Yes, your winlink password must be added into D-Rats.??Go to Preferences and drop down to the Messages tab and you will see the location where you put in your password on a line that is about at the center of the page.??In order to do anything in Winlink now, your software has to log onto their system with your user name (callsign) and your password.??
Use "WL2K:” before the address you are sending the message to and //WL2K on the subject line before the Subject and it should go out.??Another issue you might run into is you must have kept the account active.??If you have not used Winlink in over a year, it is possible that your callsign was purged from the system.??This even happened to the National Hurricane Center WX4NHC a few years back.??And finally, Winlink is only working in D-rats by Telnet at this time, so messages will not go out if you do not have an Internet connection.??I am not sure if you can use the Send Via command to try to send it through another station that still has its Internet working.??If the Internet goes down, as it often does during the many hurricanes we get down here in Louisiana, we are always prepared to send the messages over the air via either Packet or HF using another radio system and our EOC’s are so equipped.
Glen Strecker