Off-Grid Email with any Radio

If all you have is a radio with a mic and speaker jack, a Digirig Lite and RadioMail will turn your iPhone into a packet station. [whimsical music] The Digirig Lite audio interface is plug-and-play. You just plug it on one side on into the radio and the other side, the USB-C connector plugs directly into your iPhone or iPad. RadioMail will detect it automatically. Once it's plugged in, you'll see it under the Device section. Just tap the entry, and you'll get, uh, more settings that you can control, and particularly you will get the audio monitor, so you can make sure you have the proper volume. It's very important to adjust that volume. It's very important to make sure the squelch is fully open on the radio. And you can also check the audio out. You start the test, and the Digirig PTT light comes on, and that means you're good to transmit. Now, to start a connection, tap the antenna icon. It will open the connection window. Here you can select the station you're trying to connect by tapping the call sign. It will open the selection dialog. Here I'm in my Favorites. I will select VHF Packet, the W6AZT test station. In here you notice it says Packet Modem Digirig Lite in manual mode. That means you have to make sure the radio frequency is set to the station you're trying to reach. It doesn't do CAT control for you in this setup. Now you can just hit Connect, and the radio will try to do a connection with the remote station. And you can see PTT going on in the Digirig itself. The radio is keying. Everything looks good. We're getting information back from the RMS gateway. And let's see if we have some mail pending for us. [radio beeping] Looks like we had a incoming message. It's being retrieved. [radio beeping] And now we're closing the connection, and we're done. We got the email. There you have it. If your radio has a mic and speaker jack, it can do Winlink. All you need is a Digirig Lite and RadioMail. Mahalo and seventy-three.