[Pactor] Anyone Still Around

[Scott]

I have pretty much given up on Pactor.  As you note PACTOR II & III  are 
proprietary and so modems supporting them are absurdely expensive given 
the technology.  I have used PACTOR I with some success but my interest 
is e-mail from my boat and I  can'yt justify the modem  cost considering 
the royalty expense paid to the license holder.  MARS got a free ride 
but the down stream users did not..  FYI, PACTOR was developed within 
and with the help of the ham community.  Once developed by us,  the 
progenitors took it commercial and soaked all of us to use it!!
Too Bad!!
Cheers,

Scott  W7GSM
1971 Grampian 26 FinelyFreee
1972 Columbia 30 ScottsFreee 


John Wolfe wrote:

>Hi Craig,
>
>Don't see a lot of traffic on this reflector, but there are still folks
>which use it.
>
>MARS uses pactor a lot.  There's movement afoot to migrate to the enhanced
>pactor II and III modes but I'm cheap, so I haven't made the leap.  I don't
>like the cost associated with them, and the fact that the latter are
>proprietary.
>
>I was looking at some info online that shows pactor continues to be used to
>forward NTS traffic as well.  I'm getting the itch to go that way myself,
>that is, convert my pactor BBS on MARS frequencies back to amateur radio, or
>at least do it part time.  Seems more traffic is passed via ham radio
>anyway.
>
>73,
>John/AA0NN
>Columbus AFB, MS
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pactor-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:pactor-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>On Behalf Of Craig Still
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:16 PM
>To: PACTOR at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Pactor] Anyone Still Around
>
>Greetings to those on the list..
>
>This is Craig, N4CQR. Anyone still using Pactor?. I have been absent for
>several years and just returned.
>I can remember many a x-TOR QSO. Has the mode fallen victim to other modes
>and/or activities?.
>I realize Pactor and Amtor (G-TOR too) are fairly wide modes but they gave
>me, and I hope others, a lot
>of pleasure. I have called CQ several times over the past several days with
>not a single reply. I hope people
>have not given up on this, as well as other "older" modes in lieu of newer
>modes. 
>
>Look forward to hearing any reply.
>
>Craig - N4CQR
>Berea, KY
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