[KYHAM] Re: Ky Section Traffic Planning in Progress

[Ron Dodson]

I realize several of you may wonder WHY I asked for current net
info from everyone on their local nets.  Yes, I know about the
ARES nets that report their activity each month as far as
frequency etc.  However, net time and days might change or
repeater PL's etc.  By sending me a current info on the net such
as the sample below, I can be sure of having the info all up to
date.  Don't forget to advise us of future changes too.

Sample net info:

Wide Area Repeaters Net (WARN) Sunday 8:30 PM Eastern time on the
146.625 - PL 151.4 hz (K4ULW Repeater) located at Payneville, Ky
(Meade County)  also linked to the 443.350 + (No PL) (K4ULW
Repeater) in Louisville, Ky.  
Net Purpose: local training/coordination, tactical and Skywarn
activity.

73, 
Ron, KA4MAP  


Ron Dodson wrote:
> 
> Since 1949, the National Traffic System (NTS) and
> Transcontinental Corps (TCC) have relayed messages across the
> nation during disasters and even daily for personal greetings
> (Holidays, Birthdays etc.).  Most of you already are well aware
> that the National Traffic System will be undergoing change in the
> coming near future.  Effective January 1, 2004 it will become a
> part of the ARES program within this section. Sections across
> America are all seeing similar events.  Details are still sketchy
> about the exact future of the National Traffic System (as we
> currently know it) and I have held off on working toward
> developing a Section Traffic Plan (STP) to this point.  The
> reason being that the final look of the Ky section's traffic plan
> will depend greatly on the final look of the national
> "Transcontinental Corps (TCC)" level design of the system.
> Regardless of WHAT the final end-animal looks like, we have a
> need to maintain a organized means of passing traffic from point
> A to point B in times when normal communications are
> unavailable.
> 
> Some "knowns" continuing onward from January 1, 2004 are the
> following:
> 
> On the HF bands we know that we have the Ky Emergency Net (KEN)
> which serves as the section coordination and training net during
> the once per week session each Monday evening on 3.888 MHz. at 8
> PM Eastern Time.  KEN is also our section "tactical" frequency
> during drills and emergency operations that affect either
> multiple regions or the state as a whole. "Tactical Traffic" most
> usually takes the form of verbal transmissions from point to
> point (for the new comer's among us). It MAY be written traffic,
> but also may simply be a verbal exchange, which is the norm.
> 
> The majority of any radiogram style written traffic either
> entering or leaving the section as well as moving across the
> state will continue to be handled on the lower sideband, Ky
> Traffic Net (KTN) on 3.960 MHz. and our two daily CW nets;
> Kentucky CW Net (KYN) on 3.599 MHz CW at 8:00 PM Eastern and the
> Kentucky Slow Speed CW Net on 3.721 MHz CW 10:00 PM Eastern
> time.  None of this is changing except for the dropping of the
> daily morning KTN session.  Hams on HF in the morning hours will
> be finding a new "Good Morning Ky, Phone Net" for fellowship and
> camaraderie.
> 
> While awaiting the end word on national developments in future
> traffic movement, I have decided that we do need to begin
> gathering info on local VHF and UHF nets involved in ARES
> "tactical" activity across the section as well as those nets
> (some may likely be "independent nets" or "club nets") which
> would handle localized health and welfare inquiries from the
> outside world.
> 
> If you have a VHF or UHF local or semi-regional net which is
> tactical in nature or an existing net interested in being a local
> "written radiogram style" or other written traffic type traffic
> nets please send me all current net info so that work can begin
> on a Kentucky Section Traffic Plan (STP).
> 
> The Section Traffic Plan (STP) will first be done as a draft
> which would be sent to DEC and EC level ARES staff for input
> before a final end document will be promulgated for distribution
> and use. The finished STP will be an attachment to the section's
> Ky Emergency Response Reference (KERR) which is also now
> undergoing a re-write.
> 
> Ron Dodson, KA4MAP
> Ky Section Emergency Coordinator
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