EmComm -- Emergency Communications

The application motivating all recent development activity on the Winlink 2000 system is emergency communications. The WL2K system stays well-oiled by handling many thousands of casual and health-and-welfare messages from users at sea and far-away places through our public stations. Behind the scenes, there are additional stations--EmComm stations--that exist to be ready when an emergency event occurs. These stations provide the WL2K system with additional capacity and redundancy to ensure e-mail resources remain available when a communications emergency shuts down or limits the capacity of normal wireless and wireline systems.

The WL2K network topology and software tools allow us to make a powerful promise to served agencies and NGOs: We give you e-mail, using your familiar and existing e-mail software, user-to-user without intermediaries, across the country, or around the world, from inside a disaster area, and without the Internet or wireless or wireline networks.

Many organizations and government agencies use WL2K for emergency communications--not only in the USA but worldwide. They maintain semi-private stations and local networks of radio stations on which their members train and use for local, regional, national and international emergencies. Prominent among these organizations are the Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS), the Salvation Army, the Baptist Relief Organization, the UK Cadet Forces, and hundreds of Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) units.

Should your EmComm or Public Safety organization need reliable radio e-mail for emergencies, contact us immediately!