One of our major Served Agencies(SA)is a local governmental agency who is dictating that all EMCOMM message traffic be formatted on the ICS-213 form before they will accept it. This adds a great deal of overhead to the messages and consumes tons more TX/RX time than simple text, which could be used to pass the same information.
Has anyone else run into this issue? We use Airmail and WL2K on 2 meters via local repeaters during drills and actual emergencies and send the ICS-213 form as a .rtf attachment to the e-mail message. Using QForms seems to work faster, but still is not near as fast as plain text. Any thoughts on this, other than trying to convince the SA that it's the information, not the appearance, that is important? That seems to be a major uphill battle and one our leadership does not want to tackle. We need to train like we'll fight and fight like we've trained. 73, Chuck KE5RAD EC, NE Unit, District 14, ARES
