[Elecraft] PACTOR iii

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> 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.

Most of those "checkbook amateurs" don't even know what other digital
signals sound like.  They simply turn on the computer with its pre-
programmed list of nodes/frequencies and let the radio hammer away
until it hits on a node that it can trigger ... causing QRM to real
ham users all along the way.  Of course once it finds a PACTOR III
box and opens up the full bandwidth the PACTOR-bot wipes out 5 KHz
in a flash.

The "amateur" founders of SCS are among the lowest form of "life" in
my book - along with other "greats" like Romeo and Don Miller.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 4/29/2012 8:43 PM, Kevin wrote:
> 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
>