We sometimes hear prowords or elements of radio messages voiced as FLASH, IMMEDIATE, EMERGENCY, PRIORITY, WELFARE, or ROUTINE. What do they mean in amateur procedure, and how are they interpreted in government services (at least in the U.S. and allied nations)? How do these levels of message precedence help to make for a viable system of radio messaging? We'll look at examples to show how this work in both amateur and U.S. government services, as well as the Winlink Global Radio Email service. Here's the chapter list: 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Radio messages don't necessarily get processed as they come in 01:37 Planning message relay circuits by analyzing real National Weather Service alerts 07:33 Precedence gets the messages that need to go first on the air first 08:12 Amateur precedence: EMERGENCY, P, W, and R 15:46 Precedence in government services 16:10 Weather Alert Project 21 traffic analysis and precedence definition 18:47 Weather Alert Project 21 message examples - government precedence 24:30 Winlink support of precedence 26:19 Integrated ordering of precedence for BLACK SWAN Net 26:41 The system view of radio communication for disaster or emergency 28:23 Questions for viewers
