At this point in time most of the traffic is ham to ham. like welcome to ham radio, your license is about to expire, welcome to a new ham club (group of hams) etc..Some of these are also confirmation of messages received, birthday greetings and the like... This ia a free public service sponsored by NTS and the ARRL and if fact was one of the first ham related activities... The "relay" in American Radio RELAY League (ARRL) refers to this aspect of the hobby. There still are the messages to the general public. In the times of communication emergencies (which is the prime reason for the existence of NTS) there are many health and welfare related messages....Many of these cannot be handled or delivered by any other means when the infrastructure supporting , the traditional phone system, cell phones and email disappears...The routine messages are a way of keeping the skills of trained operators honed or oiled if you will, to respond in a structured fashion in an emergency or disaster without giving it a second thought... It becomes part of your operating skills. "Amateur Radio -When all else fails." Individual stations operating without any infrastructure but within a structured system, on emergency power, if necessary, have always been the hallmark of ham radio.
Note, that what I have been discussing is the digital aspect of NTS... Similar activites as well as traffic volume exists within the traditional NTS systems. NTS Digital is only a complementary system to traditional NTS and interfaces with it at all levels of NTS structure, from Transcontential Corps (TCC) to area, region, section and local.. Indeed the automated portion of NTS Digital would not be successfull without these links to the traditional NTS operator structure 73 Dave WB2FTX ----- Original Message ----- From: Howard Brown To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: [illinoisdigitalham] Re: [psk31] Global Emergency Network Marks Record Hello David, I would like to ask what type of traffic is involved in the messages you mentioned (10,000 messages in Oct 2008). I was surprised because so many people use email and cell phones. Where does this volume come from? Howard K5HB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Struebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tom Hesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Scott Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Russell T Hack jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Richard Krohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Pierre Mainville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Norman Schklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KW1U Marcia Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KC2ANN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John W. Tipka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; John Miller N1UMJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Greg Szpunar (N2GS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Gil Follett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; George Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Frank Van Cleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Frank Fallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ewald, Steve, WV1X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Earl Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Earl Leach (WX4J) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Dave Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Dan Ostroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Dale Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Benson Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:22:53 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: [illinoisdigitalham] Re: [psk31] Global Emergency Network Marks Record Just for the record... My original comments were made tongue in cheek.... But for the record.... NTS Digital operates 24/7 on 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, and 15 meters... There are mutiple stations that do this, again primarily dedicated to NTS traffic... Some of the delivery points are made through packet links, the rest are by individual liasions to the traditional NTS system...For the month of October 2008, Eastern Area NTSD (and that's Eastern Area only, Central and Pacific also have their own totals) handled over 10,000 NTS messages.... 73 Dave WB2FTX Eastern Area Digital Coordinator- NTSD [snip] ,_._,___ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1804 - Release Date: 11/21/2008 6:24 PM
