I liked it better back in the early 1960's when I was in Navy MARS with the call N0YUI. Of course, today that has been reissued as a ham call. HI
73, Rick, KV9U David Little wrote: > Paul, > > Glad to hear Navy is giving it a try. > > The rest is grossly off-topic, but I feel the need to expand my > understanding..... > > On the Zero, it is a sore point across services, as is the full call > debacle on initial check in that I believe came from Bo's influence. > > I can declare abbreviated calls are authorized, before I establish > ANCS, and take 5 to 8 check ins per minute with out duplicate > transmissions. > > In many cases, using abbreviated calls, I can get an entire working > net of about 20 stations, establish ANCS, make the call for emergency > or priority traffic, have ANCS make the same call, and have 54 minutes > for training, administrative business or emergency net operation. > > Since we have to use full phonetics (Our prefixes are more complex > than NNN), and we never fall back to Abbreviated Call Signs (Our > prefixes are more complex than NNN), and we never give a call sign > non-phonetically (our prefixes are more complex than NNN), and we use > FEMA Region designators to be able to geographically determine the > effectiveness of the net (our prefixes are more complex than > NNN0).... We find that the attempt to require full call signs on > initial check in to be a surefire way to create Chaos. > > Also, in preferring the concept of training the way we would operate > in an emergency, we have generally found that requiring full calls to > NCS, when the net can only have ONE NCS is as well thought out as > being asked if we want fries with our fries, when we just order fries. > > One day, I may be fully expanded enough in mind and maturity to fully > understand the full call requirement. > > I'll bet you guys are still laughing about that part of the new voice SOP. > > Bravo Zulu, > > David > KD4NUE / AAM4__ > > >
