[FADCA] Transmittal speed

Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:45:09 -0500

Bob,

Winlink can be used for any ham to any ham or email fixed or mobile. Radio
users must of course have Ham licenses which is verified either
automatically or manually.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Stacey & Bob H.
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 1854 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Transmittal speed

Thanks Rick, another question off topic. Is Winlink only to be used for
Mobile to Mobile and Mobile to Fix comunications or can fix to fix use the
system?

Bob N4WFH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Muething" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 12:01
Subject: RE: [FADCA] Transmittal speed

> Bob,
>
> Remember that AirMail & WL2K will send all the files in compressed binary
> mode.  If you look at the proposal you will see the size for each message
in
> uncompressed followed by compressed size.  Normally files like word .doc
> compress highly. Standard text compresses about 2:1
>
> Rick KN6KB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Stacey & Bob H.
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 0950 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FADCA] Transmittal speed
>
>
> Bud Wrote:
>
> Yesterday I sent a ham-to-e-mail message with two attachments. One was an
MS
> Word file (a 30K binary file), the other a small DOS.txt file. The actual
> text in the e-mail message was only a reference to the testing. The total
> e-mail message was just over 32Kbytes. From my home Airmail set up in
> Deltona on 20M I linked with WB5KSD, a frequency/band scanning WL2K
station
> near Dallas, TX. I got lucky and made the link in about 15 seconds - it
> would have taken 45 seconds had I missed his scanning the frequency the
> first time. Once linked the entire 32K message was sent and we were
> disconnected in about 80 seconds. I then walked across the shack about 10
> ft to my XYL's computer and the e-mail message was in her in folder.
>
> Bob: Bud at what baud rate did you pass a 32k file in 80sec? At 1200 baud
it
> would approximately 9 minutes.
>
> Bob N4WFH
>
>
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