[aprssig] winlink

[Robert Bruninga]

>>> spider at rivcom.net 1/1/05 2:13:31 PM >>>
Regarding using D700/D7's to send email via WinLINK:

>Bob, let me ask you this.
>
>You are working an event or an emergency, etc.  
>You are known to have WinLink Capability.
>The event coordinator has your winlink email address 
>and sends you a file that needs to go to the sign-in desk.
>This file is 35k.  How are you going to handle that with 
>the D7/700?

Maybe I am confused.  I thought WinLINK was for anyone
to use any time to send and receive Email.  But I am also
hearing some people say it is ONLY for emergency use
and only for those people invloved in EOC's and established
emergency nets.

My comments relate to the use of packet Email by anyone
at any time who may occassionally need to logon to a WInLINK
node and send more than the half-line Email capability used in APRS.

My comments do not apply to fixed stations designed 
for the explicit and dedicated purpose of established
Emergency nets who should gear up for maximum throughput.

Now, if both of these applications are allowed on WinLINK,
then I strongly believe that in order to have people able
to use WinLINK during emergency conditions, you also
then have to expect them to use it occassionally for familliarity
and in that case to use what they have.  

With what, say 10,000 mobile packet people with
the Kenwood D7 and D700, it seems ludicrous to 
pruposefully try to exclude them from the WinLINK
Email system by publishing statements like the
D7 and D700 "dont work with WinLINK" when such
statements are very missleading.  They work fine to
send and receive reasonable Emails of a few K each.

Bob

My original message:
> We must get people (especailly Amatuer radio users)
> away from the idea that they have to have specialized one-of
> a kind softare to communicate digitally!  And beacuse of such
> missunderstanngs to ignore and abandon the 85% of mobile
> packet users who could potnetially use this system..
>
> thanks.  I hope someone
> who uderstands plain ASCII can correct his missinterpretation
> that you refer to over on the W2LK discussion group.
>
> In otherwords, there are  many inccorect interpretations of the
> "wont work with Winlink" coment.  Yes, they wont work
> with specialized softrware at the user end not designed to
> use them.  But they WILL WORK just fine for the end
> user who uses simple terminal mode (without any special
> software) to send and recive WinLINK traffic and Email via
> any WINLINK system.
>
> Bob, WB4APR