I've been getting into a little bit of wind Link over the last say month or so. Now. I've had a win Link account for a while and I did a lot of wind Link emails recently at hamcation, but this was after I had an account. I just haven't really done it that much up until recently. So there is an app called win Link over Android which works really well on your Android device. And we're going to take a look at that and gonna go through all the menus and all the steps and send some wind
Link emails. So let's go. You guys are aware that I turned fifty last year, right, So this is what WODE looks like. I've got the screen shared from my Android device. I wonder if I could I wonder if this would mess everything up? Oh look at that. Okay, the Galaxy z Fold four pretty slick. Huh that's not bad? Okay, awesome, Okay. So this is when Link over Android, or what they call wode wad It is a free app. These are the emails that I've received recently. I've been trading emails
back and forth for a little while. Some of these are from Hamcash. Some of these are after I got home from Hamcash When I did get home from Hamkash, I looked up the closest packet whin link node to me.
Because woad only works with packet. It doesn't work with VARA FM or VARAHF or packed or any of the other things you can get it to work with, like doing like a server to client relationship somewhere to where VARA is running on a laptop and you connect to WADE from your phone to your laptop or something like that. I don't know, I haven't done it. I'm not sure
exactly what to do. Maybe if you guys are interested in that, let me know in the comments below, and maybe I'll look at trying to figure something like that out. But as of right now, natively without any other devices, Woad only works with packet, and I've been using Packet a lot over the last couple of weeks. When I got home from Hamcash, I looked up the closest packet link to me, a Packet node to me Packet Gateway, and I'm on one forty four nine ten right now.
It's a little washed out in the screen, but that's what we're on right now, and that's connected to the k E five et repeater in South Lake, Texas, which is part of the net ARC Club. Northeast Terrance Amateur Radio Club. Been to their meetings a few times, although it's been a while. So we're connected over there. I've got the uv pro connected to my outside antenna and we're gonna go through the menus here on WAD real quick.
The UV pro is great because it has a full kiss tn C similar to the Kenwood D seventy four and D seventy five, or similar to any other device that you might hook a digirig or a moby linked too. So I'll put a link to the uv Pro in the description BLOW, and I have a ten percent off coupon from Bailfing Tech for that radio. I'll put all that in the description Blow. You guys can go check that out if you want to. So this is the inbox in WADE. You can see it right there. These
are all the emails i've received. One bad thing. If you know what Post Office protocol is from back in the day pop email, when you would log into the server, download your emails and disconnect over dial up, it pulled all your emails off the server. And once they're gone,
they're gone. So they're on your local device. So if you're checking win link from a laptop, from a tablet, from a radio mail on an iPad device, or a patwind link on a Linux device, or road on an Android device, every time you log in and download emails, they're going to live on that device and that device only. You won't get them on all your other devices. So decide where you want to most of your emails to live, and that use that device as much as you can.
There's basically three menus here. We can go to this top left and we can see inbox, sent outbox, trash, drafts, partials, and archives. So yeah, that's the trash. These are my sent mails right there. You can see all that. It highlights all those. That's of course my inbox. When I write a new email and click post to outbox, it'll show up in the outbox right here, and you can see the outbox. There's no number next to it. There's
nothing in the out box waiting. So I'm gonna type up an email here in just a second, I'm gonna post it the outbox. Then i'm gonna send it and see you show you what it looks like there. Of course there's new message like that and generally speaking, I'm using a very wide screen phone right now. So if we go here and close that, this is what kind of the format of a normal phone would look like. You've got your little pencil icon in the top right there. You click on that and it creates a new email.
But for the purposes of this video, I'm gonna open it up a little bit wider. Those of you with a wider screen phone, or with maybe using it on an Android tablet, you might see a little bit more information like this. But you got new message up there at the top. Of course, you click that and it opens up a brand new message. New message from template.
