--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Roger J. Buffington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Demetre SV1UY wrote: > > > > You have your opinion and I have mine. Now if you can't be bothered > > to look for PACTOR keyboard to keyboard QSOS this is your problem not > > mine. When I look I can always find some. > > You know, it may be that way in Europe. After all, SCS is there. Here > in the States there are essentially zero Pactor K-toK qsos. I **did** > look for them. For years. But none, sorry. As James Madison once > said, facts are stubborn things. > > >As for Winlink not been an > > emergency resource, I have read and still read otherwise in the > > radio amateur literature around the world. > > Yeah, I've read some of this too. Most of it is pure propaganda by > people with obvious agendas. Winlink and mailboxes are a negligible > contributor to emergency communications. Facts are stubborn things, > Demetre. > > > If you just want to spoil a Great Radio Amateur Global Communication > > System > > Well, far be it from me to spoil a (drum roll) Great Radio Amateur > Global Communication System!!!! > > Happy New Year de Roger W6VZV >
Hmm OK, I hope this anti SCS thing is not going to end to being an anti-European thing Roger. I get that feeling somehow, since SCS is not an American company. Also anyone can class your claims againstt Winlink and PACTOR as pure propaganda. The stubborn fact is that Winlink2000 is still the one and only Great Radio Amateur Global Communications System available today. PSKmail is getting there slowly but surely. FLARQ is also a new system and it is also heading the same way. So it seems that many Radio Hams believe that it is worth having a system similar to Winlink2000, unlike you, and both these other 2 systems are trying really hard to get some real speed on HF and become at least similar to PACTOR 2 or even 3. But of course with people like you fighting against PROGRESS and wanting to keep the Ham Bands for theirself they will have problems. 73 de Demetre SV1UY
