In times of a natural disaster or emergency, when normal means of communication are down, amateur radio may be the only means to communicate information into or out of the affected area.

If there was no set format as to how the communications are handled, we could have chaos such as messages never reaching their destination, duplicate messages to the same destination point, incorrect and possibly dangerous information being communicated, or even not finding an operator to handle the message in the destination area.



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