Mitchell County ARES

Winlink 2000 Digital Messaging for EmComm By Waterman, K4CJX Winlink 2000 NetwSteveork Administrator, Winlink 2000 Development Team “Our primary mission is to provide Global digital communications for the benefit, safety and well-being of our user communities, anywhere at anytime.” International Boat Watch Network Friend Ships

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Mirror image, redundant Common Message Servers (CMS) provide: –IETF RFC 2821 de facto between Winlink 2000 users and Internet Recipients over telnet, Web mail or Radio links. –Retrieval of Weather and other information available as files or URL pages from the Internet. –Position Reporting for Mobile applications. Winlink 2000 Topology IN and OUT Real-Time RMS access Real-Time TelNET access WX and other Info Position Reporting WIEN CMS PERTH CMS SAN DIEGO CMS HALIFAX CMS

Radio Message Servers “RMS” are always connected to the CMS System via the Internet in a star network topology, serving as radio nodes on the Winlink 2000 network. –RMS Pactor for HF provides short or long haul availability to internet . –RMS Packet for VHF/UHF “last mile” availability to Internet . –RMS Relay provides continual communications with the CMS system when no Internet is available to bridge the “last mile.”

RMS HF Pactor RMS VHF/UHF Packet To CMS’s (Round Robin)‏ RMS Gateways provide real-time access to the CMS system from many locations, worldwide. It actually bridges HF radio to the Internet. –The RMS systems are separated into “classes” such as the “Government” class, or the Amateur Radio class. –In each class, the RMS system nodes are all redundant, mirror images of each other. –Should an RMS Pactor Gateway be separated from the Internet, it will become invisible to the radio user. –Radio users understand that they may check in on any RMS Pactor Gateway within their licensed class, depending on propagation, and the RMS availability to the Internet. CMS Telnet & WEB browser

RMS HF Pactor RMS VHF/UHF Packet To CMS’s (Round Robin) Via Internet Two separate clients: –Airmail, a single application client. –Paclink, a single/Multiple user client with standard POP3 clients as a user interface. Contains automatic hierarchical routing, secure login, and “auto-precedence.” CMS Telnet

Paclink and tactical accounts Winlink station address: Associated tactical addresses:

In today’s World, we cannot predict the size, nature or location of our disaster areas! We be must prepared. Local?Regional?Global?

Winlink 2000 Today… by the numbers Over 99% system availability since Nov, Full-time, Redundant, Mirror image, Common Message Servers (CMS) in Halifax, San Diego, Perth, and Vienna, all in hardened sites, providing excellent reliability, worldwide. Over 100 HF RMS Stations, worldwide, in 3 Service Classes maintain separate service classes for their own operation. More EmComm Classes coming! Public & EmComm Amateur, Army MARS, UK Cadet Forces Approximately 10,000 Weekly Radio users communicating with over 98,000 recipients, pushing an average of 150,000 messages or 280,000 minutes, monthly, with an average duration of 3.4 Minutes at 3,600 bytes/per message. The average time from message origination to pickup for delivery is approximately 3.5 minutes, regardless of distance. In the EmComm Amateur service class, there are 315 Active VHF/UHF “Local Area” message stations (including one in Mitchell County on Woody's Knob).

Welcome to the Power of Winlink 2000 ! Where in the World are you? It doesn’t matter!

RMS Pactor HF Stations KC4TVO

Real-time Status VHF/UHF / RMS Packet: 346 Active shown MARS VHF numbers increasing (not shown).

Region RMS Packet Stations

Mitchell County RMS Packet Woody's Knob 4170' MHz Grid Sq EM85wv Backup power Internet provided by MAIN 50W, 6.7 dB ant.

A WINLINK 2000 HF LONG RANGE FIELD STATION Amateur radio High Frequency (HF) transceiver. Pactor capable modem: Pactor 800 bps bps. Highly recommended over Pactor 200 bps. ( Example: an 80 Kbyte file on Pactor 1: approx. 80 Min, On Pactor 3, approx 7-12 min.)‏ HF multi-band (mobile/portable) antenna, and an auto-coupler. Power source. Laptop Computer (Win 2000, XP, Vista) and Airmail for HF.

Winlink 2000 is an existing, proven, operational, redundant, secure, and reliable Amateur Radio messaging network. (However, each community of interest must put it in place.)‏

Winlink 2000 Feature Overview Features Looks and works like common . Uses any combination of SMTP addresses mixed with Radio addresses. Sends binary attachments. Secure due to binary protocol & secure user login. Easy to configure and use Software is free, hardware is NOT! Worldwide, redundant system with its own on-going management and support systems. Utilizes Position Reporting, Catalog of bulletins, WEB browser/Telnet access IT IS AN EXISTING AND OPERATIONAL SYSTEM with dependable, redundant & reliable management.

Winlink 2000 Feature Overview Features (continued) System is Fault tolerant & completely redundant. Flexible Can use existing Packet nodes or digi’s Can use voice Repeaters Can use APRS digipeaters Can use existing Participating Stations (RMS) Has backup remotely located Central Server (CMS) “B2” binary Protocol provides data compression, increases speed and allows binary attachments.

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