Next message: nottoway2016: "[world-cruising] [Re: email via radio"
For us non-SSB types (I rent an Iridium sat phone for long offshore
passages), I came across a handheld sat e mail device called a
Magellan GSC which gives worldwiide e mail coverage although the
description suggests it is slow and is confined to short messages.
The MSRP is less than $1,000. Does anyone have any experience with
it?
Spencer
--- In , susan meckley
<ussvdharma at dot dot dot > wrote:
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> I have received a number of requests about reeiving email via SSB
Radio. For Hams there is a free system called WINLINK.org. Just do
a google search and you wioll come up with the program and all the
info....it is good, slow 9VIA RADIO) BUT i CAN GET EMAIL VIA
WINLINK.ORG EVEN WHEN AT SEA OR ON SOME DESERTED ISLAND IN THE
PACIFIC
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> Of course there are the sat. downlinks (commercial) , like
PINOAK, etc, however they are expensivel
>
> NON-hams should check out sailmail.com only 250j/year and you
get your email via ssb radio with no individual message charge.
>
> Someone asked about buying th modems. I, and some of my
friends, have been using Farallon Electronics in Sausilito, CA.
Exttremely good as far as support goes. Gary Wood is the PACTOR guy
there.
>
> Susan Meckley
> USSV Dharma
>
>
> If you don't change direction you will arrive exactly where you're
headed!!
>
> Susan Meckley, Skipper
> USSV Dharma
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