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- Subject: USING TACTICAL CALLSIGNS
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- Amateur Radio stations in the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency
- Service (RACES) and other Incident Command System (ICS)
- communications make maximum use of tactical callsigns and minimum
- use of Amateur Radio callsigns. Net Control Station (NCS)
- operators shall assure that this practice is followed and correct
- non-compliant operators, on the air if necessary, to assure that
- this is observed.
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- A tactical call remains unchanged for the duration of an incident
- or a net. Amateur Radio callsigns can change with the operators
- and thereby cause confusion in the system.
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- The Amateur Radio callsign need be given only:
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- 1. At the end of a two-way communication.
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- 2. At the end of an unanswered call by the calling station.
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- 3. In observance of the 10-minute rule.
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- No callsign is necessary in a two-way conversation once
- communication has been established. It is redundant and wasteful
- of air time.
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- Stations answering any net rollcall shall do so by announcing
- their tactical call first and the Amateur Radio call second.
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- Net stations calling net control do so with tactical calls only.
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- Only the transmitting station need transmit an FCC callsign --
- its own.
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- EXAMPLE:
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- "Riverside, this is California." (This is Riverside County EOC
- being called by State OES Headquarters Sacramento.)
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- "CALIFORNIA, THIS IS RIVERSIDE."
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- "We are attempting to contact you on Forty. Do you have a radio
- for that?" (Note that there is no further or unnnecessary use of
- any callsigns until the very end.)
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- "YES. WHAT FREQUENCY DO YOU WANT US TO MEET YOU?"
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- "We are on Seven Two Three Zero, so look for us there."
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- "COPY."
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- "California out. [FCC callsign]." (Now, and only now, do both
- stations use any callsigns.)
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- "RIVERSIDE, [FCC callsign] OUT."
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- This amendment reflects the adoption of the tactical call
- "California" for all State OES Headquarters systems. OES Region
- tactical calls are their city alone or "State OES (city name)".
- Region VI, for example, is "Ontario" or "State OES Ontario".
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