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If you have Health & Welfare or Routine messages you can prepare them in the same way as described above, but do not put them in your Winlink Outbox until EOC has told you that it is taking messages at those precedence. Instead select “Save in Drafts” and wait until it is time to transmit them to move them to your Outbox. | If you have Health & Welfare or Routine messages you can prepare them in the same way as described above, but do not put them in your Winlink Outbox until EOC has told you that it is taking messages at those precedence. Instead select “Save in Drafts” and wait until it is time to transmit them to move them to your Outbox. | ||
=== Preparing Traffic for | === Preparing Traffic for Another Regional Subnet === | ||
If a Team ARO has a net Form 8 that is intended for another team, consider its precedence. | If a Team ARO has a net Form 8 that is intended for another team, consider its precedence. | ||
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Try once or twice to send your message and then stop using the gateway regardless of whether you succeeded so they can be allocated to another subnet control operator. | Try once or twice to send your message and then stop using the gateway regardless of whether you succeeded so they can be allocated to another subnet control operator. | ||
==== What To Do If the EOC Gateway Appears To Be Unavailable. ==== | |||
If you don’t succeed in using one of the experimental gateways, try these alternatives and log which alternative you end up using: | If you don’t succeed in using one of the experimental gateways, try these alternatives and log which alternative you end up using: | ||
# Contact Tactical Net and request voice transmission if you have messages with a precedence Emergency. | # Contact Tactical Net and request voice transmission if you have messages with a precedence of Emergency. | ||
# 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, | # Transmit by regular email. For instance, W77ECC@winlink.org. Put the following at the beginning of the subject to facilitate obtaining “white list” status for your message: //WL2K | ||
# Hand deliver if that’s possible. | # Hand deliver if that’s possible. | ||
