Redundancy Slide 6 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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Why not just go with Winlink 2000 and not bother with any other method? Because you are dreaming if you really think that in the next Hurricane Katrina or New Madrid earthquake that there will be enough of those expensive systems in place to be useful within the “last mile” of the damage area. This alternative (a radio and a computer with a soundcard) is realistic, cost effective, simple, and has a far greater potential than Winlink 2000 will ever have. That same ARRL committee that recommended a continuing education course for Winlink 2000 also made this comment about emergency preparedness and redundancy.

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