[Elecraft] PACTOR iii

[Scott Manthe]

Well, some of the irritation is brought about something you mention 
casually: Your using Pactor to email family and friends. Unless your 
family and friends are all amateurs, communicating with them was at one 
time not allowed. Amateurs were not allowed to communicate with 
non-amateurs, no matter the mode, excepting for autopatches and phone 
patches. None of these operations was automatic, and a licensed amateur 
was always in control of the transmission. This is not the case with the 
Pactor autobots.

Secondly, and this just my opinion, there is a maritime radio service, 
so why don't you sailors use that to email your family and friends and 
transmit logs and get weather information? Since vessels have a 
dedicated radio service to do everything needed, why pollute the amateur 
bands with maritime communications? There is absolutely no need to use 
the amateur bands for this, especially the autoforwarding stuff. No way 
to justify this, except that sailors have a lot of money and influence 
in both Newington and D.C.

73,
Scott, N9AA



On 4/29/12 10:18 PM, Chip Stratton wrote:
> I guess I'm one of the unclean. I licensed 3 1/2 years ago primarily
> because I wanted to be able to use my vessel's SSB while  making an
> occasional offshore passage. Now I'm a die-hard Elecraft fan with a
> KX1, a K2, (jonesing for a KX3) and a slowly increasing code speed.
> Except for those occasions when I'm offshore and use Pactor3 to post
> position reports, and communicate via email with family and friends, I
> am almost exclusively CW these days.
>
> I'm a little puzzled by the irritation with the presence of amateur
> Pactor3 transmissions in the Ham bands. The usual Pactor RMS
> frequencies seem to be well away from the commonly used CW frequencies
> (30m maybe an exception), and when operating CW I've never found them
> to be a problem. During contests, when the entire band is filled with
> CW ops, I can see how an op looking for a clear freq might run into
> QRM from sailors using Pactor modems. That's not to excuse those who
> fire up their modems without listening first, but normally there seems
> to be plenty of room for everybody.
>
> Chip
> AE5KA