> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] SSB > To: <[email protected]>
> I cannot talk from practical experience here... > > It bears pointing out that a HAM license is for the PERSON, and as Lee > says, a Marine Station or Ship's license is for the VESSEL. A amateur radio (ham) license is both a station and operator license. It follows the person, and is good for amateur radio frequencies *only*. It provides NO privileges on the frequencies associated with other services, including marine. Reciprocity with other countries is straightforward, but does in some cases require filing for local licenses with host countries, including the Bahamas. Marine SSB licensing provides for separate station (SA) (follows the boat) and operators (RR) (follows the operator) licenses. Reciprocity follows the sovereign "soil" of the documented ship/boat/vessel and is good worldwide. > A HAM license, even in the USA, subject to correction, allows > transmission on ALL frequencies, including HAM only. Absolutely not. A ham license is good for transmission only on authorized ham frequencies. > Look at the difference in pricing for "marine HAM > only" radios and the full spectrum radios. I'm not sure what you are talking about here. There are ham radios that can be modified for use on non-ham frequencies. They are not type-accepted for use in those services and are not legal--except in emergencies--to use in any other service, including marine SSB. There are properly type-accepted marine SSB radios (under US, Canadian, Australian, EU, and other laws) that can legally be used on ham frequencies including products from Icom, Furuno, and Sailor. > Also keep in mind the > differences between the 2 competing "HAM e-mail" systems, and the rules > around each one, which all relates back to which frequencies etc. a full > HAM can work on and those a "marine HAM" can. There are two ham e-mail systems I am aware of. Winlink uses Pactor-III. PSK-email uses PSK-31. Both operate only on ham frequencies. Sailmail, Ocens, Cruis-E-mail all are marine e-mail systems that work only on marine frequencies. I use Winlink under the terms of my ham license and Sailmail under the terms of my marine licenses. sail fast, dave _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
