{"id":4824,"date":"2020-08-02T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2020-08-04T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:07:16","slug":"itu-and-iaru-r2-sponsor-winlink-tutorial-for-new-dominica-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/itu-and-iaru-r2-sponsor-winlink-tutorial-for-new-dominica-node\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">R2<\/span> sponsor Winlink tutorial for new Dominica node"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, July 31, 2020, a&nbsp;video conference tutorial on Winlink (<span class=\"caps\">WL2K<\/span>), sponsored by the <span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span>, was presented, aimed at representatives of the telecommunications authority, radio amateurs (<span class=\"caps\">DARCI<\/span>) and other disaster response organizations from Dominica, following the installation of the <span class=\"caps\">RMS<\/span> Winlink node <span class=\"caps\">J73WIN<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The video conference had 20 attendees, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clement Pierre Louis, <span class=\"caps\">J73CPL<\/span>, President of Dominica Amateur Radio Club Inc (<span class=\"caps\">DARCI<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Bennette Thomas, Director of Telecommunications, Government of Dominica<\/li>\n<li>Sylvester Cadette; <span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span> Program Caribbean Officer (with office based in Barbados)<\/li>\n<li>Rodrigo Robles; <span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span>\u2011D Program Officer in America (with office based in Honduras)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Burton, <span class=\"caps\">XE2<\/span> \/ <span class=\"caps\">N6KZB<\/span>, member of the Winlink Development Group<\/li>\n<li>Cesar Pio Santos, <span class=\"caps\">HR2P<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">EMCOR<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">R2<\/span> Coordinator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The talk was given by Jonathan Remba, <span class=\"caps\">XE1BRX<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span> Winlink Project Expert for the Americas, covering topics related to Winlink network architecture, installation of <span class=\"caps\">RMS<\/span> Express software, and various formats for transmitting messages via e\u2011mail. Also there was a&nbsp;demonstration of transmission and reception of messages via <span class=\"caps\">HF<\/span> radio using the <span class=\"caps\">VARA<\/span> modality incorporated into&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">WL2K<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the video conference, Clement Pierre Louis, <span class=\"caps\">J73CPL<\/span>, thanked Dominica\u2019s telecommunications authorities and <span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span> representatives for the invitation and support given to radio amateurs, and thanked the presenter for the excellent talk&nbsp;given<\/p>\n<p>Cesar Pio Santos, <span class=\"caps\">HR2P<\/span><br> <span class=\"caps\">EMCOR<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">R2<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, July 31, 2020, a&nbsp;video conference tutorial on Winlink (<span class=\"caps\">WL2K<\/span>), sponsored by the <span class=\"caps\">ITU<\/span>, was presented, aimed at representatives of the telecommunications authority, radio amateurs (<span class=\"caps\">DARCI<\/span>) and other disaster response organizations from Dominica, following the installation of the <span class=\"caps\">RMS<\/span> Winlink node <span class=\"caps\">J73WIN<\/span>. The video conference had 20 attendees, including: Clement Pierre Louis, <span class=\"caps\">J73CPL<\/span>, President&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}