Winlink Field Day Challenge

[Gary Hutton KE7UIA]

Purpose: 

• to get familiar Catalog requests
• Post your location to winlnk
• Request a list of users near your location
• Send a winlink email to someone not of your group

Procedures:

1. Post your location to winlink
   1. Settings: GPS/Position Reports
   2. Enter: Current Time
   3. Enter Latitude/Longitude
   4. Enter Comment: UCARES Field Day Challenge
   5. Post Report
   6. Connect to gateway and send email
2. Request a list of users near your location
   1. Settings: Winlink Catalog Requests: WL2K_USERS: WL2K_NEARBY
   2. Post Report
   3. Connect to gateway and send email
   4. wait 10 minutes and reconnect
3. Send a winlink email to someone not of your group
   1. Read the email from SERVICE: INQUIRY:WL2K_NEARBY
   2. Send a winlink to someone not of your group
4. Bonus:
   1. Send General Message (ICS213) form to UCARESNET

Remember just have fun with this and enjoy your time at Field Day.