Ad Hoc Committee on ARES Communications (ARESCOM)
January 2004
Progress Report Number 1
Recommendation -- After a review of the Local and Section ARES, RACES and national NTS and NTSD requirements for public service, and desiring to provide a means of rapidly moving high volumes of radio email traffic nationally, the committee judges that the Winlink 2000 system (WL2K) is the most feasible platform for this purpose when added to existing resources or deployed for the first time.
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