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Note: If the message you are transcribing does not have approval information, put “...” in the corresponding fields of the Winlink Form so it allows you to submit it.  
Note: If the message you are transcribing does not have approval information, put “...” in the corresponding fields of the Winlink Form so it allows you to submit it.  


After you have filled out the template, clicked on Submit and closed the browser window, you will see the content of the 213 in the body of a Winlink message.  Please
After you have filled out the template, clicked on Submit and closed the browser window, you will see the content of the 213 in the body of a Winlink message.   


* Update the From field by clicking on the the "V" shape next to your FCC call sign and selecting your region's tactical address. If no tactical address is shown, see the section above regarding enabling a tactical address.  
* If you will be accessing a gateway when gateways are unlikely to have access to the Internet, you need to indicate that your message should have the "Post Office" type so that it stays at the gateway rather than being routed to a Command Message Survey in the Internet "cloud".  This will allow it to accessed by other Winlink Express clients by accessing the same gateway. To restrict message to a particular gateway, any message they send must have the Post Office type. During a Citywide Deployment Exercise or after a Cascadia earthquake or disaster when Internet acccess is compromised, you need to assure that you either mark each message as a "Post Office Message" or change the default message type to "Post Office".
* Set To field of the Winlink message to W7ECC.
** Selecting the Post Office Message type for a particular message.
 
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** Specifying that messages should default to Post Office type.
 
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* Regardless of the message type, you should
** Update the From field by clicking on the the "V" shape next to your FCC call sign and selecting your region's tactical address. If no tactical address is shown, see the section above regarding enabling a tactical address.
** Set the To field of the Winlink message to W7ECC.


=== Contacting EOC When You Have Emergency Traffic ===
=== Contacting EOC When You Have Emergency Traffic ===
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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.
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 “[[Checklists for Winlink Tasks#Steps for Updating a Table of Available Gateways|Steps for Updating a Table of Available Gateways]]” in [[Checklists for Winlink Tasks]].
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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. Click "Connect to this server" to continue. Depending on your windows settings, it's possible that this pop-up window will covered by other windows and you'll have minimize the other windows to see it.  Here's a screenshot showing the pop-up.
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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.


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