possible 2. Training subjects will be repeated at least twice yearly 3. The net check-in process will be fast and efficient 4. Stations will not say “this is” and un-key before checking in 5. Stations will use tactical call signs (local group or agency name) to call other stations, and end every completed exchange with tactical AND FCC calls signs 6. The NCS or any station in a long exchange will identify with their FCC call sign at least every ten minutes in addition to the above 7. Information exchanges will use minimum time required 8. Plain language will be used and jargon or codes avoided 9. Stations will use standard pro-words and phonetics where appropriate (See ARECC Level I book) 10. A backup NCS will be assigned during each net session 11. The backup NCS will keep a duplicate set of check-in and message logs and be ready to step in quickly 12. NCS will move stations off the net frequency to pass formal messages 13. NCS will frequently request new check-ins and new traffic 14. NCS will frequently read list of undelivered traffic to the net to alert any delivery stations 15. Liaison stations will sign back into net after moving off net frequency to pass a message 16. Stations will pass formal messages without needing fills (Reading speed, shadow writing) 17. Stations will use a standard fill request procedure 18. Stations will use standard ARRL procedures for formatting and reading messages 19. Net will move efficiently to new net frequency due to interference 20. All stations will get permission to leave net 21. Liaisons will report outbound Winlink messages to addressees via the net by message number and time sent 22. Liaisons will ask local net originating stations to use only the two formal message form types posted on the NH-ARES website forms page (ARRL Radiogram and ICS-213 with the ARRL header) 23. Liaisons will ask local net originating stations to add the ARRL header to formal messages received if not already there 24. Tactical messages will only be sent if the recipient can hear it directly without verbal relays 25. All messages will be routed and delivered as quickly as possible 26. Undeliverable Priority or Emergency messages will result in a service message to the originating station with the same precedence Brief Section Net Training Scripts Saturday Training Net NCS Script

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