What a great way to cover that “extra mile!”

The software is free, and it’s easy to use. If you lose cell phone, long distance service and Internet in your area during a disaster (as happened just a few days ago up on the North Shore of Lake Superior during the catastrophic flooding in Duluth), this is the only way to get an email out - and email is perhaps the single best way to convey detailed information to the outside in a situation like that.

This technology doesn’t hold a candle to the feel of a key in my hand! But it is tremendously valuable for ARES work, no doubt about it. RMS Express will send it off to a Radio Mail Server (RMS) station, which will then send it over the Internet.įor all you CW lovers, I’m still with you. My laptop is hooked up to my Kenwood TS-440S with a DigiMaster Pro+, and as soon as I finish this email I’m going to send it over 40 meters. Wow! Would you believe I’m posting this by email using WINMORE and Winlink 2000? That’s right, the words you’re reading were transmitted over HF.

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