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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 | After you have completed your ICS 213, click on Submit and close the browser window. You will see the content of the ICSE 213 in the body of a Winlink message. | ||
* 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 you send must have the Post Office type. | * 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. | |||
* 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 you send must have the Post Office type. ''During a Citywide Deployment Exercise or after a Cascadia earthquake or disaster when Internet access is compromised'', you need to mark each message as a "Post Office Message" or change the default message type to "Post Office" so all your subsequent messages will be treated as Post Office Messages. | |||
==== Selecting the Post Office Message type for a particular message. ==== | ==== Selecting the Post Office Message type for a particular message. ==== | ||
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* If you don't specify the Post Office message type your message will be considered a standard Winlink Message. In this cased, if the gateway doesn't have access to the Internet, no warning or error message will appear and your messages will remain in the Outbox. In this case if you want your unsent messages to be handled as Post Office messages, double-click on the messages in the Outbox, change the type to Post Office, and Start your gateway session again. | * If you don't specify the Post Office message type your message will be considered a standard Winlink Message. In this cased, if the gateway doesn't have access to the Internet, no warning or error message will appear and your messages will remain in the Outbox. In this case if you want your unsent messages to be handled as Post Office messages, double-click on the messages in the Outbox, change the type to Post Office, and Start your gateway session again. | ||
=== Contacting EOC When You Have Emergency Traffic === | === Contacting EOC When You Have Emergency Traffic === | ||
