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You can actually get email while underway? Of course! Utilizing either your HF Radio or a satellite system you can send and receive email right from your boat. There is some specialized equipment needed to connect up, however, and below we'll talk more about that.
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Equipment required
HF PACTOR system
- HF Radio
- Modem
- Boat Computer
- Software
Satellite system
- Boat Computer
- Satellite terminal
- Software
HF PACTOR Service Providers
Commercial
Commercial stations provide services over marine HF/MF Radio frequencies. Because users hold a marine license they may communicate from any territorial or international waters. Messages can be encrypted and can contain any type of information.
- Sailmail The SailMail Association is a non-profit association of yacht owners that operates and maintains an email communications system for use by its members. SailMail email can be transferred via SailMail's own world-wide network of SSB-Pactor radio stations, or via satellite (Iridium, Inmarsat, Globalstar) or any other method of internet access. (Sailmail Association)
- ShipCom LLC provides email, fax, telegram, and phone patch capabilities from several shore stations around the United States including coverage in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, and Bering Sea using WLO and KLB radio stations.
- BBRemail Brunei Bay Radio provides a Pactor/Airmail based HF/SSB radio email service from it's central South East Asian location on the north-west coast of Borneo, in an approximately 3000nm radius. (See the General section below)
Amateur Radio
E-mail services utilizing amateur radio frequency spectrum cannot be used for commercial purposes. If you plan on communicating any business-related information you should utilize a commercial service provider as these types of messages are not allowed on amateur radio. Also, you should be aware of transmitting from territorial waters of foreign countries as most have restrictions on third-party traffic and whether or not they accept your foreign amateur radio license.
- Winlink is a service for amateur radio operators to send and receive e-mail messages from anywhere on the globe.
- Winmor replaces the expensive Terminal Node Controller (TNC) usually required with a relatively cheap sound card and software.
Set Up for Email
Details?
Publications
Books, etc.
- Yachting Monthly's Using PCs on Board by Tim Thornton - coverage of PCs on board including extensive information on mobile phone, WiFi and satellite communications
Forum Discussions
List links to discussion threads on partnering forums. (see link for requirements)
- Discussion in September 2007
- Experts who can help with pactors and sailmail
- Ways of accessing email
- March 2007 programs discussed (plus how a metal pasta strainer acts as an aerial to tap into a distant wireless internet hotspot!)
- A review of the Skymate Satelite email system. December 2006
- January 2006
External links
- Wi-Fi On a Boat Excellent article on the subject.
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