Subj : Re: Wannabe HAM
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Wed Sep 21 2016 08:54 am

-=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to HOLGER GRANHOLM <=-

 JA> I, as a HAM, could theoretically get a message out, but it would be
 JA> verbal and passed through others. With Winlink linked via radio,
 JA> an email could leave my laptop, go through the HAM, through the radio
 JA> network to a place that DOES have Internet service, then be delivered
 JA> to their family in Chicago.

 JA> Again, in theory. :-)

Winlink has features that a lot of hams don't seem to know about.

1.  Peer-peer mode - this allows the passing of messages directly between
stations with no Internet use at all.  Most useful for a wide area EMCOMM net
or point to point link between two stations handling traffic for a large scale
emergency.

2.  RF forwarding.  There is a newer mode in RMS Express where if the RMS
mailbox (the place you normally exchange Winlink mail with) loses Internet
connectivity, you can instruct it to forward email via RF to a more distant RMS
which does have Internet.


.... We put the "k" in "kwality."
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