Steven, It is good of you to highlight this often forgotten communication mode!
In Eastern and Southern Africa there are at least two commercial companies who will receive Pactor radio messages and put them out on the Internet. BushLink operates in Tanzania and BushMail is a South African based company working in the countries around South Africa. BushLink: http://www.bushlink.co.tz/ http://www.habari.co.tz/node/radio.html (older version) BushMail: http://www.bushmail.co.za/ This link from May 1998 indicates the existence of other commercial providers in Africa: http://www.nsrc.org/wireless/HF-radio.html I will send you separately a copy of an NGO report on what it meant for a remote village, Wino in South West Tanzania to get Email over HF Radio. Wino lacks electricity and until a couple of years ago, any form of communications facilities. Also refer to: http://www.stonepower.se/Images/WINO_ICT.pdf Check these photos to see, how Karl B. Staddon, VE6KBS, sent emails around the world while climbing Kilimanjaro: http://winlink.org/stations/images/ve6kbsPix.htm Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology has installed Email over HF Radio to the Urambo Power Cooperative and might have some information (Refer Dr Richard Masika): http://www.dit.ac.tz/ Regards Ralph Karhammar ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
