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From: Lee Haefele (no email)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 07:45:10 EST
Simplest e.mail is Pocketmail, but it requires a phone. A wonderful, reliable service. The phone is toll free in US, not Bahamas. I like to send a message to file my trip plans and don't always go ashore, so this is a problem. It will work with certain cell phones, but is slow and unreliable. If it is free time it is not bad, but it may take 15 minutes to get a few e.mails after it aborts several times.
Tomorrow I take the Ham Morse Code exam, then I can try WinLink Ham e.mail on Ham SSB, this is highly recommended. (I passed Tech & General written exams already.) There is also Sailmail on Marine SSB, $200/year, requires 2 FCC licenses (Station & Restricted Radiotelephone Operator), but there are no exams, just file online and pay about $200 in fees by credit card. The entire Marine SSB setup with modem for e.mail will set you back $2-4k + installation. This radio will then work on both Ham and Marine.
Lee Haefele
Nauicat 33 "Alesto"
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: mobil internet
In a message dated 05/12/2003 06:36:56 GMT Standard Time, writes:
There are a lot of cruisers using Verizon's standard service to access
E-mail and surf the internet so I decided it might be appropriate to talk
about a few of the eccentricities I've observed as a long time customer with
a modicum of technology skills.
<BIG SNIP>
Fair Winds and practice safe computing! That's why they call it a
"confuser"!
Regards....
Phil Rosch
Old Harbor Consulting
M/V Curmudgeon MT-44TC
Currently moored in Fort Pierce, FL
been reading this stuff with some interest can anyone advise me the most stable way to do e-mail and "maybe" updating a website while sailing in the Caribbean apart from using a web cafe.
thanks in anticipation
kindest regards
David
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