Re: [digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Mark Thompson wrote: *Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies* Of course, the problem with Winlink is that since Winlink stations do not, as a matter of policy, listen before transmitting, there is a grave risk that a Winlink station will interfere with other emergency traffic. Other forms of

Re: [digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread Sholto Fisher
this on HF - Original Message - From: Roger J. Buffington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:45 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies Mark Thompson wrote: *Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

Re: [digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
Some will never ending complain about anything and everything. Bottom line - it worked and very well.

Re: [digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread Roger J. Buffington
John Becker, WØJAB wrote: Some will never ending complain about anything and everything. Bottom line - it worked and very well. Actually, I doubt that Winlink did much of anything. The original post read a lot more like a PR effort by people with an agenda than anything of substance.

Re: [digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Sholto Fisher wrote: It can also clog up our bands. For instance I am monitoring a Pactor 2 transmission on 30m that has been on going for around 25 minutes so far and the latest email to go through is titled: FW: Please read til the end-Why boys need parents...269250 Do we really

[digitalradio] Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-13 Thread Mark Thompson
Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies With the storms in the Pacific Northwest dying down, throughout it all, Amateur Radio operators were there to help. After a visit on December 4 to the Oregon town of Vernonia, Governor Ted Kulongoski said, I'm going to tell you who the heroes were from