--- In [email protected], "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that sending messages and relaying messages by amateur radio was ever ment to restrict the content to amateur radio only subject matter. In fact, if you look at the ARL numbers, you will find that most of them are NOT related to amateur radio subject matter. > > 73, > > Walt/K5YFW >
Walt I have to agree. While stationed in the military, I did a lot of phone patches/radiograms thru hams while in the states and had nothing to due with ham radio, and of course used mars when overseas. If I remember right you can even order pizza thru your local 2 meter repeater phone patch, but you can not due business over the radio. My main problem with WinLink is that it comes on without knowing if a QSO is in progress on the freq and as others have stated, I have heard them from 14.110 down to 14.070. How much room do they need? Now days with sat's internet and cellphone, if you have enough money to buy a ship to go out into the ocean, how much more to setup a sat cellphone/internet account for surfing the net? Kurt K8YZK
