I have worked many public service events & disaster preparedness exercises. One would have to be very creative to get meaningful tactical calls with only 4 characters available. I'm often Lead, so that's fine, but how about all the numbered Aid Station, Event, Mobile, Safety, Bicycle, County, Field Team, Hospital, Siren, Support, Shadow, etc. tactical calls?
When using APRS, we will use the Tactical call in the regular call field and put the FCC call in the status text, which is beaconed every 10 minutes. I haven't tried it, but checking my ID-92AD manual, it seems that a user defined 20 character message can be sent with every PTT activation, so maybe that method could be employed when needed. 73 de Dennis KD7CAC On May 16, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Tony Langdon wrote: > > > At 01:16 AM 5/17/2009, you wrote: > >John is right on the money here. > > > >----- > > > >Tactical Call Sign SOP: > > > >A tactical call sign is entered in the 4 digit comment field after a > >station's legal call sign: > > This would seem to be the most sensible way. > > 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL > http://vkradio.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
