Posted on: Yesterday at 10:31:08 PMPosted by: CFS_Firey
Quote from: Pipster on Yesterday at 11:03:18 AM
Isn't
"Adelaide Fire Strath 34P"
"Send Strath 34P"
"Strath 34P mobile incident 81"
"Roger, Strath 34P, Adelaide Fire Out"
Just as easy?
Pip
I'm all in favour of keeping things simple, but
"Adelaide Fire, Strath 34P is K3"
is a lot quicker than saying
"Adelaide fire, Strath 34P is at incident but available to respond".
There are some cases where a K code is much faster and easier.
You can even forget the 'is' part .... and even the 'Adelaide Fire' part.
Have to agree. Using callsigns at the start of every transmission is NOT required. The whole point is once you establish who is calling, and who they are calling, until an OUT is given, that is the conversation that is happening.
In phone conversation we say"Hi Pip, this is Fred calling". Pip would say oh Hi Fred, Fred doesnt then keep saying Pip at the start of every sentence, nor does Pip (not that I have spoken on the phone with her...who knows??). Hence radio does not need this either!!
Duuno if my conversation would go quite like that - Fred is a lad of few words!!!
The difference between a radio conversation, and a phone conversation is that you only have two participants on the phone conversation. On a radio conversation, there may be multiple conversations occurring / trying to happen on the one talkgroup.
Having said that, the CFS FGP needs to be changed, to reflect the changes in our radio communication technology, so we can get rid of many of the pro words (like over, out etc) and try & teach people to use less of the radio time.
Pro words like over / out etc came about because if you were listening to an HF radio, it was often the only way you knew someone had finished their message, as it was often very difficult to hear on those type of radios!
Pip
