Monday 7 March 2011

New Call signs

We hear that there will be changes to our call signs soon.

Currently we use the call signs "Swanage".....then Alpha, Bravo, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Kilo,Lima, Mike, Oscar, Papa, or Tango depending who we are.

The Alpha or Bravo call signs normally relate to the Station Officer or Deputy however if they are absent, the Operations room needs to know who is in charge of an incident.

So someone came up with the idea to add "Oscar" to the call sign to indicate Officer in Charge.

For example - "Swanage Alpha Oscar" or "Swanage Golf Oscar"

Now slight problem for Swanage Oscar as he becomes "Swanage Oscar Oscar" if he's in charge, sounding like he has to repeat everything!

But our John has the biggest issue......"Swanage Foxtrot .......Yep you radio experts will understand this one!"

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