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ondary radio nets for the Organized Reserves and the Natianal Guard as he sees fit without regard to tactical regulations regarding the allocation of radio stations or radio nets.
(c) The Corps Area Headquarters will be connected in an Army Amateur Radio Net with an Army Headquarters Station located at The Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jerseys. The Corps Area Headquarters stations will be either privately owned and operated or government owned and operated so as to provide supervisory stations having direct contact with the amateurs within the Corps Areas and at the same time serving in the Army Amateur Radio Net. In either case the stations must be amateur stations working under amateur calls and complying with the Department of Commerce Regulations regarding amateur stations. The Licenses for such stations must be obtained from the Radio Inspector for the Radio District in which the Corps Area is located.
(d) To generate the desired amount of message traffic for the amateur operators to handle it will be desirable for National Guard and Reserve Officers to transmit routine correspondence and reports by amateur radio, sending a confirmation copy by mail The Corps Area Signal Officers and the Regular Army instructors under them should in turn transmit as much of their correspondence by amateur radio as possible and feasible, sending confirmation copies by mail. Traffic that would ordinarily go over the commercial land lines will not be sent over amateur radio but will. be sent as formerly over commercial land lines Amateur radio traffic should be considered as subject to a delay of from twenty-four to forty eight hours. After the amateurs of a Corps Area have been trained for some length of time, this delay time will be cut down appreciably. (e) In cases of local emergencies, where the land lines have ceased to function, any and all traffic should be sent by amateur radio. In such cases the local military units should be instructed to protect the radio station of the amateur serving them as this station may be their only means of communication with the outside world. The Corps Area Signal Officers will arrange for the distribution of such instruction literature as may be available to the cooperating amateurs within their Corps Areas. This literature should be of such a nature as to instruct the amateur in tactical procedure, army codes and ciphers, and army apparatus and methods.
(g) Detailed schedules of operation for the amateur stations should be worked out by the instructors on duty with the National Guard and Organized reserves. In general it will be desirable for the amateur serving a particular unit to be on duty on the night that unit drills. Corps Area Signal Officers will arrange .for periodic tests of the amateur nets under their jurisdiction. Some four to six tests per year should be run with messages starting at subordinate units and coming up through amateur radio channels to the Corps Area Headquarters. Similar tests of a nation-wide character will" be organized by the representative of the Chief Signal Officer at Fort Monmouth, N. J., and the representatives of the transmitting radio amateurs. (h) On Defense Day each year every cooperating amateur should be at his station for the transmission of such messages as are filled with him.
6. The Corps Area Signal 0fficers will furnish the representatives of the transmitting radio amateurs with a list of the National Guard and Reserve Units for which they wish amateur stations designated. Where an amateur radio station is already working with a military unit. this station should be suggested by the Corns Area Signal Officer as the moat likely station for the unit. This requires that the National Guard and Reserve units be consulted before submitting the original list to the representatives of the radio amateurs. The representatives of the transmitting radio amateurs must give due weight to such suggestions. A principal station and at least one alternate wi11 be designated for each unit where feasible. Where only one active amateur station is available it may be designated to serve several units within
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