The answer your are looking for is NO.
Technically it is on a store and forward basis but there are much better
systems available for the proffessional user. These days you can get a
satellite telephone and a modem in you laptop and you can have net
access. Its not cheap but its legal and friendly.
As for your company carrying ham traffic, yes please and thank you.
Mark Phillips
G7LTT/KC2ENI
>From: "J.M. \"Jersey\" Miszczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: A bit of SF?
>Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:50:59 -0000
>
>Hello all,
>
>I live in South Africa and very often go "into Africa". There is no
>telephone connections in the bush :((. And distances to the nearest
>"civilised" places are often measured in hundreds of kilometers. Email
>sometimes would be very handy. I know that there are satellite phones
on
>the market but.... the price is quite high, specialy taking our
exchange
>rates into consideration.
>Is there a way of utilising ham satellites? My company is an Internet
>service provider as well and I would not have a problem with setting up
"a
>satellite Internet router" or "a satellite Email box" which could be
>utilised by others as well. Btw... Linux is the preferred operating
system
>:))
>If it is possible, I would appreciate some initial guidance.... I learn
>very fast :))).
>If this is not possible.... well I do not easily take no for an answer
>:))). I will look for some other means of distance communications.....
I
>already eliminated tam-tams..... baud rate is quite low :)))))).
>I would like to apologise if this subject was already handled on this
>forum. I did not have much time to browse through the historic data. I
got
>the whole idea few days ago during my scuba trip to Mozambique.
Beautifull
>country :))) but..... nonexistent or very basic communication
>infrastructure :(((.
>
>Best regards
>"Jersey"
>
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