WL2K

Both keyboard mode and the APRS gateway now allow access with your Winlink password to the CMS using a simple challenge/response protocol. Your password is never sent in the clear over the air.

LOGIN
If secure login is enabled for your account (or, in the future, required). Send any command to initiate login. The CMS will respond with a challenge consisting of three digits who's values represent positions of characters within your password..

[RESPONSE]
This is a six character response to the login challenge. Respond with three password characters corresponding to the positions in the challenge plus three additional characters of your choosing (in any order). Example: Password is ABC123. Login challenge is: 425. You send '1B2AZ5'. ABZ21TY would also be valid since it contains the characters 1, B, and 2.

No password is needed if the secure login account setting is off (check 'My account>Edit' at the Winlink web site). This option will go away once secure login (password validation) becomes mandatory next year.

Keyboard access will continue to accept the PW syntax announced earlier, but that will be disabled in a few weeks. Use the above method instead.

-Lee, K0QED
Winlink Development Team

June 8, 2015--Winlink operators are planning now for Field Day. It's worth points (in several ways), and an excellent way to show off the system to those unfamiliar.

The Yahoo group guys at WL2KEmComm make it a little easier by using a database of participating stations willing to exchange Field Day messages. Add your callsign to the database, and copy it just before the event to have a list of callsigns to exchange messages with. Find the database in the 'Database' area. Look for the 2015 database. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wl2kemcomm/

North American (ARRL) Field Day is on June 27-28 this year.

--The Winlink Development Team

Mexico's leading amateur radio organization, Mexican Federation of Radioexperimentadores (FMRE), an IARU member organization, has affirmed its continued support of Winlink in a letter from the President of the Federation. Winlink is the primary digital communications delivery system for emergencies within Mexico by amateur radio operators.

The FMRE web site

There are four HF gateways that form the core of the Mexican-supported Winlink presence in Mexico. There is more about them in a previous article. Read an enlarged image of the letter by clicking on the letter.