[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Very, very, few hams have the slightest interest in e-mail over ham > radio. The great majority do not even want it!
You got that right. Right now Pactor is merely a low-budget way for RVers and boaters to send email over the ham bands. I see no benefit whatever to our hobby for people doing that and it is not traditional ham radio. One can reasonably speculate that the content of at least some of these emails is not in accord with Part 97, i.e. may constitute business use of the ham bands. To make matters worse, of course, these transmissions are unattended, do not listen before transmitting, and the result is that the band pollution is made much worse than it would otherwise be. de Roger W6VZV
