Speaker 1: I've been getting into a little bit of wind Link
Speaker 1: over the last say month or so. Now. I've had
Speaker 1: a win Link account for a while and I did
Speaker 1: a lot of wind Link emails recently at hamcation, but
Speaker 1: this was after I had an account. I just haven't
Speaker 1: really done it that much up until recently. So there
Speaker 1: is an app called win Link over Android which works
Speaker 1: really well on your Android device. And we're going to
Speaker 1: take a look at that and gonna go through all
Speaker 1: the menus and all the steps and send some wind
Speaker 1: Link emails. So let's go. You guys are aware that
Speaker 1: I turned fifty last year, right, So this is what
Speaker 1: WODE looks like. I've got the screen shared from my
Speaker 1: Android device. I wonder if I could I wonder if
Speaker 1: this would mess everything up? Oh look at that. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Galaxy z Fold four pretty slick. Huh that's not bad? Okay, awesome, Okay.
Speaker 1: So this is when Link over Android, or what they
Speaker 1: call wode wad It is a free app. These are
Speaker 1: the emails that I've received recently. I've been trading emails
Speaker 1: back and forth for a little while. Some of these
Speaker 1: are from Hamcash. Some of these are after I got
Speaker 1: home from Hamcash When I did get home from Hamkash,
Speaker 1: I looked up the closest packet whin link node to me.
Speaker 1: Because woad only works with packet. It doesn't work with
Speaker 1: VARA FM or VARAHF or packed or any of the
Speaker 1: other things you can get it to work with, like
Speaker 1: doing like a server to client relationship somewhere to where
Speaker 1: VARA is running on a laptop and you connect to
Speaker 1: WADE from your phone to your laptop or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't done it. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: exactly what to do. Maybe if you guys are interested
Speaker 1: in that, let me know in the comments below, and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll look at trying to figure something like that out.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, natively without any other devices,
Speaker 1: Woad only works with packet, and I've been using Packet
Speaker 1: a lot over the last couple of weeks. When I
Speaker 1: got home from Hamcash, I looked up the closest packet
Speaker 1: link to me, a Packet node to me Packet Gateway,
Speaker 1: and I'm on one forty four nine ten right now.
Speaker 1: It's a little washed out in the screen, but that's
Speaker 1: what we're on right now, and that's connected to the
Speaker 1: k E five et repeater in South Lake, Texas, which
Speaker 1: is part of the net ARC Club. Northeast Terrance Amateur
Speaker 1: Radio Club. Been to their meetings a few times, although
Speaker 1: it's been a while. So we're connected over there. I've
Speaker 1: got the uv pro connected to my outside antenna and
Speaker 1: we're gonna go through the menus here on WAD real quick.
Speaker 1: The UV pro is great because it has a full
Speaker 1: kiss tn C similar to the Kenwood D seventy four
Speaker 1: and D seventy five, or similar to any other device
Speaker 1: that you might hook a digirig or a moby linked too.
Speaker 1: So I'll put a link to the uv Pro in
Speaker 1: the description BLOW, and I have a ten percent off
Speaker 1: coupon from Bailfing Tech for that radio. I'll put all
Speaker 1: that in the description Blow. You guys can go check
Speaker 1: that out if you want to. So this is the
Speaker 1: inbox in WADE. You can see it right there. These
Speaker 1: are all the emails i've received. One bad thing. If
Speaker 1: you know what Post Office protocol is from back in
Speaker 1: the day pop email, when you would log into the server,
Speaker 1: download your emails and disconnect over dial up, it pulled
Speaker 1: all your emails off the server. And once they're gone,
Speaker 1: they're gone. So they're on your local device. So if
Speaker 1: you're checking win link from a laptop, from a tablet,
Speaker 1: from a radio mail on an iPad device, or a
Speaker 1: patwind link on a Linux device, or road on an
Speaker 1: Android device, every time you log in and download emails,
Speaker 1: they're going to live on that device and that device only.
Speaker 1: You won't get them on all your other devices. So
Speaker 1: decide where you want to most of your emails to live,
Speaker 1: and that use that device as much as you can.
