Subj : Re: Wannabe HAM
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Sep 22 2016 07:51 am

-=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

 JA> @MSGID: <57E2C2AA.594.fido-amateurr@freeway.apana.org.au>
 JA> @TZ: 412c
 -=> Tony Langdon wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 TL> 2.  RF forwarding.  There is a newer mode in RMS Express where if the
 TL> RMS mailbox (the place you normally exchange Winlink mail with) loses
 TL> Internet connectivity, you can instruct it to forward email via RF to a
 TL> more distant RMS which does have Internet.

 JA> Right - this - this is what I was talking about. :-)

Yes, so Winlink has ways to work around Internet outages over very wide areas.
:)  Of course, you can simply try to link to a more distant Winlink gateway RMS
directly.  My longest successful link has been over 3000 km to Darwin.


.... Nothing is foolproof. Fools are too ingenious.
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