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Mitchell County ARES

Winlink 2000Digital 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

Medical / Dental Mission

in Auka, Honduras

IHS Medical / Dental mission -- Auka, Honduras

• Mirror image, redundant Common Message Servers (CMS) provide:

– IETF RFC 2821 de facto e-mail 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

•E-mail 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

www.shiptrak.org

• 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 e-mail.

– RMS Packet for VHF/UHF “last mile” e-mail availability to Internet e-mail.

– 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 e-mail

RMS HF Pactor

RMSVHF/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 e-mail clients as a user interface. Contains automatic hierarchical routing, secure login, and “auto-precedence.”

CMS Telnet

Paclink and tactical accounts Winlink station address: KK4MAR@winlink.org Associated tactical addresses: MitchEOC@winlink.org MitchLog@winlink.org MitchEMS-1@winlink.org MitchEMS-2@winlink.org MitchComm@winlink.org

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, 1999.

•4 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 Email 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

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

W4LN-10 145.09 ConcordW4DK-10 145.63W4BQP-10 145.61N1UAN-8 145.05K4PAY-10 145.01 Haskell, VAWK4W-10 145.73 Marion, VA

Hendersonville Spartanburg, SC Kingsport, TN

Mitchell County RMS Packet

Woody's Knob 4170' 145.090 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 II @ 800 bps. P3 @ 3600 bps. Highly recommended over Pactor 1 @ 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 e-mail messaging network.

(However, each community of interest must

put it in place.)

Winlink 2000 Feature OverviewFeatures

Looks and works like common email.

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 OverviewFeatures (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.

Mitchell County ARES

ANY QUESTIONS? HOW ABOUT A DEMO?