Aloha and welcome. I'm WH6AZ. I'm here to bring you a high signal inside about
 radio mail, the win link application I created. Let's get to it. Today's topic
 how to automatically add location to your messages. This functionality was
 first introduced in Winning Express about a year ago and just recently been
 added to radio mail. It's a powerful addition where you can essentially stash
 your latitude and longitude coordinates in your message header. This allows the
 recipient to map any incoming messages. Why is this important? Well during
 emergencies people might send urgent messages and they forget to include
 their location or they might enter it incorrectly and having automatic
 automatic location data is a huge help for incident management as it allows
 them
 to map every report that is coming in. With that functionality location can now
 be added to any messages not just limited to forms that have a dedicated
 location field. So let's dive in and see how it works. By default the location
 is
 turn off so let's switch it on. So we go into settings include location and
 turn
 it on. Now I'm gonna go ahead and compose a message. I'm gonna send it to my
 friend
 more Cooney and I'm just gonna post it here and send it.
 Alright now let's switch over to Winning Express and see what it looks like on
 the
 receiving end. Most likely Yo-Yo-C when you're running an incident is going to
 run a version of Winning Express. Has you know great mapping capabilities and
 whenever to see where the messages are coming from. So let's see how that looks
 like. I'm gonna go ahead and open a session here, retrieve my email and here
 we go. Here's the message we received. First thing you can notice here is the
 location header has been added. If you'll notice it says GPS because that's the
 device that was used to actually place the data in the header. There could be
 other things there. We'll get to that in a minute. Okay now let's see what it
 looks like on the map. I'm gonna go and click the map icon here and select from
 messages. You can select other things here if you have forms that have location
 information that's where you would select but in this case we're gonna ask
 for any message that came in with the form with the location data. And I'm
 gonna
 display it on Google Map. And here you see two things on the map. The green pin
 represents your current location here. In this case this simulated WinLink
 Express user because it's running Windows. It's in Redmont by Microsoft and the
 blue is the message we sent from the iPhone which is running iOS from Apple
 and it's in Cupertino. And you can hover the pin here and you can actually see
 the message sender a bit of information as well as the subject. So now let's
 see
 let's go ahead and reply and we'll see what the location information looks like
 on the other side. So I'm going to reply to this message here. I'm gonna say
 good
 to hear from you and send it back.
 Exchange the session and it sends. So now I can jump here I will connect again
 looks like the message has not come through yet. So let's give it a few
 seconds. Let's try again. There you go I received the response. Okay and so
 here
 you'll notice next to the call sign of the sender there is a little icon and in
 this case around a circle icon represent GPS coordinates. If it's blue it means
 that they were actually derived straight from a GPS device and it's the most
 accurate coordinate you can get. If it's gray it means it was actually manually
 entered and let it be longitude so they could be a mistake or they could be
 kind of a rounding error so it potentially is less precise and this
 alerts you to the fact. So let's go tap on this and now actually see the
 location
 of the winning express user or Coney here and just place a pin I can see the
 coordinates and I can you know ask for direction or do other things this is
 just a regular map application from iOS. So you can also change how the
 location
 is determined in radio mail by default is using your GPS location but you can
 switch that off and provide a grid square instead so let's try that. I'm
 gonna go in settings location I will turn automatic and let's enter a grid
 square here somewhere in Hawaii. Now I'll go and create another message and I'm
 just gonna put it in the odd box I won't send it but if you actually see it you
 can see all the going messages and they will behave the same way as if you
 receive
 it. So here are the call sign of the sender and you'll see the icon now is
 actually gray and it's a square and this represent a grid square information
 which means that it will only provide you a neighborhood level or precision so
 when you bring it up on the map the location the coordinate will center in
 the square and this case looks like I actually put myself in the ocean so that
 was probably not a valid square but this basically tells you the general
 vicinity but you can't rely on it to a looping point that sender. That's it for
 today I hope you find this feature as powerful as I do and now go outside get
 on the air until next time 73 and aloha