Speaker 1: There's basically three menus here. We can go to this
Speaker 1: top left and we can see inbox, sent outbox, trash, drafts, partials,
Speaker 1: and archives. So yeah, that's the trash. These are my
Speaker 1: sent mails right there. You can see all that. It
Speaker 1: highlights all those. That's of course my inbox. When I
Speaker 1: write a new email and click post to outbox, it'll
Speaker 1: show up in the outbox right here, and you can
Speaker 1: see the outbox. There's no number next to it. There's
Speaker 1: nothing in the out box waiting. So I'm gonna type
Speaker 1: up an email here in just a second, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: post it the outbox. Then i'm gonna send it and
Speaker 1: see you show you what it looks like there. Of
Speaker 1: course there's new message like that and generally speaking, I'm
Speaker 1: using a very wide screen phone right now. So if
Speaker 1: we go here and close that, this is what kind
Speaker 1: of the format of a normal phone would look like.
Speaker 1: You've got your little pencil icon in the top right there.
Speaker 1: You click on that and it creates a new email.
Speaker 1: But for the purposes of this video, I'm gonna open
Speaker 1: it up a little bit wider. Those of you with
Speaker 1: a wider screen phone, or with maybe using it on
Speaker 1: an Android tablet, you might see a little bit more
Speaker 1: information like this. But you got new message up there
Speaker 1: at the top. Of course, you click that and it
Speaker 1: opens up a brand new message. New message from template.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of templates in here. You can get
Speaker 1: standard templates, other templates, ARC, California State, Canadian forms, FEMA, FMRE,
Speaker 1: general forms on what's in there, customizable form, GPS position report,
Speaker 1: field situation report, that kind of thing. I've not really
Speaker 1: used in any of the templates in here, don't really know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you would use them in an InCom situation, sure,
Speaker 1: but I haven't really done any of that. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: something I can dive into in another video. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to really talk about that today. If we click
Speaker 1: the three that the little Hamburger menu at the top
Speaker 1: right the three dots, you get messages, setting sessions, logs,
Speaker 1: contact other, and about and if you click on other
Speaker 1: right there, that is where you get several other things
Speaker 1: in here. And we can do a position report. If
Speaker 1: I do a position report, it's going to come up
Speaker 1: with my I do a weather report too, it's going
Speaker 1: to come up with a position report. It's gonna come
Speaker 1: up with my GPS coordinates, my grid square, my six
Speaker 1: digit maidenhead grid square, and some other information about where
Speaker 1: I am and the cool thing I have found recently.
Speaker 1: This is something that Mike Kate, m r and D
Speaker 1: showed me through Windleak Express on the Windows app. But
Speaker 1: then I got much more detailed and clear information from
Speaker 1: km fo ack at him kah about it. You can
Speaker 1: spot yourself on the wind link map up through this
Speaker 1: position report, and you can do this through wind link
Speaker 1: Express or radio mail or any of them, and you
Speaker 1: can send a short message and then it comes up
Speaker 1: on winlink dot org. You go into positions and you
Speaker 1: go to and you can search by call sign or
Speaker 1: you can just kind of see all the positions at once.
Speaker 1: You can mouse over them and see whateveryone is doing,
Speaker 1: and the common factor. The common practice is to put green, yellow,
Speaker 1: or red in front of your message. So like last week,
Speaker 1: I said green, hemcas poda event. Green means everything's good,
Speaker 1: Yellow means I've got a problem, but I can probably
Speaker 1: fix it myself stand by, and red means send help now.
Speaker 1: So it can be a very good, albeit slow way
Speaker 1: to send out help requests through wind link email if
Speaker 1: you're out in the woods and can send acause you
Speaker 1: can send win link over HF. So you're like, well,
Speaker 1: if you're out the woods out of cell coverage, then
Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna have a packet modem near you
Speaker 1: for your two meter repeater for your two meter radio.
Speaker 1: And that's true. But you can send wind link over
Speaker 1: twenty meters and forty meters and eighty meters to several
Speaker 1: states or countries away as well, so there's a way
Speaker 1: around that a little bit more range than APRS. So
Speaker 1: I might try to send I wonder what weather. I've
Speaker 1: never actually done this weather report yet update via internet,
Speaker 1: So I'm told that if you update throughse reports via
Speaker 1: the message that it takes a long time and it
Speaker 1: uses a lot of bandwidth on the node you're connecting to.
Speaker 1: So generally speaking, we want to update that via internet
Speaker 1: if you're updating the nodes you're connected to or anything
Speaker 1: like that. So today is February thirteenth, and that's that,
Speaker 1: and then we can yeap update via message update. So
Speaker 1: it's just telling me the weather where I'm at. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really have an option here to post to outback box.
Speaker 1: But if I were to go back and go to
Speaker 1: position report here, it would give me the position report.
