No one I know uses the HAL product, but it appears from their web information that they have several software packages that can provide peer to peer mail, chat, and gateway to the internet. Since the cost is prohibitive for casual amateur use, it is unlikely that you will find others to connect with. Also, I did not find Clover II to be all that good for weak signals and Clover 2000 is doubling the number of tones, using a much wider footprint, and doubling the speed of the tones.
If you needed an automated e-mail connection, the Winlink 2000 system would be the only practical one for right now, with PSKmail as an alternative since it looks like a full functioning Windows system is being developed in addition to the current Linux version. Unlike Winlink 2000, PSKmail has additional peer to peer features and avoids the overly centralized nature of Winlink 2000 for HF server ad hoc capabilities. If PSKmail were to eventually adopt the WINMOR protocol or some other more robust protocol that could adjust for conditions, it could prove to be a very good solution to handling e-mail as well as local peer to peer connections. We are not quite there yet with the kinds of systems that I would like to see, but we are making some significant progress. 73, Rick, KV9U scottfike71 wrote: > So, from what you are saying, it sounds to me like with a CLOVER 2000 setup > there needs to be two users with the same HAL modem and same HAL e-mail > software, and only then they can pass e-mail back and forth to each other > only and not to and from the internet? > > With such a setup, can one user forward an e-mail from his buddy onto the > internet some way? > >
