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=== Calling for Relays ===
=== Calling for Relays ===
The strength of communication will vary from exercise to exercise and operator to operator based on factors like location, elevation, available transmission power and sensitivity and selectivity of receivers. Note that there are many combinations of these factors in a region including a subnet controller who may be in a different location and team AROs in varying locations depending on who is available and the nature of the exercise or deployment.  This unpredictability of simplex communication means that you and the other operators must be ready to ask for and provide relays.  There are at least two cases to consider.
The strength of communication will vary from exercise to exercise and operator to operator based on factors like location, elevation, available transmission power and sensitivity and selectivity of receivers. Note that there are many combinations of these factors in a region including a subnet controller who may be in a different location and team AROs in varying locations depending on who is available and the nature of the exercise or deployment.  This unpredictability of simplex communication means that you and the other operators must be ready to ask for and provide relays.  There are at least two cases to consider -- stations you cannot hear and stations that cannot hear you.


# Stations you may not hear.  To account for this possibility, expect that other stations may offer to provide a relay by using the proword Relay preceded by the precedence of the traffic they wish to relay.  If no precedence is given, you should assume that its precedence is Priority.  If you are not sure that your team AROs are aware of their relay responsibility, you should ask if any station has a relay. When an ARO indicates that they have a relay tell them to go ahead if you are not handling traffic of higher precedence, there is no traffic of higher precedence and there is no traffic of equal precedence ahead of the requested relay. Otherwise, tell the relaying station to stand by after obtaining their tactical call sign.
==== [[Procedure for When Some Operators Cannot Hear Net Control Operator]] ====
# Stations that may not have heard you.  To account for this possibility, choose a station that you believe to be in a different part of your region with equipment sufficient to be heard by other stations and ask them to relay your announcement or request and stand by for them to either say “Nothing heard” or “Relay”.
 
==== [[Procedure for When Net Control Operator Cannot Hear Some Operators]] ====


=== Appointing a Temporary Subnet Controller ===
=== Appointing a Temporary Subnet Controller ===
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