Address Groups?

[Mark Hogan]

This weeks GLAWN Winlink exercise asks us to create and test a group.  I've been using Pat for at least 100+ weeks  as I have my century award from Va., howeverI always wondered if Pat had an address book.  I found and populated that tonight for my regulars.  I do not see creating a group. Am I missing it or is it not there.  

Below are the winlink express instructions, I am pure Mint here and Pat does all I need (as far as I know). 

Mark Hogan N5OBC  

Optional Exercise: Create and test a Winlink Express Group. Sometimes it is necessary to send a single message to several people and having a group makes that convenient and fast. For example, I have a group for all of my immediate family members. If the internet and power and cell service are unavailable to me, I can send an email message to all of them at once to update our status. 1. Create a message group Settings +> Group Addresses => Add Group 2. Add at least 2 addresses manually by typing or by selecting them from the address book. 3. Save the Group (which will now appear in the contacts list) 4. Create a new message in Winlink Express, plain text is fine 5. To: GLAWN; add your group here. (add GLAWN even if you included it in your group just in case <smile>) 6. Subject: GLAWN Checkin 7. put your checkin data in the message box

[Dominic ›OE7DRT‹]

Mark Hogan <ml.h...@gmail.com> on 2026-03-30 16:08:57 -0700:

> This weeks GLAWN Winlink exercise asks us to create and test a group.
> I've been using Pat for at least 100+ weeks as I have my century
> award from Va., howeverI always wondered if Pat had an address book.
> I found and populated that tonight for my regulars. I do not see
> creating a group. Am I missing it or is it not there.

I've never seen an addressbook in Pat. Do you use the regular Pat?

For regular nets I use custom Templates (that also fill out the
To: address; like Winlink Wednesday is a two-second-clickthrough)

-dominic

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[Dominic ›OE7DRT‹]

Yes now I've seen your crosspost (with the actual description you
mentioned but left out in this email) on the km4ack group on groups.io.

---------- Original message ----------
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 10:49:45 -0500
From: Mark Hogan <ml.h...@gmail.com>
To: Dominic ›OE7DRT‹ <freef...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Address Groups?
Message-ID:
CAPuF-GK3Oqx0T+8jGpV10DoE...@mail.gmail.com

> There’s a helper menu program from KM4ACK that has an address book,
> the forms manager, lookup, profile swaps (I have a vhf & hf),
> propagation and a ton of other stuff.
> https://github.com/km4ack/patmenu2
> In his 73linux is pat menu 3. I don’t have windows anymore and this
> is all I use now.
>
> Mark Hogan N5OBC

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 10:46 PM Dominic ›OE7DRT‹
> <freef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mark Hogan <ml.h...@gmail.com> on 2026-03-30 16:08:57 -0700:
> >
> > > This weeks GLAWN Winlink exercise asks us to create and test a
> > > group. I've been using Pat for at least 100+ weeks as I have my
> > > century award from Va., howeverI always wondered if Pat had an
> > > address book. I found and populated that tonight for my regulars.
> > > I do not see creating a group. Am I missing it or is it not
> > > there.
> >
> > I've never seen an addressbook in Pat. Do you use the regular Pat?
> >
> > For regular nets I use custom Templates (that also fill out the
> > To: address; like Winlink Wednesday is a two-second-clickthrough)
> >
> > -dominic
> >


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