A handheld radio, an iPhone,
and RadioMail.
No sound card, no cables,
no wiring diagram.
Get off-grid email in 30 seconds.
[upbeat music]
Let's start by adding our radio.
Just tap Add Device in
RadioMail,
and then it will start searching for
nearby, uh, devices.
And even if it shows in the list,
make sure you go to the radio and put it
in pairing mode.
Once you're done with that, tap on the
listing entry,
and then it will ask you to confirm the
pairing
request.
Once it's confirmed,
now the device shows in the list.
It's a one-time operation.
You can tap on it and inspect,
uh, various settings. In this case,
packet parameters.
We don't need to really change anything
here, so we can go back,
and now we're ready to connect.
Let's tap the antenna icon to start a
session, and here we gotta select
our destination station.
We can just tap its, uh, call
sign and we will, uh,
open up the best path
prediction by default. Here
are all the station you could connect to
ranked by
score. We'll get into that,
into more detail in further
video. But here,
let's just go to Favorite and we'll select
a station I've entered before. This
is my test station,
W6AZ-10. It's not listed, it's custom,
so I can just select it
and now we're ready to connect.
Now, if you notice,
it shows you your radio,
the UV-Pro with a little
Auto, uh, indicator.
That means the radio is capable of CAT
control. So when I press Connect,
the radio will change
frequency to the destination,
and then when the session is done, it will
restore it. So now the radio
is in KiSTNC mode.
We're starting the session,
connecting to the, um, gateway
and checking to see if there
is any messages, um, available
for us.
Proceeding here with the authentication,
and it looks like, uh,
we don't have anything to send.
Um, but there is a message pending for us.
So
we're retrieving the message here,
and you can follow the log in various
color to
show you which side is sending
or receiving.
And, um,
we're getting the message here very
shortly.
Received it,
and now we're going to finish, uh, the
session. So session is done.
Restoring the radio in its mode.
Now we can dismiss
and go into our inbox
and look at our message.
We get one new message received
and, um, we can just open it, read it.
It has the unread indicator
that will go away.
And let's reply and see
if we can send a response to
KH6NS.
Here, we can just compose the message
or you can also use, uh, voice
dictation if it's easier.
Um, much easier than typing.
And when we are done, uh, composing,
we can just hit the
arrow up on the top right corner,
and it will open up a menu. And we
have two option, we can send now
or we can hold for radio.
Send now will deliver it to the CMS over
the Internet if you have
a connection.
Hold for radio will put it in the outbox
and make sure that will only be sent, uh,
next time you have a radio
connection. So right now,
we did hold for radio.
It shows outbox has one item.
We can look at it and
it shows you a little, um, indicator,
um, rad...
antenna indicator indicates
that it's going to go over
radio. So now let's connect again to
our station.
Same thing, finding the radio,
changing the frequency,
and now we should propose to the RMS, uh,
the message we
just, uh, composed.
[radio beeps]
It's connecting.
[radio beeps] Now we're proposing the
message here that we just composed,
and it's been accepted by the,
the gateway.
[radio beeps]
Now we're sending it,
and we'll just wrap up, uh,
the connection.
[radio beeps]
There you go.
A handheld radio, an iPhone, RadioMail,
and we've been able to send email
while off-grid.
Mahalo and 73.