I have forwarded this to a friend that has much the same problem but was able to get around it also.
I'll post his reply if he sends one back as he is not a member of this list. James W8ISS ===== On Friday 09 October 2009 12:59:44 chuck_sprick wrote: > 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
