On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 01:16:00PM -0500, Dave Kleber wrote: > This is an interesting debate that I have been involved with in some > other forums on LinkedIn and elsewhere. If you want to be a sticker about it, short of a Star Trek Transporter, you would have to use US Mail or possibly a Fax to get it EXACTLY as it was given to you.
Listen - we let the served agencies know our capabilities - and we deliver as promised. We don't tell them we can give them an exact duplicate of what they gave us. We can let them know it will contain all of the information they need. If they are not impressed with that, then I think you are taking this too seriously. > > There seems to be two schools of thought from emergency managers, > hospital system admins and communications volunteers. > > One is that agencies should have the flexibility of modifying the > ICS forms to better suite their needs. The other is that ICS falls > under the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and all forms > should be in the standard FEMA format > (http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/ICSResource/ICSResCntr_Forms.htm). > > I side with the latter and take the position that there should be no > such thing as a modified standardized form... kinda a contradiction > in terms and theory. And, BTW, much to my dismay... my opinion is in > the minority. > > However, as an amateur radio emcomm volunteer, my job is to send and > receive data and traffic EXACTLY as the served agency presents it to > me and my team members and without error. > > -Dave, KB3FXI > -- Larry Levesque KA1VGM _______________________________________________ fldigi-alpha mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha
