To be in contact with loved ones and colleages has always been the goal of most people exept those who want to dissappear. Winlink 2000 has used the technology developed by the group of German amateurs to setup a system that has really become the life line of many, weather you are a sailor on the high seas, or a missionary in the sticks out in the bush in Africa of South America, or just touring your beautiful country in a motorhome there is now never an excuse to be out of reach if you are a radio amateur.
The system uses HF (also known as shortwave) radio to connect you to a remote mail server and download / upload e-mail to and from anybody anywhere in the world. The funny thing these days are that the third world countries probably offer you internet cafe's but more often than not they charge you more than an arm and a leg for the sub-standard service and even expose you to all sorts of virusses and trojan horses that could steal your identity. This is not the case with Winlink 2000.
To read more on this please visit www.winlink.org .
Greetings
JD
Pretoria
Jan 2007
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Very good blog dr JD
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Your blog is very informative. I've always been interested in shortwave radios and I've also been very interested in the development of using it for internet related stuff like sending email. Thank you for sharing.
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Hay Pretoria sorry, I need step by step guideline for software radio.
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