I'd try to get airmail 3 from one of the sites, I use jaws and have to use
the jaws curser in one part of it, but that's really the program you want
for winlink. Email me off list and I can try to send it to you, I don't know
how big it is but I don't think it's huge.
----- Original Message -----
From: "pat gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: any u.s. hams on the list
> John I use window-eyes 7.1 windows xp service pack 3 and the other
> programs
> are fldigi and paclink available from the winlink.org website. When I
> tried
> to download the full version of airmail, I got nothing but errors. 73-
> pat
> kk3f
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:29 AM
> Subject: Re: any u.s. hams on the list
>
>
>> airmail is useable,I use it quite a bit, what can't you figure out? If
>> you
>> want to do regular packet, try winpack 6.8 if you have windows XP or
>> older,
>> if vista, I feel for you, outpost is a pretty good one too. I have my
>> packet
>> setup running 24/7 and do a lot of NTS that way with the BBS's, now with
>> outpost used to be with winpack, and I do a lot of winlink with airmail,
>> and
>> by a lot I mean almost daily use, demonstrations at special event
>> stations,
>> a pretty big demo for field day the last couple years though this year we
>> had weather related problems and I didn't get on with it until 3 AM, but
>> anyway, it is manageable. Not sure on the other programs you mentioned.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "pat gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:15 AM
>> Subject: any u.s. hams on the list
>>
>>
>>> We have a simulated emergency test coming up on the 3rd of October. =
>>> I've been wanting to get on winlink either using paclink, airmail or =
>>> fldigi. None of these programs seem to be screen reader friendly at =
>>> least right out of the box. A lot of them tend to be mouse dependent =
>>> and initially what I want to do is be able to deliver traffic into the =
>>> area until I can somehow update my ancient Cantronics Kam whose firmware
>>> =
>>> is version 2.28. I also have echolink available to me but I've not =
>>> configured it yet. 73- pat kk3f
>>
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