Follow-up Reports

SulCom Winter Weather Program

Effective May 4, 2024

Occasionally Sullivan Weather will request a SulCom field team to provide supplemental information for a received report. When this happens the relay station will use the word "Follow-up" rather than the What used for a standard report when providing the reply to the request.

The use of "Follow-up" alerts Sullivan Weather that the information about to be received is referenced from an already-observed event rather than a new/separate event. Initiation of communications for the follow-up report and for the standard report is the same. However, information in the follow-up report will not necessarily have the same content or format as what would be heard in a standard report.

Relay Station to Sullivan Weather

Here is an example of communications on the backbone (between the Relay Station and Sullivan Weather) for replying to a request for a follow-up report:

Relay Station: "67 (said as six seven ) Relay, Follow-up"
Sullivan Weather: "67 Relay, Go ahead"
Relay Station: "Reference Whiteout Conditions, 4:35pm, 0.8 Northeast Oconomowoc,..(information requested by Sullivan Weather)..."
Sullivan Weather: "Roger 67 Relay" (assuming receipt is complete)
Relay Station: "(RS Callsign)"
Sullivan Weather: "WX9MKX"

Here is what the above inquiry would look like if the where for the event was provided as coordinates of 43.151N 88.495W:

Relay Station: "67 Relay, Follow-up"
Sullivan Weather: "67 Relay, Go ahead"
Relay Station: "Reference Whiteout Conditions, 4:35pm, four three point one five one, eight eight point four nine five, (information requested by Sullivan Weather)..."
Sullivan Weather: "Roger 67 Relay" (assuming receipt is complete)
Relay Station: "(RS Callsign)"
Sullivan Weather: "WX9MKX"

Field Spotter to Local Net/Team Environment

Field spotters can use a similar format for providing followup information to the local net/local team. However, it is up to the field team management to determine their processes. Here is what the above would look like

Spotter: "N9ONE, Follow-up"
NCS: "Go ahead"
Spotter: "Reference Whiteout Conditions, 4:35pm, 0.8 Northeast Oconomowoc,..(information requested by Sullivan Weather)..."

NCS: "(NCS Callsign) (assuming receipt is complete)
Spotter: "N9ONE"

Here is what the above report would look like if the location of the event was provided as coordinates of 43.151N 88.495W:

Spotter: "N9ONE, Follow-up"
NCS: "Go ahead"
Spotter: "Reference Whiteout Conditions, 4:35pm, four three point one five one, eight eight point four nine five, (information requested by Sullivan Weather)...
NCS: "(NCS Callsign) (assuming receipt is complete)
Spotter: "N9ONE"

!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!
Sullivan Weather will determine the necessity and precedence of follow-up information as they deem necessary. Follow-up reports are not to be submitted unless specifically requested by Sullivan Weather.

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