Group,
There were a good number of us using Winlink for the SET,
but things keep changing and we need to practice to keep our
radios doing the right thing as we can forget over time of
non-use.
So I am asking for those who would like to do a Winlink
exercise once a week to respond to this email. I will take a
week to collect your red hot responses and then make a group
of Winlink practitioners to which all subsequent emails will
be sent.
What would you be getting into?
Each week I will send you some instructions via your
regular internet email describing what you should try in a
Winlink session. You will have a few days to do the homework
and send your Winlink message. You can use any mode and any
RMS node in general with some exceptions. We will experiment
with forms, and pictures and some Peer-to-Peer opportunities,
and some Tactical call signs with all that. We will specify
some non-local RMS nodes to see how well we can get out of the
county (HF) should we need that in some emergency response.
(but we don't want to swamp any node with all our messages :)
So I would send out a play on Sunday night and you would
have until Thursday 11:59 PM to send your Winlink message to
me. That will give me Friday and Saturday to see how we are
doing and what comes next (or REPEAT).
The developers of Winlink are continually improving the
system so we need to open Winlink Express and take the updates
that pop up regularly. For instance the Check--in form has
just gotten a significant change. You will need to know your
GPS coordinates and now they have added What 3 Words (W3W). If
you don't know what that is, your first assignment is to find
out what your W3W are.
It will be fun and educational all at once. If you have
never used Winlink before but are willing to try sending email
by radio, join us and ask questions and get help setting
things up. At the beginning if you don't have a radio
connected to your computer, you can use the Telnet session
which only requires you to have internet to play.
Please send your requests to join, or questions before you
commit to me off-list (
billmcfarland10@...).