Speaker 1: You could check your grid square to make sure it
Speaker 1: was correct, and you would have an option at the
Speaker 1: bottom to post to outbox. So I might have to
Speaker 1: I haven't tinkered with this weather thing. I might tinker
Speaker 1: with that later. But that is the menu at the
Speaker 1: top left and then at our top right rather and
Speaker 1: then at the bottom right, we can click on the
Speaker 1: three dots there and you can you can select a
Speaker 1: message over here and you can forward it, delete it,
Speaker 1: mark on red Tag's archive, export, copy to clipboard, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Typical stuff. You can you can send
Speaker 1: an acknowledgment. At the bottom there you can reply, or
Speaker 1: you can reply to all. Generally speaking that reply to all.
Speaker 1: I've found that unless you're on a group blast. The
Speaker 1: reply to all is not really used that much, but
Speaker 1: you know, if you're on a group email, you can
Speaker 1: email to a lot of people and then reply to
Speaker 1: all would be applicable. So and then of course you've
Speaker 1: got your outbox at the bottom left there, and that's
Speaker 1: just telling you where you are. If you go to
Speaker 1: I'm sorry inbox at the bottom left there, and if
Speaker 1: you go to scent, it's gonna say scent at the
Speaker 1: bottom left. If you go to out box, it's going
Speaker 1: to make sure there's nothing in there. So let's type
Speaker 1: up a email real quick, and I'm going to send
Speaker 1: it to a couple of people that I know. And
Speaker 1: if you want to send me a win link email,
Speaker 1: send me a win Link email at case five h
Speaker 1: t w'd be at winlink dot org. You can send
Speaker 1: it from your wind link account, or you can send
Speaker 1: it from a regular Gmail or inner account, Yahoo or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I'm told that maybe maybe I'll try to tinker
Speaker 1: with this a little bit, because I haven't actually tried
Speaker 1: this myself. But if you put in the subject line,
Speaker 1: if you put forward slash forward slash wl two k,
Speaker 1: it will apparently bypass the spam filters that exist in
Speaker 1: wind Link and will allow your internet message to come through,
Speaker 1: so you can email someone from your Gmail or Hotmail
Speaker 1: or Yahoo address or your work email address. If you
Speaker 1: put forward slash forward slash wl two k in front
Speaker 1: at the front of the subject line in your message
Speaker 1: and just send it to case five hwb at winlink
Speaker 1: dot org. See if it works. Somebody try that and
Speaker 1: see if it works now. If you're interested in starting
Speaker 1: wind link or getting into win link email, you don't
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Speaker 1: for Sporting this channel. All right, So I'm going to
Speaker 1: write an email, and I'm gonna write a new message,
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna I'm gonna send uh I'm gonna
Speaker 1: send Jason a message cam for ack. He told me
Speaker 1: at Hamcash that he checks his wind Link email just
Speaker 1: about every day. So I'm not gonna tell you guys
Speaker 1: to spamcamfo ack. I'm asking you to send me an email,
Speaker 1: send me a win Link mail, because I send an
Speaker 1: email out to my email blast the other day and
Speaker 1: I've probably got about almost two dozen of you that
Speaker 1: have sent me a wind Link email from that. But
Speaker 1: uh so send me a message. But if you want
Speaker 1: to send Jason a message, you know he does check
Speaker 1: it every day. I'm just gonna say that out loud
Speaker 1: right there. Okay, So, uh let's put subject here of
Speaker 1: making a video about wode. There we go. Hey, just
Speaker 1: wanted to demonstrate how to type and post a win
Speaker 1: Link email. And now after I'm done with that seventy
Speaker 1: three whatever I want to put there, I click on
Speaker 1: post to outbox there at the bottom, and it posts
Speaker 1: it to my outbox message but has been posted your outbox. Now,
Speaker 1: if we go here to the top left we'll see
Speaker 1: one message. We'll see a one next to outbox that
Speaker 1: means it's waiting to be sent. I'm gonna do one
Speaker 1: more for good measure. Now, all of these messages in
Speaker 1: here you can see. At the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: I've gotten messages from KD seven s c C KK
Speaker 1: five g x f k E four d h x
Speaker 1: intwo z K eighty four fm A F four f
Speaker 1: A k Q four qg q c j KK seven
Speaker 1: A N three x g KD five U j L
Speaker 1: my buddy Roger, who's involved in part of the win
Speaker 1: link gate way we're gonna use today K five vxx
Speaker 1: KO four I L y in four lpk k I
Speaker 1: five r r H. There's several from KM four a
Speaker 1: CK and then five s KT. That was last week
Speaker 1: when we were at ham khon Katam Murdie right there.
