REPUBLIC OF PERILO AMATEUR RADIO NATIONAL TRAFFIC SYSTEM

The Amateur Radio National Traffic System's mission is to rapidly transmit personal messages for third parties across the Republic as a service to the general public.  The System was established in 1933, and over the past five years has average over 12,000 messages handled a year.  Approximately 200 licensed amateur radio operators participate in the system.

The key components of a message include (detailed instructions are included in Joint SOP 3):

• Header

                Message number

                Precedence

                Word Check

                Originating Station

                Originating Place Name

                Date of origination

                Time (in Universal Coordinated Time) of origination

• Address and telephone number of addressee

• Body of the message

• Signature 

The process of message delivery is as follows:

(1)  a member of the general public contacts a member of the System to request that a message be sent.  This contact may be based on personal knowledge of an operator, by leaving a message at one of the radio stations located in Constabulary Barracks, airports, military installations, or emergency operations centers, post offices, or amateur radio clubs, or by entering a message through an internet web page.  Messages may be no longer than 25 words.

(2) a local amateur radio operator lists traffic with the Net Control Station and transmits the message to a Transnational Corps Liaison Station on one of the five provincial high frequency traffic nets (including the net for the National Capital Region).

(3) traffic passed to Transnational Corps Liaison Stations is then routed to the appropriate destination provincial net Liaison Station on the daily  Transnational Corps net.

(4) The Liaison Station will then list the traffic and its destination with the Provincial Net Net Control Station for routing to an amateur radio station serving the destination.

Average delivery time for messages is under 24 hours. 

The Amateur Radio National Traffic System becomes part of the Amateur Radio Disaster Corps in declared states of emergency and disaster and provides the trunk communications system for the Amateur Radio Disaster Corps.