After sending Word and Excel files to Bill W1GTT via RF on the W1SP-8 (Bridgeport) Gateway and inquiring about the slowness of sending a message (as compared to high speed internet), Bill wrote back with this.

Douglas,
Sending Word and Excel docs will take considerable time because of the bloat in each.

Best to send as a plain text doc if possible.
- I converted your word doc to plain text. Should download rather quickly.

As I tell others, it may be slow to send the Word doc etc thru WL2K nodes, but if the Internet is out at a local EOC, the message still can be sent even though it takes some time to do so.

Also, get used to using Qforms..

Thanks for the test of Bridgeport.

73 Bill, W1GTT CT ASEC