Amen! There are a lot of Yachtsmen/women who got their license for one reason and one reason alone. To keep from paying for the Sail Mail subscription. it amounts to $250/yr or about $21/month uses marine frequencies and marine type accepted equipment and the ubiquitous/infamous SCS Pactor III modem.
On 04/29/2012 07:19 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: >> However that said, Pactor III is a godsend for us hams that are >> cruising on our boats....here in the south pacific, I can send/rec >> email, and get all kinds of weather charts/info to make my sailing >> safer. Pactor III may not be for you, but it is for me > And commercial or quasi-commercial traffic should be conducted on > commercial frequencies not on top of amateur users whenever the damn > PACTOR-bots decide to start transmitting. > > As one of the twelve who were on the ARRL committee that formulated > the automatic and semi-automatic control concepts nearly 30 years ago, > allowing *any* form of automatic control is one of the biggest mistakes > in nearly 100 years of amateur radio - right up with phone patches in > the amateur service. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
