Follow-up Reports
SulCom
Summer/Convective Weather Program
Effective
March 1, 2011
Occasionally Sullivan
Weather will request a SulCom field team 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 (said as “six seven”) Relay,
Follow-up"
Sullivan Weather: "67
Relay, Go ahead"
Relay Station: "Reference
4:35pm observation at 0.8 Northeast Oconomowoc,..(information
requested by Sullivan Weather)..."
Sullivan Weather: "Roger 67 Relay"
Relay Station: "WA9XXX"
Sullivan Weather: "WX9MKX"
Here is what the
above inquiry would look like if the location of the event was provided as
coordinates of 43.151N 88.495W:
Relay Station: "67 Relay, Follow-up"
Sullivan Weather: "67
Relay, Go ahead"
Relay Station: "Reference
4:35pm observation at four three point one five one, eight eight
point four nine five, (information requested by Sullivan Weather)..."
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 location of the event was
provided as coordinates of 43.151N 88.495W:
Spotter: "N9ONE, Follow-up"
NCS:
"Go ahead"
Spotter: "Reference
4:35pm observation at four three point one five one, eight eight
point four nine five, (information requested by Sullivan Weather)...,
N9ONE."
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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