Winlink 2000
(WL2K) RMS User Proficiency Measurement
Goal:
To increase the number of Winlink Gateways (RMS) that a WL2K
user
can access.
Measurement: To have a Successful
Connect (in a legal manner) with as many different RMS stations as
possible on as many different Bands as possible.
Successful Connect: In a single
Connection, Send a message (minimum 2K compressed) from your Winlink
email account to your commercial email account AND Receive a
message (minimum 2K compressed) from your commercial email account to
your Winlink email account.
Groups:
1. HF (any protocol, any Band)
2. HF (any protocol, all HF Bands which the RMS scans)
3. VHF/UHF (packet, Direct Connection)
4. VHF/UHF (packet, via a packet Network)
Documentation: Keep a
spreadsheet with the following information:
1. Date
2. Time
3. RMS callsign
4. RMS location (City, State)
5. Band
6. Protocol (pactor 3, ARDOP, etc
7. Notes....Quality of Connection, etc
8. Group 1: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used
9. Group
2: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used on all scanned Bands
10. Group
3: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used
11. Group
4: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used
12. Total of Groups 1-4
Reporting: None
required
Awards: The safisfaction
that comes from being able to help others and being "proficient" at a
task!
by Don Felgenhauer
K7BFL December 21, 2018