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These forms are used by | These forms are used by teams to communicate with the Portland ECC and other teams. For example, if a NET ITL for a particular team wished to ask a question to the NET Coordinator at the ECC, they would put the question on a Form 8 and pass it to the team's ARO. The ARO would notify their subnet control operator of the need to route the Form 8 message as well as precedence of the message. When the control operator gives the "go-ahead" the ARO would read the message and the control operator would transcribe it. The control operator would then route the message to the ECC radio room. When a reply becomes available, the radio room would route it back to the subnet control operator for delivery to the originating team's ARO, who would pass it to the team's ITL. | ||
These forms are simple; the format makes completing them self-explanatory. However, volunteers should practice composing messages easy and quick to read over the air. For example, you should never recite Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' over the air on amateur radio. But you could write the following message for the ARO to recite: | These forms are simple; the format makes completing them self-explanatory. However, volunteers should practice composing messages easy and quick to read over the air. For example, you should never recite Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' over the air on amateur radio. But you could write the following message for the ARO to recite: | ||