Hello Everyone, We had 10 check-ins this week. Here is the roster: Chris, KD9CZM, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, Telnet - Merry Christmas! Let it snow! Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, VARA FM Lance Tagliapietra, AD0UT, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, Telnet Shawn, KD9KGQ, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VARA VHF Ken, W9GM, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA, VARA FM, 2M Bruce Lange, KC9LLI, Elroy, Juneau, WI, USA Merry Christmas to all on the net from K0GMK, Rochester, MN, Olmsted County, TelNet Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM, Merry Christmas to all... W2ILT, Martin, Laurel Springs, Camden, NJ, VHF Packet sent via W2MMD-3 Dan, K0GIS, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, USA, HF We won't have a net next week. Our next net will be 1-2-25. Fair warning that I'll be doing some traveling between Christmas and New Years and may not have time to send out a reminder for the net on the 2nd. Let's just check in any way you like again and we can start with an exercise on the 1-9-25 net. 73 and Merry Christmas everyone Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, Tomorrow is the last W0NE Winlink Net of 2024 since I will be traveling for Christmas next week. This week check in however you like. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and we will resume the net on 1-1-25. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, We had 7 check-ins from 6 participants this week and some good suggestions for future exercises. I will start trying some of these after the holiday travel season slows down. Here is the roster: N4RJB, RICHARD, PUNTA GORDA, CHARLOTTE, FL, TELNET Chris, KD9CZM, Working in West Bend today Washington County, WI, USA, VARA HF - Curious about Winlink 'chat' or bulletin board capabilities Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM - Just practice with some of the most common forms Shawn, KD9KGQ, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VARA VHF - Sending an attachment such as a CSV file. Ken, W9GM, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA, Packet, 2M, W0NE-10 v KD9KGQ-7 - Possibly exercises using P2P (2x check-in) Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, VARA FM 73 and see you later this week. Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, Tomorrow is our weekly net. For the check-in tomorrow, send a regular one-line check-in. On the next line please provide an something you would like to practice or learn about the Winlink system. I will use these in future exercises. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, We had 9 check-ins this week, and it looks like Peter is back from Colorado. Welcome Back! Here is the roster: Ed, N3YDN, Bear, New Castle, DE, USA, VHF Packet Dan, K0GIS, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, USA, HF Chris, KD9CZM, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VARA HF - John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made its dwelling among us. N4RJB, Richard, Punta Gorda, Charlotte, FL , Radio Mail, Telnet Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM Ken, W9GM, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA, Packet, 2M, W0NE-10 v KD9KGQ-7 Greg, KD9VPJ, ROMEOVILLE, WILL, IL, USA, VARA HF Peter, KD0YOB, Lewiston, Minnesota, USA, Packet Winlink Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, USA, VARA FM via KU0HN-10 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. Let's do a standard check-in this week. Hope to hear from all of you tomorrow. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, We had 8 check-ins this week. Here is the roster: Shawn, KD9KGQ, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VHF Packet Ken, W9GM, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA, VARA HF, 30M Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, USA, VHF Packet W0NE Winlink check-in, K0GMK, Mark Kelm, Rochester, MN, Olmsted County. 73 Chris, KD9CZM, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VARA HF - Happy Thanksgiving! Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM Boney, NAØSA, Rochester, MN, (On Vacation) RadioMail on iOS [WL2K TELNET] Dan, K0GIS, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, USA, HF We won't have a net next week since it's Thanksgiving. Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, Tomorrow is our weekly Winlink net. Let's just do a standard check-in template or one-line check-in this week. This week is busy for me at work so I may not have the results out until the weekend. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, Next time I feel like checking in this way I won't subject you all to it :-) Here's this week's rather short roster: ben,ku0hn,winona winona mn aprs Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM N4RJB, RICHARD, PUNTA GORDA, CHARLOTTE, FL, VARA UHF, W4DIG-10 That list is a bit short so if I missed anyone please let me know! 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, It's time again for our weekly Winlink net. I want to recycle another exercise from about a year ago and do check-ins this week using APRSLink. I found the exercise frustrating last time, but it did give me a bit of a perspective shift in the utility of the APRS network for things other than location tracking. The instructions for using APRSlink are on the Winlink site here: https://winlink.org/APRSLink. The login process is similar to using Winlink over packet without a client. For the check-in message, just one line with the standard check-in is sufficient. Keeping messages short is recommended. If you have more than one radio or client, feel free to send multiple check-ins. You can note which set-up you are using in the check-in. If you don't have APRS set up, feel free to check in by whatever other means you like. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, Thanks for checking in this week. We have a first-timer this week. Welcome Dan, K0GIS. Here is this week's roster: Dan, K0GIS, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, US, HF Ken, W9GM, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA, VARA-HF Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, US, Vara HF Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM Chris, KD9CZM, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VARA HF - God Bless America! Boney, NAØSA, Rochester, MN, RadioMail on iOS [WL2K TELNET] 73 and see you all next week Ben - KU0HN

