Using Evernote to help out with the National Traffic System

Yesterday I passed my second piece of traffic for the national traffic system. Here's something I came up with to help out: an Evernote template manage all that.It started with the PDF template that was linked to from the Tri-County Traffic Net. This works well if you intend on printing everything out. The problem with the way the PDF is set up is that you can't save the filled out form. How dumb is that?When I'm receiving a message I want to make sure things are in the order they are read off on the air. Beyond that I don't want to play around with tabbing for every frickin' word. It alost defeats the purpose.Top top it off when I'm calling up the recipient I don't want to have a printout.Combine that all with the fact that I should keep the messages for a year...Suddenly Evernote is the perfect system to keep track of all this. All I have to do is make a copy of the template (linked below) and fill out the table. It's arranged in order things are read off in so it makes my life easy.Sure, it's not the official form. But that's OK. I can make one off this if I need to.

Yes, I know if there was an actual emergency that the internet would likely be down. I'm not as worried about that for now. This is a good crutch for me to get better at the passing traffic part.I have a few printouts of the forms too as backup in case general infrastructure (line the internet) goes down.Evernote Radiogram Template

Previous
Previous

Experience collecting

Next
Next

W8DFL QSL Cards - 3/7/2011