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One project I've been helping out on with my club DX1ARM is improving our traffic net capabilities. You may have noticed this with the revised workflow for checking in during the evening nets. Basically no-traffic checkins are immediately logged and cleared. Checkins with traffic are pulled out for their traffic.

The next phase of this is improving the way we process formal net traffic, particularly through radiogram. The idea is that traffic should be SPECIFIC, CONSISTENT, CONCISE, CLEAR, and ACCURATE. And that traffic nets should be able to route traffic from origin to destination. If the destination is not a ham, then it can be relayed through other means like email, sms, phone call, or even physical letter or personally. That is voluntary of course, and will be a service that will come from the amateur's own time and expense.

Net controllers have been using this form to log formal traffic. It basically adopts the radiogram format, but we can still tweak and fine tune as needed.

We are still figuring out how to route traffic to other areas when needed (there has been no use case yet).

dx1arm.net/radiogram

A log of traffic can also be found on the site.

(Note that the .net domain is an unofficial project site that I manage and is not the official club website)

I hope clubs will find such a system useful during times like these disasters. Our amatuer radio networks can be used to deliver and route welfare traffic for example. In areas with grid-down scenarios, our service can be used to deliver traffic from the community to their intended destination.

For instance traffic can be submitted to a local 2 meter net. And it can then be relayed to other regions using HF net. And then it can be delivered to its target local destination again via 2 meter net, or directly by a ham who is able to receive and log the traffic. Or vice versa.

Pwede rin tumalon sa ibang networks like civic or government channels. For instance some clubs like DX2AFP are interfacing with OCD and Kabalikat for emcomms support.

This might need coordinators per area who will be responsible for coordinating and routing traffic to their respective locales.

This can also be utilized for when communications support is needed in an incident command structure.

Of course there are challenges like data privacy. But when safety and lives takes precedence, we will need to work out some compromise.

Looking for your inputs on this. I know an ongoing disaster is the worst time to adopt something new, but this might be something we should consider as a community. If there is an existing structure for such a system, then I would be happy to learn about it.