Happy Wednesday everyone, Tomorrow is our weekly net. We had what I thought was a successful exercise last week. Let's take it easy this week and just do a normal check-in in your preferred format. If you normally use VHF, maybe try HF this week, or if you normally use HF, try VHF if possible. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello all, We had 8 check-ins this week and some digipeater practice according to my logs here. Here are the check-ins for the week: Lance Tagliapietra, AD0UT, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, Telnet Shawn, KD9KGQ, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VHF Packet Paul, N0BBD, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, VHF Packet to W9GM-10 via W0NE-7 Ken, W9GM, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA, Packet, KU0HN-10 via W0NE-7 Chris, KD9CZM, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VHF Packet N4RJB, RICHARD, PUNTA GORDA, CHARLOTTE, FL,TELNET Greg, KD9VPJ, ROMEOVILLE, WILL, IL, USA, VARA HF 73 all and happy November, Ben - KU0HN

Good Morning All, Tomorrow is our weekly Winlink net. I am going to recycle an exercise from this time last year because I think it's good practice. This week's exercise will be to send a message--use the standard check-in--using packet Winlink, but rather than connecting directly, connect via a digipeater or using a connect script to go through one or more packet nodes. This is useful if you are in a location with no local gateway, or if the internet connection is down at your local gateway. A suggested path for those in Winona or La Crosse might be to connect to W9GM-10 via W0NE-7 on 145.030 or KU0HN-10 via W0NE-7 on 145.670. In Rochester, you could connect to W0NE-10 via MNROC2 on 145.670. To use a digipeater in Winlink Express, simple fill in the gateway you want to connect to and put the digipeater's SSID in the box after "Via." In PAT, you need to type "/" or leave a space in between the target digipeater and the gateway. For example, "W0NE-7/W9GM-10" or "W0NE-7 W9GM-10" is the connection string to use the W9GM-10 gateway with W0NE-7 digipeating. Connect scripts only work in Winlink Express at this time, but they are a bit more powerful. To connect to W0NE-10 through MNROC2, set the connection type to Script and use the following script: C MNROC2 CONN !WAITFOR ? C W0NE-10 LINK More information on digipeaters and scripts can be found here: https://www.qsl.net/w4eat/w4eat/Making_a_packet_connection_to_a_.htm 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hi All, We had 5 check-ins this week. Here is the roster: Chris, KD9CZM, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VARA FM (Weather Report take 2. Worked this time.) N0BBD, Paul, Washington, Franklin, MO, USA, VHF, VARA FM Ken, W9GM, Rochester, Olmsted, MN, WoAD Shawn, KD9KGQ, Holmen, La Crosse County, WI, USA, VHF Packet Ben, KU0HN, Lewiston, Winona, MN, USA, VHF Packet Thanks for taking the time to participate this week. We will see you all next week. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Good Morning All, Today is our weekly Winlink net. We will do a standard check-in this week, either the check-in form or one line in the subject. Thanks and 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hi Everyone, Tomorrow is our weekly Winlink net. If you have forms, send a Weather Report form this week. If not, feel free to send a regular check-in. I'm going to be doing some traveling at the end of the week so the net roster may be later than normal. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hi all, The Winlink Development team has requested all non-essential activity using the Winlink network be suspended until after hurricane Milton has moved on and response efforts have turned to recovery. We will plan to resume the net on October 17. 73, Ben - KU0HN

Hello Everyone, We had 6 check-ins this week from 5 participants. Here is the map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1GsyahVRmSytn4zx6wD2GXIjnUVFk8zk&usp=sharing Last time we did the position report exercise, some people's reports got missed/lost. If that happened this time, please let me know and maybe we can figure out what happened. 73, Ben - KU0HN