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Introduction

The Internet has become the e-mail medium of choice for most hams, but there is a sizeable group of amateurs who often travel beyond the reach of the Internet. This group includes hams at sea, travelers in recreational vehicles (RVs), missionaries, scientists and explorers. No doubt the day will come when wireless, affordable Internet e-mail access will be available from any point on the globe. Until that day arrives, however, Amateur Radio HF digital operators have a very capable substitute!

Articles

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Winlink for ARES - Part I Part II
By Jerry Reimer, KK5CA ARRL South Texas Section Emergency Coordinator
The concept of using Winlink2000 on a national basis is considered by the ARRL Board of Directors and the ARRL Ad-Hoc Committee on ARES Communications.
Introduction to Winlink 2000 (67,237 bytes, PDF file)
QST June, 2002, p.31
One integrated digital system links the VHF/UHF packet networks,ham-to-ham radio messages and Internet e-mail—worldwide.
WinLink 2000--Internet E-mail from Anywhere!
WinLink 2000: A Worldwide HF BBS (98,548 bytes, PDF file)
QST, March, 2000, p.90

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Web Links

Winlink! 2000 CMS -- Enhanced Digital Messaging for Amateur Radio
Winlink 2000 Utilizes enabling technologies and sound operating practices to provide a full-featured radio digital message transfer system, worldwide. Email transfer with attachments, position reporting, graphic and text-based weather bulletins and emergency communications are now available to the Amateur radio community by linking radio to the Internet.

Internet Ham Radio
Computers have been a part of the ham shack for many years now for logging, cw, packet, and other digital modes, so it was inevitable that amateur radio and the Internet should meet.

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ARRL Periodicals Index Search - This database contains the QST index from 1915 to the present and the QEX index from 1981 to the present. For QST issues from 1970 to the present, and some selected articles back to 1950, identifying keywords have been added to the database. By entering keywords (ANTENNA) or combinations of keywords (CONSTRUCTION ANTENNA VERTICAL HF) into the Title words: field, you may create dynamic bibliographies.
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