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No Internet? Use a Radio! Email Access via HF Radio

January 31, 2015 Leave a Comment

Before I got involved in a cruising boat I thought of radio being a voice transmission device. You know, you talk on it, you hear other people talk on it. When pressed I had to admit, yes, I know that they used Morse Code on the radio, too. I mean I’ve seen war movies from […]

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: airmail, hf radio, pactor, rs-232, usb, yotreps

Getting Weather Reports Offshore; GRIB files and faxes

January 31, 2015 Leave a Comment

There’s a newer article on this subject, see Weather Faxes… Offshore We’re all familiar with listening to spoken weather forecasts on the VHF radio. But VHF has a line-of-sight reception and even an antenna on top of your mast can’t pick up a station more than 10 or 20 miles away. So what do you […]

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: airmail, coastal explorer, grib, ham, hf radio, how-to, pactor, sailimail, ssb, weather, winlink

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