--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, W2XJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
So are all the radios we use, ICOM, YAESU, KENWOOD, ALINCO to name a few. Are they commercial too? Noone is going to make something for nothing OM. These are all commercial radios and we like to call them Amateur because we like to use them. Same with the SCS modems. As for the rich tanned German guy, is it illegal to be rich and tanned now? Should we ban from the hobby the tanned rich Germans now? 73 de Demetre SV1UY
