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WINLINK2000 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
You are in the middle of a South American jungle or perhaps in the
Mojave desert and
would like to send an email message to someone on a sailing vessel
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. How do you do it?
WINLINK2000 is the answer.
While the WINLINK2000 may not be considered "new" to some radio
operators, the use of digital technolgy is increasingly becoming
a widely accepted and efficient means of communicating. What is
new about WINLINK2000 is the fact that more and more emergency
organizations are using the system for true emergency-situation
communications. And here's why:
- Digital messages have a much higher degree of success in completing
a full message transmission and receipt.
- Lower power can be used than with other forms of communicating,
while still accomplishing
world-wide data transfer..
- Less error is introduced since written messages can be routed and
rerouted,
and rerouted again without introducing error. Error correction
protocols are also
incorporated into the messaging software systems.
- Digital messaging is commonplace now within industry, military and
emergency applications. Most users prefer to communicate in writing
than
verbal means.
- Even in remote locations, email-type computer digital messaging is
possible.
Examples are sailing vessels and expeditions that are without the
typical
coverage of cell-phone towers, telephone lines or other modern
conveniences.
WINLINK2000 is a world-wide digital radio message system which makes
extensive
use of the Internet for forwarding purposes. All messages from
operators
both to and from other users travel to some extent along the internet .
This
advanced means of communications has been proven to be fast, efficient
and
surprisingly reliable. WINLINK also features position reporting,
weather
and bulletin services as well as emergency communications. The basic
system consists of a backbone that
runs the WINLINK2000 software along with "clients" or radio operators
who
are transmitting and receiving messages using a "client" software that
is
then interfaced with an HF radio. Accordingly, the WINLINK2000 system
is the
marriage of radio and the Internet for digital communications. Recent
system usage
statistics prove the popularity of the new system (as of July 2006);
Over 150,000 messages
are transferred and handled monthly from over 9000 users world-wide...
wow!
For more information on WINLINK, check out www.winlink.org.
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