PSKMail is reaching many of the LinLink goals. The LinLink project is intended to provide a strategy for fielding long range data communications systems in times of emergency.
It is an effort to provide better services than the use of proprietary, closed system such as WinLink2000 with Pactor and the like. The idea is NOT to create a WinLink look alike, but an alternative solution(s) to the same basic requirements of sending and receiving digital messages or E-Mail on HF using only a computer's soundcard as the modem with open source software...Interfacing with the Internet and/or other HF stations to relay/forward messages and E-Mail to the intended recipient be they connected to the Internet of on HF. A total messaging/E-Mail system that additionally would need a broadcast mode (QST Mode) where robust, error free data may need to be sent to a number of stations at the same time. Specifically referencing weather alerts and the like or where information needs to be sent to a large number of stations and individual responses are not required. Again a QST type message. Distances involved would start where ground waves end and sky waves begin and continue on from 30 km to 2,000 or 3,000 KM for NVIS paths primarily on 80 and 40 meters and then on lower angle skywave paths on 30, 20 meters and above. Have the ability to easily interface with existing TCP/IP systems is desirable. Currently PSKMail meets many of the design criteria and is the system to watch evolve into a mature messaging/E-Mail system. You can subscribe to the LinLink E-Mail list at: http://www.wetnet.net/mailman/listinfo/linlink/ 73, Walt/K5YFW
