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* If you will be accessing a gateway when gateways are unlikely to have Internet Access you need to indicate that your message is has a type of "Post Office mode" so that it stays at the gateway rather be routed to a Command Message Survey in the Internet "cloud". To do so, any message they send to the W7ECC gateway must be Post Office type. During a Citywide Deployment Exercise or after an Cascadia earthquake or disaster when Internet acccess is compromised you need to assure that you either mark each message as as "Post Office Message" or change their default message type to "Post Office". | * If you will be accessing a gateway when gateways are unlikely to have Internet Access you need to indicate that your message is has a type of "Post Office mode" so that it stays at the gateway rather be routed to a Command Message Survey in the Internet "cloud". To do so, any message they send to the W7ECC gateway must be Post Office type. During a Citywide Deployment Exercise or after an Cascadia earthquake or disaster when Internet acccess is compromised you need to assure that you either mark each message as as "Post Office Message" or change their default message type to "Post Office". | ||
** Selecting the Post Office Message type. [[File:Post Office Message.png]] | ** Selecting the Post Office Message type. [[File:Post Office Message.png]] | ||
** | ** Specifying that messages should default Post Office type. [[File:Set message type default.png]] [[File:Selecting Post Office.png]] | ||
* 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. | * 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 To field of the Winlink message to W7ECC. | * Set To field of the Winlink message to W7ECC. | ||
