Sun Coast Amateur <br>Radio Club Society - blog:2020-09-15https://scarcs.ca/2026-05-14T08:40:57+00:00FeedCreator 1.8more_info_on_the_radio_aboard_iss2020-09-16T03:19:43+00:002020-09-16T03:19:43+00:002020-09-16T03:19:43+00:00https://scarcs.ca/blog/2020-09-15/more_info_on_the_radio_aboard_issAnonymous
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<a href="http://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/" class="urlextern" title="http://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/</a>
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<strong>Update</strong>: I was wondering why the radio needed to be modified for space and found this <a href="https://nepp.nasa.gov/npsl/" class="urlextern" title="https://nepp.nasa.gov/npsl/" rel="ugc nofollow">NASA Parts Selection List</a> page. Pretty interesting stuff – <em><a href="mailto:va7fi@rbox.me" class="mail" title="va7fi@rbox.me">Patrick, VA7FI</a> 2020/09/15 20:18</em>
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no_more_winmor2024-11-24T20:47:29+00:002024-11-24T20:47:29+00:002024-11-24T20:47:29+00:00https://scarcs.ca/blog/2020-09-15/no_more_winmorAnonymous
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From <a href="https://winlink.org/content/winmor_deprecated" class="urlextern" title="https://winlink.org/content/winmor_deprecated" rel="ugc nofollow">Winlink</a>:
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10 July 2020 ‒ The Board of Directors of the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation voted in a recent virtual meeting to deprecate the WINMOR <abbr title="High Frequency">HF</abbr> mode in the Winlink system. The protocol was introduced by its author Rick Muething, KN6KB, at the 2008 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference in Chicago. It was the first popular —sound card' radio mode to offer an alternative to <abbr title="High Frequency">HF</abbr> hardware modems for bulk digital transport. Rick moved on by developing the Amateur Radio Digital Open Protocol (ARDOP), which was introduced in 2015 as a replacement to WINMOR with superior speed, robustness, and multiple bandwidth options. Nevertheless, until recently, WINMOR remained popular for learning and experimentation while other more robust and better-performing new modes became the workhorses of Winlink message transport.
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The Winlink Team now devotes its resources to other projects and will drop support for WINMOR on the Winlink system. Other modes offer the same advantages with superior performance.
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We request all <abbr title="High Frequency">HF</abbr> <abbr title="Radio Message Server">RMS</abbr> gateway sysops still offering WINMOR to remove it in favor of ARDOP, VARA <abbr title="High Frequency">HF</abbr> and Pactor 3 or 4, where permitted by local rules. In an upcoming release WINMOR will be removed from Winlink Team software, making way for better, speedier, more robust and modern <abbr title="High Frequency">HF</abbr> digital modes. WINMOR had a good, long and productive run.
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‒The ARSFI Board of Directors <br/>
‒The Winlink Development Team
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I've just given <strong>Ardop Winlink</strong> a try and I had no problem connecting to a station in the US on 80m using my usual setup with the 7300.
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For more info about ARDOP, see this <a href="https://www.winlink.org/content/ardop_overview" class="urlextern" title="https://www.winlink.org/content/ardop_overview" rel="ugc nofollow">Winlink page</a>. I've also updated our <a href="https://scarcs.ca/links/winlink#winlink_messages" class="wikilink1" title="links:winlink" data-wiki-id="links:winlink">Winlink How-To</a> page and created a new <a href="https://scarcs.ca/links/winlink_ardop" class="wikilink1" title="links:winlink_ardop" data-wiki-id="links:winlink_ardop">Winlink ARDOP</a> page.
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