[Elecraft] PACTOR iii

[Kevin]

Amen!

There are a lot of Yachtsmen/women who got their license for one reason 
and one reason alone. To keep from paying for the Sail Mail 
subscription. it amounts to $250/yr or about $21/month uses marine 
frequencies and marine type accepted equipment and the 
ubiquitous/infamous SCS Pactor III modem.

On 04/29/2012 07:19 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>> However that said, Pactor III is a godsend for us hams that are
>> cruising on our boats....here in the south pacific, I can send/rec
>> email, and get all kinds of weather charts/info to make my sailing
>> safer. Pactor III may not be for you, but it is for me
> And commercial or quasi-commercial traffic should be conducted on
> commercial frequencies not on top of amateur users whenever the damn
> PACTOR-bots decide to start transmitting.
>
> As one of the twelve who were on the ARRL committee that formulated
> the automatic and semi-automatic control concepts nearly 30 years ago,
> allowing *any* form of automatic control is one of the biggest mistakes
> in nearly 100 years of amateur radio - right up with phone patches in
> the amateur service.
>
> 73,
>
>      ... Joe, W4TV

-- 
R. Kevin Stover
AC0H