WINMOR Takes Over From Slow Pactor Modes

The official numbers show the trend. The WINMOR soundcard HF protocol has not emerged from Beta testing, yet traffic statistics for April show that Pactor I and II use has dropped dramatically while WINMOR use takes up the slack. Nothing beats PIII, and it continues to be the most popular mode for serious long-range communicators using Winlink 2000.

• HF Traffic
  Pactor I Connections 9
  Pactor II Connections 4,226
  Pactor III Connections 32,772
  WINMOR 500 Connections 5,421
  WINMOR 1600 Connections 7,803
  Total Connections 50,231
  Total HF Messages Received 34,424
  Total HF Messages Sent 43,244

The new user client software, RMS Express, in which the WINMOR protocol is embedded, is being adopted quickly for regular use, even though it also has not made it out of Beta test. It also supports Pactor III, packet and online telnet connections.

Packet radio, mostly local EmComm training traffic, makes up about 10% of the total Winlink 2000 traffic.

• Packet Traffic
  Total Messages Received 5,925
  Total Messages Sent 7,260

The APRS system finds utility as a way to send email in a pinch.

• APRS Traffic
  Total Messages Received 0
  Total Messages Sent 62

And Webmail, which is supposed to be a convenience for radio email users to access their Winlink email when away from their radio station, has done an about face, and is now used more to send than to receive messages. We suspect some EmComm users are forgetting that reliance on the convenience of the internet can degrade one's ability to perform using their radio stations when needed during an emergency!

• WebMail Traffic
  Total Messages Received 914
  Total Messages Sent 3,413

The total message traffic always seems to hover around 100,000 messages per month.

• Total System Message Traffic 95,242

7520 registered WL2K users created all the above traffic during April. There are 13,699 current registered users in the USA, and 5500 outside the USA. There are 3611 MARS/agency users of the system as well.

For an up-to-the-minute snapshot of WL2K system traffic, see the system traffic report page.