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PDF Version (789,268 bytes) · Section I: Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) · Section II: National Traffic System (NTS)

Section I: Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)

Chapter One: Amateur Radio Emergency Service

1.1 ARES Organization

1.2 Section Level

1.3 Local Level

1.4 District Level

1.5 Assistant ECs

1.6 Planning Committee

1.7 Operation and Flexibility

1.8 ARES Operation During Disasters

Chapter Two: Simulated Emergency Test (SET)

2.1 Purpose of SET

2.3 Preparing for SET

2.4 During the SET

2.5 After the SET

Chapter Three: ARES Mutual Assistance Team (ARESMAT) Concept

3.1 Pre-Departure Functions

3.2 In-Travel Functions

3.3 Arrival Functions

3.4 In-situ Functions

3.5 Pre-demobilization and Demobilization Functions

3.6 ARESMAT Member Qualifications

Chapter Four: ARES and RACES

4.1 What is RACES?

4.2 Operating Procedure

4.3 ARES and RACES

4.4 Other Amateur facilities

Chapter Five: ARES Principles of Disaster Communications

Chapter Six: Working With Public Safety Officials

Chapter Seven: On Serving "Served" Agencies

7.1 What to do?

7.2 Pulled Every Which Way But Loose

7.3 Another Kind of Competition

Section II: National Traffic System (NTS)

Chapter One: National Traffic System

1.1 Membership in NTS

Chapter Two: Principles of NTS Operation

2.2 Section Nets

2.3 Region Nets

2.5 Transcontinental Corps

2.6 Digital Stations

Chapter Three: NTS Policies

3.1 Sequence of Net Meetings

3.3 Deviation from Normal Routing

3.4 Adherence to Schedules

3.5 Alternate Routings

3.6 Check-in Policy

3.8 Nomenclature

3.9 Combined Section Nets

3.10 Limited Load Capability

3.11 Observation of Time

3.12 Frequencies

3.13 Manager Appointments

3.14 Certification

3.15 Special Liaison Methods

3.16 Volume Routine Traffic

Chapter Four: Operation During Disasters

4.1 Section Traffic Manager, Net Manager Functions

4.2 Region Net Manager Functions

4.3 Area Net Manager Functions

4.4 Transcontinental Corps Director Functions

4.5 Area Staff Chairman Functions

4.6 General Policy

4.7 Health and Welfare Traffic

Chapter Five: NTS Standard Net Procedures

5.1 Section Nets

5.2 Region Nets

5.4 Send and Receive Stations

5.5 Miscellaneous Procedures

5.6 Section and Local NTS Traffic Nodes

5.7 HF Digital Stations

Chapter Six: ARRL Precedences and Handling Instructions

6.5 Handling Instructions

Chapter Seven: Operation of the Transcontinental Corps

7.1 TCC Station Functions

Chapter Eight: Operation of the Digital System

8.1 HF Digital NTS Operations

8.2 VHF Packet Radio Bulletin Boards

Chapter Nine: NTS Traffic Routing

9.1 Example of NTS Message Routing

9.2 NTS Routing Guide

9.3 Message Routing in the Digital Station Network

Chapter Ten: Counting Net Traffic

10.1 Net Traffic Count

10.2 Individual Traffic Count

Chapter Eleven: On Getting More Traffic

Appendix A: National Traffic System Terms of Reference

Article One: Name

Article Two: Purpose and General Functions

Article Three: Specific Responsibilities

Article Four: Membership

Article Five: Area Staff Chairman

Article Six: Methods and Procedures

Appendix B: NTS Methods and Practices Guidelines

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