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CENTRAL AREA NTS DIGITAL - STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
[SOP-01]
SCOPE: CENTRAL AREA METHODS & PROCEDURES
1.1 CENTRAL AREA ROUTING PLAN - In accordance with NTS
Digital System Guidance, Section II, and Section IIIB, paragraphs 1 and 2,
Central Area Digital (CAD) shall implement the "open system" approach for
forwarding and coordination of inter-area and intra-area digital traffic. It is
to be noted that the degree of flexibility with any routing plan shall always
depend on the existing routing plans of the other areas involved. Therefore, CAD
shall interface with EAD and PAD only to the extent allowed and/or dictated by
their individual routing plans.
1.1.1 Central Area INTER-AREA traffic is defined as the inbound and outbound
traffic that is RECEIVED FROM and/or SENT TO the Eastern and Pacific Areas.
Basically: (a) Inter-area traffic TO the Eastern and Pacific areas may be sent
by any CAD MBO or DRS station, but shall be routed only to designated EAD and
PAD Regional MBO or HUB station(s) in accordance with the "Routing Plan"
existing for the specific area. (b) EAD and PAD stations with Inter-area traffic
for CAD may route directly to any applicable or available CAD Regional MBO
station at their discretion, and depending on band conditions. (c) Coordination
between SysOp's of applicable MBO/DRS stations shall be mandated and necessary
to establish traffic flow and disposition.
1.1.2 Central Area INTRA-AREA digital traffic shall be defined as the traffic
within the boundaries of CAD and subject to internal routing and disposition.
(a) The preferred and desirable routing and disposition of CAD intra-area
traffic shall be consistent to normal NTS traffic routing to the extent
possible. (b) To implement, it shall be necessary for all CAD individual DRS
stations coordinate with SysOp's of any or all applicable CAD Regional MBO/DRS
stations to establish flow and disposition of applicable Section, Region, or
Area traffic. (c) CAD SysOps are also requested to become familiar and
knowledgeable, and apply all of the noted traffic handling issues of Section IV
of referenced NTS Digital System Guidance.
1.2 MISCELLANEOUS - Related and recommended CAD SysOp do's and don'ts.
1.2.1 CAD SysOps are requested not to use the generic "NTS" command when
connecting to Winlink MBO systems. The NTS command will do a listing of all
pending non-forwarded NTS traffic on the board. The listing could result in a
long listing of traffic destined for locations other than location being polled
or interested in, or not authorized to remove. This could impose a problem or
impact operation of the MBO, if it should have a long list of traffic, and if
band conditions are marginal, and/or if other stations are waiting , etc. Using
the NTS command shall not constitute an adverse useage of the MBO, but to avoid,
would be in good judgement! The recommended alternative is to use the List
command ...L@ NTSxx..., which will only list the traffic, destined for the
specific Section(s) being polled. Keyboarder SysOps may also use the "FF" and
"FS" commands when connecting to Winlink systems for retrieving traffic, but
must be coordinated with the system SysOp. Any DRS station using AirMail or
Winlink software to receive or transmit traffic by ARQ call/connect in the
Auto-forward mode must also coordinate with applicable system SysOps.
1.2.2 CAD Winlink system SysOps are requested not to set daily board useage time
limits for NTSD participating stations that are in compliance with issued CAD
SOPs, and/or NTSD guidelines. When large volumes of traffic are being handled,
and/or if adverse conditions are being experienced, limited daily time
thresholds should not be a SysOp concern and/or restriction.
1.2.3 CAD SysOps are requested to lockout or reject any station that abuses
and/or adversely affects the operation of their systems, and that do not comply
with issued CAD SOPs and/or NTSD guidelines. Please follow up and coordinate
with offenders to hopefully rectify the situation.
1.3 REPORTS: To expound on paragraph "G" of Section IV, all active and
participating CAD stations are required to submit monthly traffic reports to the
CADC. The traffic report is to account only for the messages that are RCVD
and/or SENT via your digital system, i.e., total messages RCVD, total messages
SENT, and then the TOTAL. All HF and/or VHF port configurations are to be
accounted for. Monthly traffic reports are mandated regardless of how small or
large the traffic activity, or even if there is no traffic to report. Cut off
date for traffic reports shall be the 10th of the month. Early reports shall be
appreciated.
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R1: 05/04/2003, W4ZJY, CADC - Routing plan and generic changes.
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