Winlink 2000 (WL2K)  RMS User Proficiency Measurement

Goal: To increase the number of Winlink Gateways (RMS) that a WL2K user can access.

Measurement:
To have a Successful Connect (in a legal manner) with as many different RMS stations as possible on as many different Bands as possible.

Successful Connect: In a single Connection, Send a message (minimum 2K compressed) from your Winlink email account to your commercial email account AND Receive
a message (minimum 2K compressed) from your commercial email account to your Winlink email account.

Groups:
1. HF (any protocol, any Band)
2. HF (any protocol, all HF Bands which the RMS scans)
3. VHF/UHF (packet, Direct Connection)
4. VHF/UHF (packet, via a packet Network)

Documentation:  Keep a spreadsheet with the following information:
1. Date
2. Time
3. RMS callsign
4. RMS location (City, State)
5. Band
6. Protocol (pactor 3, ARDOP, etc
7. Notes....Quality of Connection, etc
8.   Group 1: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used
9.   Group 2: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used on all scanned Bands
10. Group 3: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used
11. Group 4: Cumulative number of "RMS successully used
12. Total of Groups 1-4

Reporting:   None required

Awards:  The safisfaction that comes from being able to help others and being "proficient" at a task!

by Don Felgenhauer  K7BFL   December 21, 2018