Emergency Traffic: Radio email for HF & VHF Slide 1 of 16

Go to slide: 1: Emergency Traffic: Radio email for HF & VHF 2: Winlink 2000 3: Winlink 2000 Costs 4: Cost Effective Alternative 5: Audible Tone Email Text 6: Redundancy 7: HT + Digipan 2.0 8: Mobile HF rig + NVIS + Digipan 2.0 9: No TNC or cables; Cut & Paste 10: Flash Drive or CD 11: Successful Tests 12: URL for Digipan 2.0 13: Message Format 14: Sample Message 15: Audible Tone Radio Photos 16: Questions

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This presentation grew out of the radio email / text messaging experiments by three members of the Faulkner County Amateur Radio Club: Wayne Johnston (KD4TA); George Carroll (W5GHC); and, Perry Carleton (AE5EE). The subtitle is the most important part of this slide – this is a method of sending and receiving text files and emails as emergency traffic messages with no TNC, no modem, and no cable interface. This means no issues of cost, of configuration, of compatibility between rigs and TNC or cables, no tweaking of settings, and no issues of power or voltages for a TNC or modem. After all, how many of us have TNCs or modems that we quickly can deploy with to an emergency field location? If we have them in our Go-Kit, then how many of those TNCs require compatible cables, some training, some registration or some other adjustments or tweaking before they can be used successfully by almost any other ham?

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