Text 535, 83 rader
Skriven 2007-05-13 18:12:00 av PETER COGGON
     Kommentar till en text av RICHARD WEBB
Ärende: Winlink 2000?
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Hello Richard.... Without reading down this quote...and I am sorry about
it because I read it.... I wonder if you would consider placing this on
packet?

 -=> Quoting Richard Webb to Jay Talbot <=-
 RW> following up a message from Richard Webb to Jay Talbot:
 
 RW> THen I'm sorry, but I'd rather put emergency or priority traffic in
 RW> the hands of humans right now, so that I know it isn't languishing
 RW> on a hard drive somewhere while that agency's version of MIchael
 RW> Brown's griping about having to stand in line too long On other
 RW> traffic, same goes.  I could go on.  I work with folks interfacing
 RW> with it a lot, both through the maritime mobile service network and
 RW> our shiptrack and marob reporting and with national traffic system. 
 RW> IT works well for the folks at sea, and Also the weather
 RW> information the blue water sailors provide to noaa is beneficial to
 RW> them.
 RW> AS I said, it has its good points.  WHen a lot of data needs to be
 RW> transferred, and you're fairly certain that the party on the other end
 RW> is going to be answering or dealing with the information it's another
 RW> tool in the box. SINce you're a fairly new ham I note let me explain
 RW> the big holes I see in it for emcomm.

 RW> Since you're in 5-land somewhere I can pretty well tell you what kind
 RW> of routes third party traffic is going to take from your part of the
 RW> world to the rest. so, let's do the hypothetical and play "what if" for
 RW> a moment. 
 RW> A local disaster has forced you to evacuate your home.  YOu've brought
 RW> along your trusty vhf/uhf gear and enough hardware to get up an antenna
 RW> on a mast. YOur new temporary digs are a tent somewhere, or a cot in a
 RW> school building. 
 RW> AFter you've handled some local tactical traffic for the agencies
 RW> providing relief you send out health and welfare advisory radiograms
 RW> for folks at the shelter who wish to advise family and friends that
 RW> they're safe.  Among those messages you send one to your aunt in
 RW> upstate NEw York. 
 RW> YOur message to your aunt in NEw York finds its way through the system
 RW> to a regular liaison with that part of the world and he bundles the
 RW> message with others going to the eastern area.  HE sends these all on
 RW> winlink to his usual contact up that way. NOw just suppose that his
 RW> contact doesn't get a chance to check radio or regular email.  SUppose
 RW> this contact that would move this traffic up and down the eastern
 RW> seaboard falls from a stepladder and is now hospitalized for a few
 RW> days.  YOur message to your aunt will languish on a hard drive,
 RW> possibly for a week or more. 
 RW> WIth other modes, including pactor II there was the ability for relay
 RW> stations to reroute.  FOr example our long haul guy who put the message
 RW> to NEw YOrk on winlink put it on his pactor bbs system instead (as he
 RW> has one available.) 
 RW> OUR long haul guy from the south tries to connect to his eastern
 RW> seaboard contact for a day or so, but no joy, any band.  Still he isn't
 RW> going to make the phone or cw schedules the next day or so. HE can now
 RW> take the hold off this traffic, and any station that has possibilities
 RW> of moving it on further can now pick it up when connecting to him.

 RW> AT this point a fellow in MIchigan connects with his pactor bbs and
 RW> sees there's traffic listed for the eastern seaboard.  Along with your
 RW> NEw York state there's a NEw JErsey, a NEw Hampshire, A Massachusets
 RW> and a NOrth Carolina.  Even though these are all eastern area our
 RW> MIchigan station can't help with the NOrth Carolina.  HE *can* move the
 RW> NEw YOrk, the NEw JErsey and the Mass. however through a regular
 RW> contact. 
 RW> OUr MIchigan station downloads the traffic he can move, kills it on
 RW> the pactor bbs, makes his contact with his buddy in PEnnsylvania later
 RW> that night.  NOw about 48 hours after it left your hands your aunt
 RW> receives it. your aunt knows you're safe and well but temporarily
 RW> displaced. 
 RW> COntrast that with the broken link on the winlink because the key
 RW> station that was supposed to route the traffic onward couldn't check
 RW> his/her email. 
 RW> 73 de nf5b

 RW> Richard
 RW> ... Amazing how much tape is on a 10" reel when it's not.
 RW> -!- timEd 1.10.y2k+
 RW>  ! Origin: Radio REscue on fidonet       (1:116/901)



... Pete hails from Lake Simcoe,Ontario,CANADA
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