What if you want to do Winlink with no
internet whatsoever?
Now you can accept incoming peer-to-peer
connection from other
station.
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Here we have two radios
and two iPhone running Radio
Mail, and KH6NS on the right is going to
be the listening station. So we tap the
antenna,
and then we go into the Listen tab.
Here we can change various parameter for
the session.
We can select the frequency, the mode,
the baud rate,
and in packet we can also have a
identification beacon
sent as a AX.25 frame to ID your
station and let, you know,
other people know that we are on the air
and can listen. Before we hit Start,
let's select the
correct radio.
In Radio Mail 2.0 you can select multiple
device
per session, so you just tap the name
and you can select it.
And then we hit Start,
and the radio on the right is switching
frequency,
and now it's listening for incoming
connections.
Now let's go ahead
and compose a message for our station.
And with peer-to-peer you have to make
sure the message is addressed to the
exact call sign of the station that's
listening, in
this case KH6NS.
And we're gonna go ahead
and type a message.
And then the important part also
is to make sure
that we mark the message as peer-to-peer
delivery. So you just tap the CC and From,
uh, line
on the message. It will expand
and will reveal
the toggle for P2P. So that toggle
indicates to Radio Mail
that this message should only be
delivered when you have a radio connection
to the
particular recipient,
and also will, um,
disallow things like internet email
address because you can't route it to the
internet.
So now we go ahead and send this email.
If you notice here, the Send Now option
is grayed out because that's
an internet feature.
You're not gonna be able to send it
that way.
All you can do is Hold For Radio,
and this will put the message
in the outbox waiting for radio session to
be
initiated.
The message is now in the outbox,
and we can look at it.
You can see the
identification that shows it's radio
and P2P only,
and that means that
that message won't be sent until we
connect to a KH6NS station. Before you
can connect to a peer-to-peer station,
you have to make sure it exists,
so you can
go into the directory
and add a custom station, enter the
information, and save it there.
Uh, in my case, I did it already,
so I will find
KH6NS in my favorite already.
So I can just go and select it.
Now I can initiate a connection, but
before I do that,
let's select the device
that I want to use to connect to my
radio, the BB Link in this case.
I can just hit Connect,
and the radio on the left
is going to change frequency to match my
destination station,
and it's going to start initiating a
connection.
And on the right-hand side you can see the
session as
it's being received on the peer-to-peer
listening
station, and the email is being exchanged.
And other than that,
it's behaves like a regular session.
One end sends, the other one receives,
and the session
terminates.
There you have it, a peer-to-peer session.
They are not very different than session
you do against a
gateway. There are, uh,
really only the few limitation
are on the type of message you can compose
and the type of recipient you
can have in the message. So remember,
when you compose your message,
you want to make sure you flag it as
peer-to-peer if you intend to send it that
way.
This way the application will know to hold
it back, and
also it can help you validate
that you have the right email
address that can be delivered.
In this case, I'm going to try to
add a internet email address that
normally would be fine on a Winlink
message, but if I'm
going to mark this message as
peer-to-peer, it's going to
tell me that you can't do that
and to make sure that you only have
recipient that can be, um, um,
reached with the,
with the session you're going to initiate.
Let's now stop our listening station
and take a look at the
message we just received. So we hit Stop.
It will restore the radio and disconnect,
and now we
can take a look at our inbox,
and here's the message that we just sent.
No gateway, no internet,
just a message between two
stations. Mahalo and seventy-three.