There's all kinds of templates in here. You can get standard templates, other templates, ARC, California State, Canadian forms, FEMA, FMRE, general forms on what's in there, customizable form, GPS position report, field situation report, that kind of thing. I've not really used in any of the templates in here, don't really know. I mean, you would use them in an InCom situation, sure, but I haven't really done any of that. Maybe it's something I can dive into in another video. I'm not
going to really talk about that today. If we click the three that the little Hamburger menu at the top right the three dots, you get messages, setting sessions, logs, contact other, and about and if you click on other right there, that is where you get several other things in here. And we can do a position report. If I do a position report, it's going to come up with my I do a weather report too, it's going
to come up with a position report. It's gonna come up with my GPS coordinates, my grid square, my six digit maidenhead grid square, and some other information about where I am and the cool thing I have found recently. This is something that Mike Kate, m r and D showed me through Windleak Express on the Windows app. But then I got much more detailed and clear information from
km fo ack at him kah about it. You can spot yourself on the wind link map up through this position report, and you can do this through wind link Express or radio mail or any of them, and you can send a short message and then it comes up on winlink dot org. You go into positions and you go to and you can search by call sign or you can just kind of see all the positions at once. You can mouse over them and see whateveryone is doing,
and the common factor. The common practice is to put green, yellow, or red in front of your message. So like last week, I said green, hemcas poda event. Green means everything's good, Yellow means I've got a problem, but I can probably fix it myself stand by, and red means send help now. So it can be a very good, albeit slow way to send out help requests through wind link email if you're out in the woods and can send acause you
can send win link over HF. So you're like, well, if you're out the woods out of cell coverage, then you're probably not gonna have a packet modem near you for your two meter repeater for your two meter radio. And that's true. But you can send wind link over twenty meters and forty meters and eighty meters to several states or countries away as well, so there's a way around that a little bit more range than APRS. So
I might try to send I wonder what weather. I've never actually done this weather report yet update via internet, So I'm told that if you update throughse reports via the message that it takes a long time and it uses a lot of bandwidth on the node you're connecting to. So generally speaking, we want to update that via internet if you're updating the nodes you're connected to or anything like that. So today is February thirteenth, and that's that, and then we can yeap update via message update. So
it's just telling me the weather where I'm at. It doesn't really have an option here to post to outback box. But if I were to go back and go to position report here, it would give me the position report. You could check your grid square to make sure it was correct, and you would have an option at the bottom to post to outbox. So I might have to I haven't tinkered with this weather thing. I might tinker
with that later. But that is the menu at the top left and then at our top right rather and then at the bottom right, we can click on the three dots there and you can you can select a message over here and you can forward it, delete it, mark on red Tag's archive, export, copy to clipboard, that kind of thing. Typical stuff. You can you can send an acknowledgment. At the bottom there you can reply, or you can reply to all. Generally speaking that reply to all.
I've found that unless you're on a group blast. The reply to all is not really used that much, but you know, if you're on a group email, you can email to a lot of people and then reply to all would be applicable. So and then of course you've got your outbox at the bottom left there, and that's just telling you where you are. If you go to I'm sorry inbox at the bottom left there, and if you go to scent, it's gonna say scent at the bottom left. If you go to out box, it's going
to make sure there's nothing in there. So let's type up a email real quick, and I'm going to send it to a couple of people that I know. And if you want to send me a win link email, send me a win Link email at case five h t w'd be at winlink dot org. You can send it from your wind link account, or you can send it from a regular Gmail or inner account, Yahoo or whatever. And I'm told that maybe maybe I'll try to tinker with this a little bit, because I haven't actually tried
this myself. But if you put in the subject line, if you put forward slash forward slash wl two k, it will apparently bypass the spam filters that exist in wind Link and will allow your internet message to come through, so you can email someone from your Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo address or your work email address. If you put forward slash forward slash wl two k in front at the front of the subject line in your message and just send it to case five hwb at winlink
dot org. See if it works. Somebody try that and see if it works now. If you're interested in starting wind link or getting into win link email, you don't have a Ham radio license yet, I highly recommend going to ham radioprep dot com using the coupon code of Jason twenty to save twenty percent on all of their courses. Twenty percent off the price of all of their courses.
