STM REPORT EMA SECTION OCTOBER 2009

NET         SES   QTC   QNI   QTR   NM
EM2MN       30    521   202   380   N1TPU
EMRIPN      28    231   83    286   WA1FNM
HHTN        19    81    87    364   K1YCQ
WARPSN      04    08    68    NA    NI1X

QTC=Traffic  QNI=Checkins  QTR=Minutes

CALL        TOTAL       PSHR
N1IQI       1457        115
W1GMF       858         120
N1UMJ       648         210
KW1U        677         NA
K1YCQ       393         110
N1LKJ       353         120
KD1LE       94          105
KK1X        33          136
WA1FNM      05          NA

BPL EARNED 500 OR MORE: N1IQI W1GMF N1UMJ KW1U
Congratulations on a job WELL DONE.
Jim N1LKJ

How to properly respond to Monthly RACES Message HXC

In the Eastern Massachusetts election, Mike Neilsen, W1MPN, of Hudson, defeated incumbent Section Manager Art Greenberg, K1GBX, of Georgetown. Neilsen received 660 votes to Greenberg's 224. Neilsen served as Eastern Massachusetts Section Manager from January 2005-December 2006. Just prior to his first term as Section Manager, he served as the Section Emergency Coordinator for the Section from September 2001-January 2005.

If you like CW or want to improve your Morse Code Skills, the NTS
Traffic Nets is a great place to do it. We are looking for operators to
join us on the East MA. & Rhode Island CW Net. (EMARICW)

The Net meets daily at 7:00PM on 3.565. If you think it is too fast,
just send QNS and they will slow down to anyone's speed. Try it
and enjoy the fun of sending and receiving traffic. Help is available
for all who want to learn.

73,
Jim Ward N1LKJ  STM-EMA

It reads:

ARL SIXTY SEVEN:
YOUR MESSAGE NUMBER ___ UNDELIVERABLE BECAUSE OF ___. PLEASE ADVISE.

Message to be sent would read:
ARL SIXTY SEVEN 123 WRONG PHONE NUMBER

Gil W1GMF

It reads:

ARL FORTY SEVEN:
REFERENCE YOUR MESSAGE NUMBER ___ TO ___ DELIVERED ON ___ AT ___ UTC.

Message to be sent would read:
ARL FORTY SEVEN 123 N1ABC FEB 22 2100

Gil W1GMF

Greetings all,

After more than a year with no manager other than my feeble attempts to hold things together, we finally have a candidate for manager of 1RN cycle 2. John Miller N1UMJ has been active on the net for some time now and has agreed to take the job. I'm putting out a call for any further nominations once again, and if none are forthcoming I would like to have John appointed effective July 1, 2007. Section managers please pass this along to your STMs where appropriate. Thanks.

73, Marcia Forde KW1U
Eastern Area Staff Chair

[Western MA] ASM Northwest Ralph Swick, KD1SM will be teaching a NTS Traffic Handling refresher course. This class will take place on 03/24/2007 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Worcester ECC Building (i.e. National Guard Building) at 50 Skyline Drive, Worcester. The course is free and open to all area hams.

The class will go over NTS traffic writing, net protocol and procedure and tactical messaging. Students are strongly encouraged to bring with them a notepad, pen and HT.

If you are new to Emergency Communications and/or the National Traffic System or just in need of a refresher this is a good beginners program from which to learn.

We would appreciate a rough head count, so if you think you will be attending, please email Mark Rubin, WB1ARZ, whom is hosting the event on behalf of the Worcester Emergency Communications Team.

--Thanks, wma.arrl.org

"Trump's Traffic Trilogy" - by Ed "FB" Trump, AL7N
"Getting down to the nitty-gritty of actually doing it."

Special care is required when preparing written third party message traffic for transmission over the amateur NTS traffic networks. What is third party traffic?
The generally accepted definition is "written or voice traffic between the control operator of one amateur station (first party) and the control operator of another amateur station (second party) on behalf of another person (third party)”. Usually it amounts to short written noncommercial messages between people who are not necessarily amateur radio operators".


The objective of the NTS is to cause these written messages to transit the system, word for word, character for character, and be able to be handled without alteration via any of the common modes of transmission currently in use such as CW, SSB, VHF-FM or PACTOR. It is important to reproduce the message at the far end of the system exactly as it was initially sent, regardless of mode transition en route.

The main source for any volume of such traffic is usually either of two occurrences.
1. An unplanned event, which forces people to use the Amateur NTS traffic networks due to failure or overload of normal regular commercial facilities or,
2. A planned event, such as a convention, fair or other public gathering that encourages use of the amateur traffic networks more or less as a novelty.
In either case, the average person will need help in composing their messages so they can be properly and expeditiously handled by the NTS network operators. This will be especially so with Health & Welfare traffic coming from disaster shelters in times of emergency.

I am proud to report that on Jan 01, 2006 the Heavy Hitters Traffic Net will be operating on the MMRA repeater system. I am very happy that the MMRA officials came forward and offered the use of their system for our nets. This will offer us a wider range of RF coverage with the hopes of getting more people interested.

The nets will be held at 2200 hrs Monday thru Friday. The list of repeaters involved are listed on the HHTN page on this site. The link is in the left column on this page under EMA Nets.

Remember to wait 2 seconds after keying to speak. This allows the links to come up so you will be heard.

I would like to thank the Boston Amateur Radio Club for the use of their Boston repeater for our net for the past year. It has been a great repeater and it is a great service to the radio community.

Hope you hear you on the nets.

Byron Piette K1YCQ
HHTN Net Manager