I also use ham radio pactor to communicate.  Anyone interested in seeing it work can send me a
short message at this address: K0CM@bna.win-net.org

This will send your mail to an amateur radio station in Nashville (Airport ID=BNA) which will hold it for me until I check in via radio.

You might also let me know by regular e-mail (rhoops@orion.org) that you've sent it since I don't check winlink mail regularly.

I use a device called a PK-232, as a radio modem. It connects between the computer and the HF SSB radio.

Here is a link to the new owners of the PK-232:

There is a program called "airmail" that makes this system pretty easy to use. It's similar to Eudora internet e-mail. You pick the station you want to send to and then select from a list of frequencies know for that station.

The software establishes the radio link, checks for incoming mail and sends your outgoing mail, then disconnects.

PK-232 information http://www.timewave.com/

K4CJX's WinLink / internet link
http://winlink.org/k4cjx/
http://winlink.org/k4cjx/What_Win.htm

And here's something about AirMail
http://winlink.org/k4cjx/dwnload.htm

As Byron says it is chokingly slow (200 bps at it's very best), but it can deliver a message this size in less than a minute.

On the other hand if you downloaded all the messages on this list, it might take you several hours and clog the system terribly.

Randy Hoops - KØCM - Springfield, MO
http://members.dialnet.net/rhoops
1973 31' Airstream Sovereign on Table Rock Lake near Branson