[FADCA] Winlink 2000 (WL2K) and Classic Winlink

Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:32:37 -0500

OK, where's the Winlink software? You got me interested now.

David Calder
[email protected]
www.n4zkf.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "bud Thompson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rick KN6KB" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:38 AM
Subject: [FADCA] Winlink 2000 (WL2K) and Classic Winlink

> Deltona
> Saturday March 2  0720 EST
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] Fw: Internet/FBB/LINUX/FPAC
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> > According to the Winlink page, as given below, there are 2 Winlink
> stations in Florida:
> >
> > Rockledge, Florida  KN6KB  on 145.090 and 441.000 + HF
> > Panama City, Florida N4RNM no vhf or uhf only HF
> >
> > Not quite enough unless the last mile is is from 200 to 300 Miles except
> Near Rockledge.  Do anyone know of more?
> >
> > Russ
> >
>
> Hi - Further explanation -
>
> The two "winink" stations listed in FL are WL2K stations.  There
> is a difference between WL2K and Classic Winlink stations, the
> latter does not have a connection to the WL2K CMBO. There are
> also at least three active Classic Winlink stations in the state
> - WX4J (Jacksonville), N4SS (Pensacola), and N0IA Deltona.  AE4DO
> in Tallahassee has run a Classic Winlink in the past.
>
> For our Last Mile link to the outside wired world - It only takes
> one station, any one, any where.
>
> It doesn't have to be in FL - it can be elsewhere.
>
> Daily my Classic Winlink MBO station exchanges traffic with WL2Ks
> KN6KB (Rockledge/MLB) and N4RNM in the Keys, and Classic Winlinks
> WX4J and N4SS, as well as other stations in CT, TX, LA, WA, OR,
> IN, VA, NC, NV, CA, MN, OH, and TN.  Those are just the network
> stations I try to work - there are others I don't call. (Dale
> has supplied a link to the list of Classic Winlinks.)  Any one
> of those that is a WL2K is all we need to use to get outside the
> Last Mile.
>
> On HF I use 80, 40, 30, 20, 17 and 15 meters every day to make
> these contacts, and once in a while 10m.  HF is alive with digital.
>
>
> Any EOC or incident command could set up an AirMail station on
> vhf/hf to make these links  -anywhere an HF station might be utilized
> in a tactical operation could be used as an AirMail digital station
> to get traffic outside the Last Mile.  Ideally, "portable" or
> shelter vhf packet stations would be using Airmail and
> sending messages back to the EOC where they would be further processed.
>
>  This processing could be on to the layered packet network for
> those messages not needing to go to the internet, or on to a WL2K/Airmail
> station via HF. (We should have an AirMail or WL2K station at
> the State EOC - work on that.   At the very least we should have
> a PacTOR ARQ MBO there - then we would not be so pressed to work
> the layered network all the way to Tallahassee.)
>
> Night time HF communications within the state do not lend themselves
> to the highest throughput rates on digital modes due to propagation.
>  While links can be made and traffic flows, the rates might be
> better on 40 or 30 meters out a tad further than 200 - 300 miles.
>
> In a wide-spread Last Mile, there would be several HF stations
> (ostensibly Airmail) inside the Last Mile working several WL2K/Airmail
> stations on HF outside the Last mile - effectively increasing
> the useable bandwidth.
>
> Yes,  we will want more stations - but we establish those as part
> of our plan for tactical operations within the Last Mile.
>
> An example would be here in my area where there are five counties
> in this "ARES District".  If each county EOC had an AirMail station
> on  the layered network (three LANs), and one or more of those
> had HF capability (HF Gateway), the District could get outside
> the Last Mile here - whether a five square mile area in Orange
> County or all of Seminole County.  Even if the layered network
> were the wonderful web we visualize and the State EOC were on
> it, it would be more efficient to get traffic from this distance to
> the State EOC on HF.
>
> The purpose is to get information (e-mail messages) generated
> within the Last Mile out to a station where there is an internet
> link - or the wired station.  We only have to get the e-mail to
> a WL2K station - any WL2K station- or to an AirMail station outside
> the Last Mile that has the link to the CMBO through the internet.
>
> We should have an AirMail or WL2K station at the State EOC - work
> on that, it may take a politician!
>
> 73,
>
> bud N0IA
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