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From: Rick H Kennerly (no email)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 05:06:50 EST
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Which really my point--and in fewer lines of text. It's a good system if
you're cruising, but it's not like dial-up at all, which will really
irritate non-radio people if they're not prepared for it. But it also makes
an e-mail group of really-out-there-cruising types less practical because of
the air-time load. If you're not headed for the Caribbean, then all that
chatter about checking in at St Lucia becomes just air time burning
junkmail.
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On our trip down to the islands, we purposely didn't have very much traffic
coming in via radio e-mail because no one knew our winlink e-mail address,
but I did give relatives an internet link like this so that they could track
our progress via APRS (automatic position reporting system). Plus we'd add a
little status or "all's well, lots of whales yesterday!" message to the top
of the message like this German Ham did.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=DK9XT
Of course, APRS is updated via radio e-mail on the Ham system.
Rick Kennerly, NH2F
Rick the Mouseherder
Xapic, Westsail 32
Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
www.mouseherder.com/xapic
www.westsail.org
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