OK, I did it. No, I have not become a Pactor III BBS but I have set up a 24/7 WINMOR Winlink 2000 server station.... with busy detect active at the server end preventing my response to a connect request if the frequency is busy.. This station will use 500 Hz Winmor. The first couple of stations connecting to the server (K3UK-5) all passed traffic to the CMS server OK. I need to study frequencies more and make sure that I eventually choose frequencies that make sense . During the next few days I will test on
0500 to 1400 on USB 3584.5 (dial 3583). 1400-1600 USB 7084.8 (dial 7083.3) 1600-0100 USB 28125 dial 2100-0500 USB 7084.8 (dial 7083.3) 10M is NOT a mistake. There are no servers on 10M and I hope to test this out some more. I may also try 6M. To use the server, you need RMS express software, which is free. You also need a soundcard (and radio!) I've tried PSKmail , ALE400, and 300 baud packet Pbbs over the past few months. PSKMAIL is VERY good but the Linux requirement for the server operations was more than i was willing to mess around with. So, I will give the WINMOR winlink server a try for the next 90 days and then evaluate how utilized it is. This will also give me a great opportunity to fully study the busy detect features that appear to work quite well at the moment.
