Terry AB5K wrote:
> e. We also need a 5 minute u-tube video demonstrating Winlink showing
> that it takes 5 minutes of actual air time to transmit a simple one line
> message.
I would be very careful going there.
That kind of phenomenon is probably due to either someone having a
misconfigured station, using a deprecated mode (e.g. Pactor 1), and/or
expecting miracles in the face of uncooperative propagation.
It would be very easy to rebut such a video by showing just how (comparatively)
bloody fast Pactor 4 is, or to attempt to mischaracterize the QRM potential of
RTTY by highlighting the transmissions from a poorly-configured station pushing
a nasty AFSK signal.
(Disclosure: I like RTTY. I also am a Winlink user...although most of my use
is in MARS, where there are frequencies dedicated to Winlink use, or on amateur
2 meters due to a bumper crop of VHF nodes in my area; I mostly don't use
amateur Winlink on HF because I do listen before I attempt a connection....)
Personally, I think effort would be better expended by promoting coordination
among users of the automated subbands, and by a heckuva lot of re-education as
to the need to listen before transmitting. RMS Express, a Winlink client,
will try to warn users about a frequency being busy....but it's easy to click
through that warning, and/or to simply not wait long enough to adequately check
if a frequency is in use.
Of course, I've also heard plenty of RTTY, CW, and phone operators who do a
bang-up job of forgetting to listen before keying up, without any software to
ignore.
--
Michael / N1EN
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