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→‎Request Access to the Gateway: Updated SSID of VARA experimental gateway. Simplified instructions on using regular email to send a message to a Winlink addressed.
(→‎Preparing Your Traffic and Notifying ECC: Removed information about Winlink codes for precedence. Added information on selecting tactical address in From field.)
(→‎Request Access to the Gateway: Updated SSID of VARA experimental gateway. Simplified instructions on using regular email to send a message to a Winlink addressed.)
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=== Transmitting and Receiving Traffic Using a Gateway ===
=== Transmitting and Receiving Traffic Using a Gateway ===
 
After listening to the gateway frequency until it appears to no longer be busy, open and start a Packet Winlink or VARA FM Winlink session. If the exercise instructions indicate that a pair of experimental gateways have been set up at Portland Emergency Coordination Center, use one of the following gateways. Otherwise choose any gateway after asking Winlink Express to update its table of gateways.  See “Steps for Updating a Table of Available Gateways” in Checklists for Winlink Tasks.
==== Request Access to the Gateway ====
Before accessing one of the ECC gateways, you should contact Tactical Net on MC-8 informing it of these messages.  Report the messages you have ready to transmit by Winlink by precedence level. Tactical Net may
 
* give you immediate access to the Winlink gateway to transmit your traffic; or
* tell you that Command Net will call you back on your frequency to give you time on the Winlink gateway to transmit them by Winlink.
 
Note: When you receive permission to use the gateway you may be told to transmit only your messages with the highest of precedence if you have messages of more than one precedence. If possible, place only the messages of that precedence in your Outbox before opening a Packet or VARA session. Messages with lower precedence can be placed in Winlink Express folders with appropriate names.
 
==== Transmit Traffic to and Receive Traffic from a Gateway ====
Once you have received permission to use the gateway, open and start a Packet Winlink or VARA FM Winlink session. If the exercise instructions indicate that a pair of experimental gateways have been set up at Portland Emergency Coordination Center, use one of the following gateways. Otherwise choose any gateway after asking Winlink Express to update its table of gateways.  See “Steps for Updating a Table of Available Gateways” in Checklists for Winlink Tasks.
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{| class="wikitable"
|Function
|Function
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|Experimental Packet Gateway
|Experimental Packet Gateway
|KI7QIB-12
|KI7QIB-12
|145.010 (use VFO mode)
|145.010 (use VFO mode or channel 488 in the MCARES 2023 Standard Template)
|-
|-
|Experimental VARA Gateway
|Experimental VARA Gateway
|KI7QIB-13
|KI7QIB-12
|145.010 (use VFO mode)
|145.010 (use VFO mode or channel 488 in the MCARES 2023 Standard Template)
|}
|}
When you access a gateway you may receive a warning message "The server you are connected to does not currently have an Internet connection.  Do you want to connect to this server?" This will occur if there is an Internet outage or we are simulating one.  Please confirm that you want to proceed.
When you access a gateway you may receive a warning message "The server you are connected to does not currently have an Internet connection.  Do you want to connect to this server?" This will occur if there is an Internet outage or we are simulating one.  Please confirm that you want to proceed.
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# Use another gateway if you are relatively certain that the gateways can access the Internet to exchange mail with the Common Message Servers.  
# Use another gateway if you are relatively certain that the gateways can access the Internet to exchange mail with the Common Message Servers.  
# If you have Internet access, use Telnet Winlink.
# If you have Internet access, use Telnet Winlink.
# Transmit by regular email.  For instance, PDXECCMSGC-1@winlink.org.  Put one of the following at the beginning of the subject line to indicate the precedence of the message and to facilitate obtaining “white list” status for your message:
# Transmit by regular email.  For instance, PDXECCMSGC-1@winlink.org.  Put the following at the begging of the subject to facilitate obtaining “white list” status for your message: //WL2K
## For Emergency messages use //WL2K Z/
## For Priority messages use //WL2K P/
## For Health & Welfare or Routine use //WL2K R/
# Hand deliver if that’s possible.
# Hand deliver if that’s possible.


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