Georgia Militia Signal Corp

Georgia Militia Signal Corp:_MGI

PURPOSES AND OVERVIEW:
Presently, it appears to many people that there exists an immediate necessity to set up a system of national communications which encompasses support for local and regional communications sub-systems. The objective is to be able to readily disseminate communications deemed to be of emergency nature.

OBSTACLES:

Although there are logistical and economic concerns, security is the main obstacle to overcome in establishing a national and regional communications system for use by the established local units.

DEFINITIONS:

For puposes of defining terms used herein, the following words, terms, or phrases shall have the following meanings:

Division - as used herein the term Division is synonomous with region.
Region - as used herein the term region means the pre-determined extent of the area of operations of any local unit or Division. Regions/Divisions are established by state Militias.
AO - means Area of Operations.
Equipment - means radio communications devices.
Comm Section - means radio stations (Amateur Radio Station - a.k.a. HAM Operators) established for relay of sit-reps between Militias.

PROPOSED SYSTEM: Integrated networks -

1. Local Units - If organized by Militia Divisions within a state, all participating Local Units would have the capability to initiate sit-reps to their respective Division Comm section, by means of the equipment available in those Local Units, otherwise, Local Units would communicate directly with established state Comm sections for in their respective AO.

2. Division Comm - If organized by Militia Divisions within a state, Division Comm sections would subsequently make sit-reps based on sit-rep information received from Local Units to established state-wide Comm stations by the means of the equipment in their respective Division Comm sections, otherwise the state comm sections would receive local sit-reps.
a. As Division Comm sections receive and relay sit-reps from Local Units to state Comm sections, Division Comm sections would of necessity be required to have a broad range of equipment . A system of standardization would narrow the range of equipment required by both Local Units and Division Comm sections, thus enhancing economic concerns by reducing the broad range of differnt types of equipment necessary to meet the needs of receiving Local Unit sit-reps while shifting the emphasis upon use of codes and/or encryption means.

3. State Comm - Within each state there should be a minimum of 3, maximum of 24, relay stations operating on a 24/7 basis, capable of receiving sit-reps from all Divisions within state geographical area and subsequently passing sit-rep to ERPN at regularly scheduled time of transmission, or, during emergency to a designated national Comm section.
a. State Comm relay stations operating on a 24/7 basis are necessary for purposes of handling emergency traffic from Division and Local Units, passing that traffic along to a national communications section for processing and re-distribution. (NOTE: A working example of how such a system could be applied can be observed by monitoring what is called "MidCARS" on 7.258 MHz. "MidCARS" is an mid-America regional Amateur Radio Service which passes traffic along to any stations checking into that net. Numerous stations act as Net Control operators and pass along and periodically transfer Net Control operations along to another station to assume Net Control operations, usually hourly. If a full compliment of 24 state control operators were established in each state, each operator would serve as Net Control for 1 hour.)
b. It should only be necessary for one state relay station to pass traffic to ERPN during regularly scheduled Net operations. The then current operating state Net Control station would pass sit-rep traffic to ERPN. Dependent upon the number state relay stations acting as Net Control a rotational schedule could be assigned to the participating state Net Control Comm. section.
c. State Comm stations would be required to have available at that station a broad range of communications equipment for passing traffic between Local Units, Division Comm. sections, and ERPN.

The foregoing would require several means of communications hardware and software, (i.e. voice, analog, digital) be available for receiving and sending traffic within the various Division and state levels. This would provide to local units the means to monitor traffic between Division, state, and national communications stations dependent upon individual local units equipment availability.

Participating Local Units can issue sit-reps other Local Units, Division and/or state Comm sections, dependent upon state Militia structure, using designated "public" sit-rep frequencies and/or alternate sit-rep frequencies which are monitored 24/7. Normal sit-reps or emergency sit-reps will be relayed according to established SOP's which control use of net operations, and which shall, in case of emergency situation, allocate sit-rep frequencies, tac-frequencies and callsign designation, and any other pertinent tactical information.

Originally posted by 1371 at AWRM.org