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- November 2008
- Ken - W7KKE
- Oregon Coast Repeater Group
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- Normal E-mail requires an internet connection
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- If a community “Last Mile” internet link is broken, or the agency e-mail
server is down, e-mail cannot flow.
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- Power out, Cell & Land-Line out ~ 36 hours
- Fiber washed out near Buell
- Commercial SATCOM phones outage same day (coincidence)
- OEM wanted written (i.e. digital) traffic
- No formal RACES activation in Lincoln County – ad hoc Winlink from home
(W7KKE) & mobile (N7HQR)
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- Between W7KKE & N7HQR, sent and received 122 emails!
- SITREPS to OEM and county Emergency Manager
- Health & welfare traffic for neighbors
- Keeping own family members informed
- Coordination between stations
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- Lincoln City VHF Packet RMS lost internet
- City’s microwave antenna moved off axis in wind
- Mt Hebo VHF Packet RMS not yet installed
- HF was only connectivity
- Worked fine during daylight
- Very hard to find a Winlink station during nighttime
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- Example of traffic sent to state OEM
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- Sample of commonly used Pactor stations (W7KKE)
- W7ODN (OEM – Salem) 80 m (fades
out at night)
- W7IJ Olympia 40 & 80 (fades
later than W7ODN)
- N7YRT Spokane area 30, 40,
& 80
- (one of the few reliable night-time stations)
- K6IXA Central CA 30 & 20
- K6CYC Los Angeles 80, 40, 30, & 20
- KA6IQA San Diego 40 & 20
- Other stations are available, but these are my “go-to” stations.
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- Used to keep spam out of Winlink system
- No one can send you a Winlink email via internet unless you have sent
them one
- Or they include “//WL2K” in subject line
- Each of your new addressees are added to the white list when you first
send an email
- White List can be modified via Winlink system setting
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- Pactor II & III invented and patented by SCS of Germany
- Used by both amateurs and commercial maritime stations
- Pactor II and III TNCs are expensive!
- USA dealer is Farallon Electronics
- http://www.farallon.us/webstore/
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- Pactor Speed Levels and sounds
- Pactor I Pactor
II Pactor III
- 200 200
200 bps
- 400
- 600 bps
- 800
- 1400 bps
- 2800 bps
- 3200 bps
3600 bps
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- KAM+ (out of production)
- Price ~$100? EBAY?? (rare to be posted)
- KAM 98 (out of production)
- KAM XL
- Timewave PK-232/PSK
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- http://www.winlink.org
- “Winlink For Dummies” tutorial under “How To” tab
- Under software tab:
- Instructions for downloading Paclink
- (Join Yahoo Groups email: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PaclinkMP)
- http://www.siriuscyber.net/ham
- Download Airmail
- Download IcePac propagation program
- Install IcePac first
- http://www.ocrg.org
- Oregon Coast Repeater Group
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