[aprssig] APRS => Winlink Messaging

[Bob Bruninga]

> Go to www.winlink.org.  Check the tabs 
> on the top of the screen for [Ho to...]
> APRSLink.  It will give you the 
> instructions in sending a message via 
> APRS to winlink.  

Thanks.  I figured it  had to exist.  So to send the short one line message to the WinLINK user W3ABC, then I would use this format from my APRS mobile radio:

TO: WLNK-1
MSG: SP W3ABC at winlink.org message_text_etc /BK

Or, since W3ABC has a Winlink account, then hopefully, I do not have to punch in the redundant full email address and send only:

TO: WLNK-1
MSG: SP W3ABC message_text_etc /BK

And these messages can be sent without any apriori logon or previous message (other than having a valid APRS position report already on the air)?

If the shorter method works, then I think the wording on the weeb page can be more clear to help the first time user see how easy it is.  The example shown is for amulti-line message, not the shortest possible approach, which often might be the most used...

thanks
Bob, Wb4APR


>-----Original Message-----
>From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
>Of Bob Bruninga 
>Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:37 AM
>To: aprssig at tapr.org
>Subject: [aprssig] APRS => Winlink Messaging
>
>We need an author:
>
>I was told that we cannot use APRS to send email to Winlink accounts from
>the APRS mobiles because winkink needs a special SUBJECT line.  Therefore,
>if I understand the problem correctly we cannot do this presently.  Here is
>what we need:
>
>*** An engine (like the EMAIL engine) that monitors the APRS-IS for a
>trigger ADDRESS, lets say "WLK".  If anyone uses their radio to send an APRS
>message TO WLK then this happens:
>
>1) The first word of the message is the CALLSIGN of the winlink addressee
>(example:  WB4APR, we are here and ready at 1430. ).
>
>2) The WLK engine takes this APRS message and creates an EMAIL of the form:
>
>TO:    WB4APR at winlink.org
>FROM:  (your radio callsign)
>SUBJ:  //WLNK (or whatever the special format is)
>MESSAGE: we are here and ready at 1430.
>
>*** Message originated from station (your call)
>*** on the APRS system.  Location is now
>*** at this link (**** LINK to APRS-IS map display)
>*** To reply, reply to this message, though APRS
>*** is a live message system only, and will not
>*** be delivered unless station is currently active.
>
>They way it was explained to me, is that the above EMAIL is not accepted by
>WINLINK system unless there is the special SUBJECT line (something like
>above) to help guard against spam.  So that is why we cannot currently send
>APRS messages to Winlink addresses because we do not have a subject line.
>
>Notice that I did suggest that this "WLK" engine will accept REPLY messages
>and will inject them back into the APRS-IS!  This should be safe, since we
>have to assume that a callsign originator on WINLINK is a licensed ham and
>his communication is legitimate.
>
>Again, I am not a WinLINK expert and I only heard about this issue second
>hand, so I could be mistaken, and maybe there is already a workaround for
>this issue..  If so, ignore me.
>
>If not, then, this is the kind of gizmo we need to add to the APRS quiver so
>that we can be one step closer to the UNIVERSAL HAM RADIO TEXT MESSAGING
>initiative where  we can message ANY HAM, ANYWHERE, using ANY DEVICE, by
>callsign alone.  See Sept Issue of QST.
>
>Bob, Wb4APR
>
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