Digital Tools

System Review, WinMor, Soundcard Management

By James K. Darrow WI ARES/RACES ASEC Digital Communications

WI ARES/RACES ConferenceOctober 23-24, 2010

Digital Tools

System Review

How big is your last mile?

The InternetThe Internet

RMS Node with APRS Digi-peater

RMS Node with APRS Digi-peater, and RMS Relay

WI ARES/RACES Data Network

Everyone can message to everyone, knows

what assets are available and where

they’re located.

WinLink RMS

• 36 VHF RMS Packet Nodes 145.610 MHz• 4 UHF RMS Packet Nodes 446.100 MHz• 7 RMS Relay Stations Fox Valley, Milwaukee, Racine Wausau, Pewaukee, Elkhorn, Madison• 2 RMS Pactor Stations Milwaukee 7.100 MHz Fox Valley 7.100 / 3.592 MHz• 1 D-Star 1.2 GHz High speed data station Milwaukee 1298 GHz

Digital Tools

Soundcard Management

RoMac

RoMac Soundcard Management is a tool developed by Roger MacDonald (W8RJ) which allows you to set up each of your programs that use a

sound with its own individual soundcard level, and then launch the program. When you quit the selected

program, RoMac will return all the sound card levels back to normal.

Digital Tools

WinMor

WINMOR stands for WINlink Message Over Radio and is a new HF radio transmission protocol by Rick Muething, KN6KB, of the

Winlink Development Team. Unlike PACTOR, only a simple computer soundcard-to-radio interface is required, and it runs as a "virtual

TNC" (the WINMOR TNC application) together with host software. While WINMOR

may not equal P2 and P3 in total performance, it provides a cost-effective means of using the system, and is more robust and faster than P1. WINMOR is attractive to EmComm users who have trouble justifying the high cost and low

utilization of a P2 and P3 modem.

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