NTS

National Traffic System (NTS), traffic handling
All / NTS

EMA NTS PICNIC 2008

- by admin - Leave a Comment

Jim N1LKJ

EMA TRAFFIC HANDLERS PICNIC SUNDAY AUGUST 3, 2008

The annual Traffic Handlers Picnic for EMA will be held Sunday August 3, 2008 at the Raynham Senior Citizen Center picnic area in Raynham, MA. The picnic will run from 12:00PM to 4:00PM. Your host Jim N1LKJ will provide hamburgers. Bring your own soft drinks. No Alcohol is allowed because its on Town Property. If you wish to bring cookies or cakes to share with the group, that would be great.

There are two barbecues for those who want to cook there oun food. There is also toilet facilities available. A great chance to eyeball people you have been hearing all year. A good time for all.

Directions: From RT 24 NORTH OR SOUTH. Take Exit 13 west to Taunton, which is route 44. Follow 44 west 1.5 miles to set of lights. Brooks Pharmacy on corner. Take right on to RT 104 Raynham. Follow 104 1/2 mile, take first left on to King Phillip ST. Follow King Phillip 1/4 mile to Raynham Senior Citizen Center on left. Pull right into parking lot. Picnic area on the left.

See you there.

Jim N1LKJ
All / NTS

Cape and Islands Traffic Net Change

- by admin - Leave a Comment

EMA NTS logoMike Wilbur, N2JWW writes:

I am glad to announce effective June 11 the Cape and Islands Traffic Net will move to the N1YHS 147.375 repeater, PL 110.9. It is a new machine in Falmouth with excellent coverage both on and off cape and both islands.

I hope this move will enhance the net and allow more folks to get into the net. As always I am looking for anyone who would like to be a net control, just drop me an e-mail at n2jww.at.arrl.net.

Try and stay cool and I look forward to hearing more folks on the net.

73 de Mike N2JWW Net manager CITN 1 1 1

All / NTS

Cape and Islands Traffic Net Change

- by admin - Leave a Comment

EMA NTS logoMike Wilbur, N2JWW writes:

I am glad to announce effective June 11 the Cape and Islands Traffic Net will move to the N1YHS 147.375 repeater, PL 110.9. It is a new machine in Falmouth with excellent coverage both on and off cape and both islands.

I hope this move will enhance the net and allow more folks to get into the net. As always I am looking for anyone who would like to be a net control, just drop me an e-mail at n2jww.at.arrl.net.

Try and stay cool and I look forward to hearing more folks on the net.

73 de Mike N2JWW Net manager CITN

All / Field Day / NTS

Heavy Hitters Traffic Net Special Event for Field Day 2008

- by admin - Leave a Comment

Hello to all….

Heavey Hitters Traffic Net Manager, Byron Piette-K1YCQ, will be sponsoring a special edition of the Heavy Hitters Traffic Net to allow clubs and Field Day groups to bring NTS traffic related to Field Day to the net for points on Field Day. Below is information on the net.

Here is the info about the Field Day Net.

Heavy Hitters Traffic Net is sponsoring a Special Events Fielday Traffic Net on 6/28/08 @ 10 pm. on the MMRA and linked System. The purpose of this net is to allow clubs to bring their Fielday generated Traffic for Points to the net .Clubs can earn 100 points for sending an appropriate message to the Section Mgr. and also may receive 10 points for each additional message Originated ,Received,Sent,or Relayed OR ANY combination thereof,up to a Maxium of 10messages.

Messages MUST be in NTS format ONLY Brief and to the point ,ONLY Fielday /Point traffic is allowed on this special net Clubs /Stations are advised to check Frequencies to be used on the MMRA linked system at
http://www.mmra.org

Please have on hand a sufficient supply of ARRL “RADIOGRAM” forms. This will help you a lot.
They may be copied at http://www.ema.arrl.org

WE wish to thank MMRA and its Officers for the use of their great system (they are a super group. WE thank also the operators of the “linked systems” to the mmra

Please join us on our regular nets Mon.-Fri. at 10 pm. Traffic/Rag chew if time permits.

J,Byron Piette

HHTN Net Mgr.

—

Respectfully Submitted,

Robert Macedo (KD1CY)
ARES SKYWARN Coordinator
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator
Pager #: (508) 354-3142
Home Phone #: (508) 994-1875 (After 6 PM)
Home/Data #: (508) 997-4503 (After 6 PM)
Work Phone #: 1-800-445-2588 Ext.: 72929 (8 AM-5 PM)
Email Address: rmacedo@rcn.com
http://ares.ema.arrl.org
http://www.wx1box.org
1

All / Field Day / NTS

Heavy Hitters Traffic Net “Field Day” Edition

- by admin - Leave a Comment

The Heavy Hitters Traffic Net, one of the primary VHF FM local NTS nets in Eastern MA will run on a special field day schedule, according to John Miller, N1UMJ.

“HHTN will have a special ‘field day edition’ on Saturday night,” says Miller. HHTN convenes at 10:00 pm ET on the MMRA linked repeater network.

“It should have all the usual Monday-through-Friday Heavy Hitters NTS repeaters linked in. This way,” explains N1UMJ, “the field day groups that are going to get the bonus points for sending the NTS messages have an outlet to do so they might not normally have.”

[For more information about Field Day and the groups participating in Field Day ’08 in Eastern MA, see http://ema.arrl.org/fd.]
All / NTS

Cape Cod Traffic Plan Exercise

- by admin - Leave a Comment

Hello to all…

The following RACES exercise information came from Bob Mims-WA1OEZ:

Mass. State Police, Mass. Highway, MEMA, VOAD, and several Cape Cod communities will be conducting a hurricane drill to exercise the new Cape Cod Emergency Traffic Plan (CCETP).

As part of this exercise the Region II manager has asked us to open the Region II RACES Network on Tuesday evening, May 13th, leading up to the main exercise day on Wed. May 14TH 2008. We will open all four Region II RACES Nets at 7:00 pm and will have exercise traffic for any and all Region II communities that wish to participate

For further information contact Bob Mims, WA1OEZ, Region II RACES Radio Officer at 508-823-7443 or wa1oez@arrl.net

1

NTS

Western MA ARRL To Offer NTS Traffic Handling Refresher Course

- by admin - Leave a Comment

Western MA ARRL logo[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