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for Sporting this channel. All right, So I'm going to write an email, and I'm gonna write a new message, and I'm just gonna I'm gonna send uh I'm gonna send Jason a message cam for ack. He told me at Hamcash that he checks his wind Link email just about every day. So I'm not gonna tell you guys to spamcamfo ack. I'm asking you to send me an email, send me a win Link mail, because I send an email out to my email blast the other day and I've probably got about almost two dozen of you that
have sent me a wind Link email from that. But uh so send me a message. But if you want to send Jason a message, you know he does check it every day. I'm just gonna say that out loud right there. Okay, So, uh let's put subject here of making a video about wode. There we go. Hey, just wanted to demonstrate how to type and post a win Link email. And now after I'm done with that seventy three whatever I want to put there, I click on post to outbox there at the bottom, and it posts
it to my outbox message but has been posted your outbox. Now, if we go here to the top left we'll see one message. We'll see a one next to outbox that means it's waiting to be sent. I'm gonna do one more for good measure. Now, all of these messages in
here you can see. At the time of this recording, I've gotten messages from KD seven s c C KK five g x f k E four d h x intwo z K eighty four fm A F four f A k Q four qg q c j KK seven A N three x g KD five U j L my buddy Roger, who's involved in part of the win link gate way we're gonna use today K five vxx KO four I L y in four lpk k I five r r H. There's several from KM four a CK and then five s KT. That was last week when we were at ham khon Katam Murdie right there.
So let's let's send one to Mike, because why not. Right, Mike's actually been pretty good. He's been actually interested in win link and been sending win Link emails a lot recently, win Link sending you a message from my phone using wood. There we go and post to outbox. Now we now we go and look and the outbox is got a two next to it. Okay, so now we've got two messages waiting to send. We have no idea how many
messages are waiting to come in. I know, for fact, at zero because I just checked my win Link email messages. I should have waited. But we'll see what happens with that. Maybe someone replied to those one of those messages I just sent. Now we click on the the three dots at the top right of the corner, top right of the screen. Rather okay, and we go. We click onions. Now these sessions. That's a tailnet session there in the middle. If you don't have a node a gateway near you,
you can cheat and use telnet. Okay, N five two N four bu T in Orlando. The top one there, that's the one that's closest to himcasion. It's very easy to get into with a with a taller antenna. You can't really make it with a rubber duck, at least not from when we were camped. But I set up my edfong J poll and the antenna ed fong J
pole antenna in the parking lot. It worked fine. This one down here is k E fiven at South lake, and again all of these are packet nodes, so I highlight the one that I want to use, okay, and that's we're gonna use that one. So I'm gonna keep that one for next year, hopefully I has to have this phone. And then we're gonna click on start down at the bottom here, and we're gonna see running unconnected. You might hear the radio in the background running like that.
Now it's gonna send messages. Sending messages one okay, and that was it, so I don't think anything came in. You'll see the out box is clear. We're all good there. We've sent three email no two emails, and we didn't receive any emails. But if we would have received emails, they would be highlighted here in that purple color, similar
to how everything right there is highlighted. That means I haven't read the message since it went into the scent box, so they're highlighted down here on the bottom in that purple color. So if I had any new emails in my inbox right now, they would be highlighted as well. But that's just kind of a quick rundown of wode wind link over Android is what WOADE stands for again. It is a free application in the Google Place Tour.
I have used it on my r Finder tablet. I've used it on this is my Samsung Galaxy z fold four and I used it on the B one a long time ago, my r Finder B one a long time ago as well. So it works on a variety of Android platforms. Works really well. I've been really enjoying win Link. I'm actually going to take a road trip next week at the time of this recording. By the time you watch this video, I'll probably be I'll either be on the road or maybe I might be back
and I might not be back. I don't know, but I'm gonna send position reports along the way just because I think it's a cool thing to do. It's kind of something new that I that I came up with to do. So send me a win link email KC five hwbtwhenlink dot org. Send it to me from your wind link account if you can, or send me an email from your Gmail or y'ahoo or wherever that is by putting that signifier at the front of the subject line, and I will respond to you. I've been really enjoying
win link lately. I've been I've I want to build my own gateway, which we're going to do a live stream about soon. I want to do a deeper dive into win Link Express, RMS Express win Link Express on a Windows box because it's got a lot lot more features than these apps do on the phones. So more to come on that later. Tell me what you'd like to know and see about whin link in the description blow. Thanks for watching.