> There are a lot of Yachtsmen/women who got their license for one > reason and one reason alone. To keep from paying for the Sail Mail > subscription. it amounts to $250/yr or about $21/month uses marine > frequencies and marine type accepted equipment and the > ubiquitous/infamous SCS Pactor III modem.
Most of those "checkbook amateurs" don't even know what other digital signals sound like. They simply turn on the computer with its pre- programmed list of nodes/frequencies and let the radio hammer away until it hits on a node that it can trigger ... causing QRM to real ham users all along the way. Of course once it finds a PACTOR III box and opens up the full bandwidth the PACTOR-bot wipes out 5 KHz in a flash. The "amateur" founders of SCS are among the lowest form of "life" in my book - along with other "greats" like Romeo and Don Miller. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 4/29/2012 8:43 PM, Kevin wrote: > Amen! > > There are a lot of Yachtsmen/women who got their license for one reason > and one reason alone. To keep from paying for the Sail Mail > subscription. it amounts to $250/yr or about $21/month uses marine > frequencies and marine type accepted equipment and the > ubiquitous/infamous SCS Pactor III modem. > > On 04/29/2012 07:19 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: >>> However that said, Pactor III is a godsend for us hams that are >>> cruising on our boats....here in the south pacific, I can send/rec >>> email, and get all kinds of weather charts/info to make my sailing >>> safer. Pactor III may not be for you, but it is for me >> And commercial or quasi-commercial traffic should be conducted on >> commercial frequencies not on top of amateur users whenever the damn >> PACTOR-bots decide to start transmitting. >> >> As one of the twelve who were on the ARRL committee that formulated >> the automatic and semi-automatic control concepts nearly 30 years ago, >> allowing *any* form of automatic control is one of the biggest mistakes >> in nearly 100 years of amateur radio - right up with phone patches in >> the amateur service. >> >> 73, >> >> ... Joe, W4TV > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html