Winlink 2000 helping with southern Asia disaster communications

Winlink 2000 helping with southern Asia disaster communications

"Winlink 2000 helping with southern Asia disaster communications

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunamis that hit the region December 26, Amateur Radio operators who have Winlink 2000 capability, many of them maritime, have found Winlink 2000 to be especially helpful to stay in touch with friends and family by e-mail, and to help handle emergency communications.

'Since it interfaces with Internet e-mail, the Worldwide Winlink 2000 ongoing digital radio messaging network does not have to ramp up for such disaster events. It simply handles messages with a different content,' Steve Waterman, K4CJX, explained.

Waterman, of Nashville, Tennessee, is the Winlink 2000 network administrator, a member of the Winlink 2000 Development Team and a member of the ARRL Ad-Hoc Committee on ARES Communications. He has been monitoring the activity on Winlink 2000 in the aftermath of the tsunamis. "


73 fer nw,
Bob N5IET

(old calls KE5CTY - WB5ZQU - WY5L)
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Code may be taking a back seat for now,
but the pioneering spirit that put the code
there in the first place is out front of it all.