So, a few weeks ago WINMOR was just a concept to most of use. Now many have tested the simple soundcard alternative to $1000 modems and the verdict appears to be... it works ! It works as an email/file sharing digital mode but not perhaps as a strong competitor to Pactor III in terms of performance. I think the authors and development team will probably point out that they never intended to have the mode equal or better PIII , rather simply provide an alternative that was effective on HF. While there are a few problems still being worked on, my views is that even if they never made any more improvements...their goal has been achieved.
While some WINMORons (I think that is what we should call ourselves) have achieved transfers in the 1000 to 2000 bytes per minutes range, I have been mainly in the 200-400 range. It still works though. The next stage will perhaps be the most interesting, switching from experimental peer-to-peer email exchanges and incorporating WINMOR fully in to the Winlink suite of applications . From a emcomm point of view, the ability for a RACES station to simply be able to send traffic via packet and Telnet, PLUS have a HF server accessible without needing a $1000 modem , will be very helpful. How the bands will be with ping-ponging mail exchanges is another matter, I suspect some will not be happy. The busy detect in WINMOR does work though, that should help. Andy K3UK
