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For more on Tactical Addresses including how to set them up using Winlink Express see [[Using Winlink Tactical Addresses]] | For more on Tactical Addresses including how to set them up using Winlink Express see [[Using Winlink Tactical Addresses]] | ||
=== Preparing Your Traffic | === Preparing Your Traffic === | ||
If you have Emergency or Priority messages, prepare these messages by creating Winlink messages using the ICS 213 template. | If you have Emergency or Priority messages, prepare these messages by creating Winlink messages using the ICS 213 template. Alternative: Transcribe Emergency messages onto a NET Form 8 rather than entering it into a Winlink ICS 213 template. | ||
Note: If the message you are transcribing does not have approval information, put “...” in the corresponding fields of the Winlink Form so it allows you to submit it. | Note: If the message you are transcribing does not have approval information, put “...” in the corresponding fields of the Winlink Form so it allows you to submit it. | ||
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* Set To field of the Winlink message to W7ECC. | * Set To field of the Winlink message to W7ECC. | ||
If you have Emergency | === Contacting EOC When You Have Emergency Traffic === | ||
If you have Emergency Traffic, contact Tactical Net on MC-8 informing it about these messages before transcribing Priority messages. Tactical Net may | |||
* take your Emergency messages by voice; | * take your Emergency messages by voice; | ||
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If you have previously posted Emergency messages in your Outbox that have not yet been transmitted and you have just transcribed a new Priority message, it is best not to put it directly in your Outbox as you shouldn’t tie up the gateway transmitting messages of two or more precedence levels. Instead of posting the lower precedence message directly to your Outbox, click on Save in Drafts. You can move the messages in your Draft folder to your Outbox after you have transmitted your higher priority messages. Alternatively, you can copy messages in your Draft folder to personal folders named “Priority”, “HealthWelfare” and “Routine” and later copy messages of a particular precedence to your Outbox. | If you have previously posted Emergency messages in your Outbox that have not yet been transmitted and you have just transcribed a new Priority message, it is best not to put it directly in your Outbox as you shouldn’t tie up the gateway transmitting messages of two or more precedence levels. Instead of posting the lower precedence message directly to your Outbox, click on Save in Drafts. You can move the messages in your Draft folder to your Outbox after you have transmitted your higher priority messages. Alternatively, you can copy messages in your Draft folder to personal folders named “Priority”, “HealthWelfare” and “Routine” and later copy messages of a particular precedence to your Outbox. | ||
If you have Priority messages and you have already handled any Emergency messages, you should post your Priority messages to your Winlink Outbox or copy any Priority messages you have previously saved in other folders to your Outbox and then follow the instructions in Transmitting and Receiving Traffic Using a Gateway. | If you have Priority messages and you have already handled any Emergency messages, you should post your Priority messages to your Winlink Outbox or copy any Priority messages you have previously saved in other folders to your Outbox and then follow the instructions in ''Transmitting and Receiving Traffic Using a Gateway'' below. | ||
If you have Health & Welfare or Routine messages you can prepare them in the same way as described above, but do not put them in your Winlink Outbox until EOC has told you that it is taking messages at those precedence. Instead select “Save in Drafts” and wait until it is time to transmit them to move them to your Outbox. | If you have Health & Welfare or Routine messages you can prepare them in the same way as described above, but do not put them in your Winlink Outbox until EOC has told you that it is taking messages at those precedence. Instead select “Save in Drafts” and wait until it is time to transmit them to move them to your Outbox. | ||
=== Preparing Traffic for another Regional Subnet === | |||
If a Team ARO has a net Form 8 that is intended for another team, consider its precedence. | |||
* If it is an Emergency Message you should transcribe it on a NET Form 8 or and ICS 213 and then contact the regional subnet for the team for which the message is intended. As you will probably not know which subnet that team has checked into you should contact Tactical Net on MC-8 and request the regional subnet associated with the team. | |||
* If the message is a Priority message, you should transcribe the message into a Winlink ICS Form 213 as described above. Then contact Tactical Net to obtain the regional subnet associated with the destination of the message. Then use the table of Regional Tactical Addresses above to address the Winlink message. | |||
=== Transmitting and Receiving Traffic Using a Gateway === | === Transmitting and Receiving Traffic Using a Gateway === | ||
