If you go to the SCS website, it clearly states that PACTORIII is designed for commercial operation, especially maritime. They then have a tanned rich German guy on the website giving a testimonial how the system works from his yacht. If people want to tie up marine frequencies with such a low speed system, fine. Personally I think if one can afford a sea going vessel with an installed ham station, they can carry Immarsat and move data at 64 kbps. This has no place on amateur frequencies.
Demetre SV1UY wrote: > Hi Skip, > > I am quoting here my reply to DAVE about his Anti-radiation missiles > tuned to PACTOR PMBO frequencies for your information! > That shows you exactly the attitude of some people against anything > they dislike and how they act. If the Pactor PMBOs activated any DCD > mechanism, people like Dave would sit there all day to deliberately > cause QRM with their Anti-Radiation missiles tuned to the PACTOR PMBO > frequencies, as he said, and cause havoc. Is this kind of QRM accepted > by you? > > What about this Skip? Is this justified? Tell me what works perfectly > on HF and if we manage to correct them all then PACTOR will follow and > I believe the PMBOs will have no problem finding a way to implement a > DCD mechanism. > > And just like Andy, our moderator, said previously: > ------------------------- > Aside from Pactor, I suspect that many ALE operations are not always > under full manual control. Neither are some Propnet stations that use > 300 baud packet or PSK31. Many DXpeditions act like they can transmit > any place they want, and then there are also the folks at W1AW who > send old news automatically at predetermined times via RTTY and CW. > -------------------------- > And I must add, what about the numerous nets on HF that deliberately > cause QRM when anyone dares to use their frequency before they start > their NET? What about AX25 BBS FORWARDING that still takes place on > HF? (These are really the automatic ROBOTS, not the semi-automatic > PACTOR PMBOs), what about HF APRS Digis? > > What are you going to do about all them? > > Fix the HF bands first and then blame PACTOR PMBOs and automatic > operations. > > Forget about PACTOR 3 being the problem because it isn't. > > 73 de Demetre SV1UY
