Alabama Traffic Rep Guide

The Alabama Net Operations Guide defines the duties of the Traffic Rep in Section D as follows;

D-2. Traffic Rep Duties and Responsibilities:

a. Pick up and deliver Alabama area traffic from/to the WL2K system.

b. Take Out of Region and priority and above Out of State precedence traffic from state nets to the WL2K system as soon as possible.

c. Check-in on state nets which meet during the period of duty.

d. The period of duty of the Traffic Rep shall be from the beginning of the 4A1B net on the day of duty until the end of the 4A1B net following the day of duty. NCS will direct outgoing traffic from the 4A1B net to the oncoming Traffic Rep.

Some General Notes:

1. Traffic reps must be familiar and comply with NTP 8, CHAPTER 8; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS PROCEDURES, including;

· The Traffic Rep is responsible for correct MESSAGE and WL2K addressing.

· If the originator does hot have correct addressing, it is the Traffic Rep’s duty to fix.

· Traffic Reps must insure that the MARS message is entirely upper case and lines must not exceed 69 characters.

· To preserve message accuracy, only the capital letters A through Z, the numerals 0 through 9, question mark, colon, dash, slant, paren, unparen, comma, apostrophe and period may be used in messages entered into the MDS. If other punctuation marks are needed, they may be sent in abbreviated form. The tab key should never be used in MARS messages. Create column separation with the space bar rather than the tab key.

2. The subject line of the WL2K ‘email’ must always begin with [ //MARS p/ ] where ‘p ‘ is the precedence of the MARS message.

3. The complete MARS-formatted message is placed in the body/text portion of the WL2K ‘email’.

4. For Airmail, separate instances should be established. One instance for your personal MARS Callsign and one for the Alabama State Address (NNN4AA).

5. All outgoing traffic must be sent using your personal MARS address. Incoming traffic is picked up using the Alabama State address.

6. The NNN4AA address must never be used except while you have the Traffic Rep duty.

Getting Started:

There are two methods of accessing the WL2K system; PACTOR (AIRMAIL) and WINMOR (RMS EXPRESS). Choose the method best suited to your station. Information on setting up for each method can be found at http://www.navymars.org/central/reg4/al/MARS_wl2k.htm.

The Winlink Website is a primary source of WL2K information, documents and software. Just go http://www.winlink.org/, click Site Login and then Create new account using your MARS callsign.

WL2K TRAFFIC ROUTING

The following matrix shows the routing addresses for NAVMARCORMARS as specified in CMB 04-08.

ALNAVMARCORMARS (ALL STATES IN ALL AREAS BELOW) - NNN0AL

  NORTHEAST AREA (ALL STATES IN REGIONS 1, 2 AND 3) - NNN1N

    REGION 1 (ALL STATES IN REGION 1) - NNN1R

      NNE - NNN1AV

      SNE - NNN1AX

      ICELAND - NNN1CY

    REGION 2 (ALL STATES IN REGION 2) - NNN2R

      NJ - NNN2BG

      NNY - NNN2BJ

      SNY - NNN2BK

    REGION 3 (ALL STATES IN REGION 3) - NNN3R

      MDE - NNN3AW

      VA - NNN3CB

      WV - NNN3CD

      PA - NNN3CP

  CENTRAL AREA (ALL STATES IN REGIONS 4 AND 5) - NNN5C

    REGION 4 (ALL STATES IN REGION 4) - NNN4R

      AL - NNN4AA

      FL - NNN4AL

      GA - NNN4AM

      KY - NNN4AT

      MS - NNN4BA

      NC - NNN4BL

      SC - NNN4BS

      TN - NNN4BU

      CU - NNN4CG

      PR - NNN4CR

    REGION 5 (ALL STATES IN REGION 5) - NNN5R

      IL - NNN5AP

      IN - NNN5AQ

      MI - NNN5AY

      MN - NNN5AZ

      OH - NNN5BN

      WI - NNN5CE

  SOUTH AREA (ALL STATES IN REGIONS 6 AND 7) - NNN6S

    REGION 6 (ALL STATES IN REGION 6) -NNN6R

      AR - NNN6AD

      LA - NNN6AU

      NMW - NNN6BI

      OK - NNN6BO

      ETX - NNN6BW

      STX - NNN6BY

      CZ - NNN6CZ

    NNN7R - REGION 7 (ALL STATES IN REGION 7) - NNN7R

      IA - NNN7AR

      MO - NNN7BB

      NEK - NNN7BD

  PACIFIC AREA (ALL STATES IN REGIONS 8, 9 AND 10) - NNN9P

    REGION 8 (ALL STATES IN REGION 8) - NNN8R

      CWY - NNN8AG

      MT - NNN8BC

      SND - NNN8BT

      UT - NNN8BZ

    REGION 9 (ALL STATES IN REGION 9) - NNN9R

      AZ - NNN9AC

      NCA - NNN9AE

      SCA - NNN9AF

      HI - NNN9AN

      NV - NNN9BE

      JA - NNN9CJ

      GU - NNN9CM

      OA - NNN9CO

    REGION 10 (ALL STATES IN REGION 10) - NNN0R

      AK - NNN0AB

      ID - NNN0AO

      OR - NNN0BP

      WA - NNN0CC

SPECIAL ADDRESSES

     Chief MARS - NNN0ASA

     Chief MARS ECOM Assistant - NNN0ASZ

     Director Central Area - NNN0ASG

     Deputy Director Central Area (NNN0ASG ONE) - NNN0LBZ

     Central Area ECOM Assnt (NNN0ASG TWO) - SC state mailbox NNN4BS

     Director Region Four - NNN0AS4

If the staff address is not otherwise specified by the staff member it should be sent to the appropriate state mailbox.

This page is maintained by NNN0TJC
Note: Signed authorization letters for all email addresses and other personal data
on this web-site are on file at the station of NNN0TJC.

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Alabama Traffic Rep Guide

WL2K TRAFFIC ROUTING