Winlink 2000 Slide 2 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 slide comes from the Winlink 2000 website. Note in particular the cost of the Pactor III modem which they recommend -- $1,000.00. Not shown is the requirement for a laptop computer. For those of you who are not familiar with it, Winlink 2000 “provides direct Radio users and Internet third-party users seamless, transparent email with attachments of reasonable size without any additional stress or learning curve” – and that is for the ultimate user, but not the individual ham, who will have to deal with substantial cost, and a steep learning curve. [Note: the Report of the National Emergency Response Planning Committee (NERPC) of the ARRL suggested in early 2007 “developing a continuing education course covering the installation, configuration, and use of Winlink 2000 for email.” – if it was easy, there would be no need for such a course!]

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