Voicing a NET Form 8 or its Reply

(1) When you are ready to reply to a message during a simplex exercise, it may be obvious to the net controller which message you are replying to.  During an actual deployment, however, there may be several messages sent to NET teams from the Emergency Coordination Center.  This multiplicity of messages makes it critical that the net controller receiving the reply matches it correctly to the original message.  To help do so, the subnet controller logs the originating station, date, time and subject of each message.  Thus to assist the controller in identifying the message you are replying to you should provide this information.  In a more complex situation the controller may also ask for the destinations of replies and messages.

Note: Originating station is a tactical call sign and not the name of the person identified in the From field of the message.  The ARO may add it to the From field in parentheses preceded by the abbreviation "OS".  e.g. (OS Tactical Net)

(2) Field numbers are not voiced. Field names are voiced, but not punctuation in the field name. Example. "Time One Nine Zero Zero" rather than "Six Date colon One Nine Zero Zero".

(3) All digits are individually voiced, e.g. "one five" rather than "fifteen".

(4) In the date field the format is nnMMMYYYY and does not need to be preceded by the proword "mixed group figures." The name of the month is voiced, even though the month is written as a 3-letter abbreviation. E.g., November is written "NOV" but voiced "November". The current year is usually assumed. If included, the year is four digits. E.g., 05FEB2020.

(4) Time is local time written with 4 digits using a 24-hour clock with the digits given one at a time and does not need to be preceded by "Figures" when it is part of a time field. Example "Time One Nine Zero Zero" rather than "Time Figures One Nine Zero Zero" or "Time Nineteen Hundred."

(5) Punctuation in the message text is voiced. The decimal and any comma(s) in a number are also voiced. E.g., 32,500.75 would be voiced Figures Three Two comma five zero zero decimal seven five.

(6) In this script below, prowords are red and ITU phonetics are blue with the first letter capitalized. Voiced punctuation in the script is written in lowercase blue, e.g., period, to distinguish punctuation from ITU phonetics.

(7) The proword "Break" is used to indicate the end of the body of the reply.

Example NET Form 8 with Reply

Script for Voicing the Reply Above

ARO

I have a reply to a priority message.

Over

SNC

Go ahead with the originating station, date, time and subject of the original message.

Over

ARO

Originating Station Command Net

Date Five October

Time One Nine Zero Zero

Subject Request for snow coverage

Over

SNC

Roger

Standby

[SNC finds original message.]

Please go ahead with your reply.

ARO

Reply Figure Six inches Break

Replied by Jane Smith

Position: Initials India Tango Lima   South Heights

Date Five October

Time One Nine Three Zero

End of Message How Copy?

SNC

Roger your message reply.

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Please fill between [word heard] and [word heard]