[ARRL-OK] More on MRC net

[Jim Wilhite]

This assumes you have the destination email address.  How many displaced 
people in a disaster would have that information?

73  Jim
W5JO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark D. Conklin N7XYO" <n7xyo at arrl.net>
To: "ARRL Oklahoma Section List" <arrl-ok at mailman.qth.net>
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: [ARRL-OK] More on MRC net
>

>
> A system like WinLink 2000 is digital and it looks and feels like e-mail.
> Your team could send e-mail back to any where (i.e. message gets sent to
> Winlink 2000 ham set up at state EOC, who in-turn forwards the e-mail to a
> home e-mail... and the reverse could happen. Family sends e-mail for folks
> in the field via the EOC.)
>
> You leave the system up and on and check it every once in a while.
>
> WinLink 2000 would help many in OK and around the country. For community
> and goverment groups that would benefit inding a way to fund it would help
> get it on the air here, and in more local locations in the US.
>
> I don't disagree with many of your point... and agree there is a need.
> But some of what you want already is out there.
>
> We'll have to see if we can get some interested folks together all at one
> time.
>
> Mark Conklin, N7XYO