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The National Traffic System (NTS) is a structure that allows for rapid movement of traffic from origin to destination and training amateur operators to handle written traffic and participate in directed nets.   The national traffic system works from the local to national and back to local levels. As an example, let's say that I want to send a message to my friend Cale with the FoTime Podcast. My message would start with my local area net. From there, an operator would in turn check in to the NTX Section net and pass the traffic. An operator in the NTX section net would then check in on the Fifth Region net and pass the message onto someone else. They would take the message and check into the Central Area net and pass the message again. At this point the message would be passed from the Central Area net to the Eastern Area net via the designated TCC, or Transcontinental Corps, operators. From there the Eastern Area operator to pass it down to the Fourth Region net, then someone else would pass it to the S