Follow-up Reports
SulCom Summer Weather Program
Occasionally Sullivan Weather will
request a local net to provide supplemental information for a received
report. When this happens the relay
station will use the word "Follow-up" rather than the condition used
for a standard report when providing the reply to the request.
The use of "Follow-up"
alerts Sullivan Weather that the information about to be received is referenced
from an already-observed event rather than a new/separate event. Initiation of communications for the
follow-up report and for the standard report is the same. However, information in the follow-up report
will not necessarily have the same content or format as what would be heard in
a standard report.
Relay Station
to Sullivan Weather
Here is an example of communications
on the backbone (between the Relay Station and Sullivan Weather) for replying
to a request for a follow-up report:
Relay Station: "67
Relay, Follow-up"
Sullivan Weather: "67
Relay, Go ahead"
Relay Station: "Reference
Sullivan Weather: "Roger 67 Relay"
Relay Station: "WA9XXX"
Sullivan Weather: "WX9MKX"
Here is what the above report would
look like if the optional lat/long coordinates of 43.15125N 88.49466W are
available:
Relay Station: "67
Relay, Follow-up"
Sullivan Weather: "67
Relay, Go ahead"
Relay Station: "Reference
Sullivan Weather: "Roger 67 Relay"
Relay Station: "WA9XXX"
Sullivan Weather: "WX9MKX"
Field
Spotter to Local Net/Team Environment
Field spotters can use a similar
format for providing followup information to the
local net/local team. However, it is up
to the local team management to determine their processes. Here is what the above would look like
Spotter: "N9ONE,
Follow-up"
NCS:
"Go ahead"
Spotter: "Reference
NCS: " WA9YYY"
Here is what the above report would look like if the optional lat/long
coordinates of 43.15125N 88.49466W are available:
Spotter: "N9ONE,
Follow-up"
NCS:
"Go ahead"
Spotter: "Reference
NCS: " WA9YYY"
!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!
Sullivan Weather will determine the necessity and precedence of follow-up
information as they deem necessary.
Follow-up reports are not to be submitted unless specifically requested
by Sullivan Weather.
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