Operational Communications Plan

This is the Strategic Coordination domain — see the Domain Summary for how it relates to Activation, Long-Haul Message Traffic, Local/Tactical, and Cross-State Coordination.

Once activated, communications must support:

• Voice coordination
• Situation reporting
• Task assignments
• Message passing
• Information distribution

Members may join operations at any time, therefore communications systems must support persistent messaging.

Operational PACE

Level	System	Use
PRIMARY	Internet Collaboration Platform	Incident coordination
ALTERNATE	Amateur Radio Voice Nets	Operational communications
CONTINGENCY	Amateur Radio Digital Messaging	Structured message passing
EMERGENCY	Voice Relay Network	Station-to-station relay — see Voice Procedure’s Relay section

Internet Collaboration

Primary operational coordination occurs through an online collaboration platform.

Recommended channels:

#incident-status #operations #field-teams #logistics #sitrep

Purpose:

incident-status
Official updates from command

operations
Operational coordination

field-teams
Field unit coordination

logistics
Equipment and resource requests

sitrep
Situation reports — see Message Handling’s SITREP cycle

Station Modes

Allocate stations to specific tasks

• Winlink P2P station
  • Dedicated Winlink Email coordinator.
• JS8Call Station
  • Dedicated JS8Call Messaging Station
• APRS Beacon Station
  • APRS messaging station
  • Tactical APRS Callsign?
• Voice Net Controller VHF/UHF
  • Runs net discipline and logs every check-in in real time — see Message Handling’s Net Control Logging section
• Voice Net Controller HF
  • Same logging responsibility as VHF/UHF Net Control
• Voice Relay Station VHF/UHF
  • Relays using RELAY TO / THROUGH ME, and reports delivery back — see Voice Procedure
  • Multiple Stations monitor Local Repeater(s)
• Voice Relay Sation HF
  • Multiple Stations monitoring HF Net stations