What exactly is the purpose of codes?
I notice that many of MFS sitreps back to Adelaide fire use the relevant K codes...and then say what the code means....so it isn't shortening the message.
If you don't use codes all the time, it is very easy to forget them... numerous people are awful on the radio now..imagine them starting to talk, stop, keep the finger on the PTT button, while they look up a code for what they want......! Plain English is much easier (although some even struggle with that!)
Police use codes - and they are used all the time..... although when a code that is rarely used comes up, patrols are having to go to the cheat sheet to work out what it is....
From a police perspective, codes are great, as you have a large number of people on the same radio talkgroup, with different task to do. You learn very quickly to listen for the codes that relate to your task.
On a CFS radio pretty much all of those on the radio are going to do the same thing!
I think codes have their place, but CFS is not that place!!
Pip