[GA ARES] More on the Last Mile

[John Kraus KC4ZGQ]

If these  examples do not fit the Wikipedia description of Last Mile 
connectivity then  the term has no meaning.

I have deliberate selected some of these links going back as far as 1998 to 
demonstrate that Winlink is not a new program or idea.  It is a complete 
system that was designed  to do one basic task and do it very well. That 
task was to provide virtually global Last Mile connectivity for email 
including attachments.

Winlink does this every day whether the Last Mile is down the street or 
more than 9000 miles from Antarctica to 
Tennessee  http://www.kc4zgq.com/wordpress/archives/61

http://winlink.org/news/november_22.htm

http://www.oceannavigator.com/articles/260/

http://winlink.org/News/Conversation.htm

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/09/26/100/?nc=1

In the last story note that Winlink was used very effectively in parallel 
with many of the other technologies that have been mentioned recently.

Look at the real time system stats.

40,000 +  messages on HF alone and counting.

http://winlink.org/status/CmsTraffic.aspx

73 de John Kraus KC4ZGQ
Georgia DEC for Digital Communications
DIGITAL_COMMS_GA at COX.NET