Speaker 1: So let's let's send one to Mike, because why not. Right,
Speaker 1: Mike's actually been pretty good. He's been actually interested in
Speaker 1: win link and been sending win Link emails a lot recently,
Speaker 1: win Link sending you a message from my phone using wood.
Speaker 1: There we go and post to outbox. Now we now
Speaker 1: we go and look and the outbox is got a
Speaker 1: two next to it. Okay, so now we've got two
Speaker 1: messages waiting to send. We have no idea how many
Speaker 1: messages are waiting to come in. I know, for fact,
Speaker 1: at zero because I just checked my win Link email messages.
Speaker 1: I should have waited. But we'll see what happens with that.
Speaker 1: Maybe someone replied to those one of those messages I
Speaker 1: just sent. Now we click on the the three dots
Speaker 1: at the top right of the corner, top right of
Speaker 1: the screen. Rather okay, and we go. We click onions.
Speaker 1: Now these sessions. That's a tailnet session there in the middle.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a node a gateway near you,
Speaker 1: you can cheat and use telnet. Okay, N five two
Speaker 1: N four bu T in Orlando. The top one there,
Speaker 1: that's the one that's closest to himcasion. It's very easy
Speaker 1: to get into with a with a taller antenna. You
Speaker 1: can't really make it with a rubber duck, at least
Speaker 1: not from when we were camped. But I set up
Speaker 1: my edfong J poll and the antenna ed fong J
Speaker 1: pole antenna in the parking lot. It worked fine. This
Speaker 1: one down here is k E fiven at South lake,
Speaker 1: and again all of these are packet nodes, so I
Speaker 1: highlight the one that I want to use, okay, and
Speaker 1: that's we're gonna use that one. So I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: that one for next year, hopefully I has to have
Speaker 1: this phone. And then we're gonna click on start down
Speaker 1: at the bottom here, and we're gonna see running unconnected.
Speaker 1: You might hear the radio in the background running like that.
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna send messages. Sending messages one okay, and
Speaker 1: that was it, so I don't think anything came in.
Speaker 1: You'll see the out box is clear. We're all good there.
Speaker 1: We've sent three email no two emails, and we didn't
Speaker 1: receive any emails. But if we would have received emails,
Speaker 1: they would be highlighted here in that purple color, similar
Speaker 1: to how everything right there is highlighted. That means I
Speaker 1: haven't read the message since it went into the scent box,
Speaker 1: so they're highlighted down here on the bottom in that
Speaker 1: purple color. So if I had any new emails in
Speaker 1: my inbox right now, they would be highlighted as well.
Speaker 1: But that's just kind of a quick rundown of wode
Speaker 1: wind link over Android is what WOADE stands for again.
Speaker 1: It is a free application in the Google Place Tour.
Speaker 1: I have used it on my r Finder tablet. I've
Speaker 1: used it on this is my Samsung Galaxy z fold
Speaker 1: four and I used it on the B one a
Speaker 1: long time ago, my r Finder B one a long
Speaker 1: time ago as well. So it works on a variety
Speaker 1: of Android platforms. Works really well. I've been really enjoying
Speaker 1: win Link. I'm actually going to take a road trip
Speaker 1: next week at the time of this recording. By the
Speaker 1: time you watch this video, I'll probably be I'll either
Speaker 1: be on the road or maybe I might be back
Speaker 1: and I might not be back. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send position reports along the way just because
Speaker 1: I think it's a cool thing to do. It's kind
Speaker 1: of something new that I that I came up with
Speaker 1: to do. So send me a win link email KC
Speaker 1: five hwbtwhenlink dot org. Send it to me from your
Speaker 1: wind link account if you can, or send me an
Speaker 1: email from your Gmail or y'ahoo or wherever that is
Speaker 1: by putting that signifier at the front of the subject line,
Speaker 1: and I will respond to you. I've been really enjoying
Speaker 1: win link lately. I've been I've I want to build
Speaker 1: my own gateway, which we're going to do a live
Speaker 1: stream about soon. I want to do a deeper dive
Speaker 1: into win Link Express, RMS Express win Link Express on
Speaker 1: a Windows box because it's got a lot lot more
Speaker 1: features than these apps do on the phones. So more
Speaker 1: to come on that later. Tell me what you'd like
Speaker 1: to know and see about whin link in the description blow.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching.