NTS is National Traffic System. The Alaska Section Traffic Manager (STM) is Ed Trump, AL7N. All formal traffic reports should be sent to ED on a routine basis.
The National Traffic System includes four different net levels that operate in an orderly time sequence to effect a definite flow pattern for traffic from origin to destination.
ARRL Precedences and Handling Instructions All messages handled by Amateur Radio should contain precedences—that
is, an evaluation of each message’s importance, made by the originating
station. A precedence is an “order of handling.”
There are four precedences in
the ARRL message form:
Emergency
Priority (P)
Welfare (W)
Routine (R)
in that order of handling. When and as they appear on a net or any other kind of circuit, messages will be handled in this order.
