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How to Get Weather Faxes, GRIBS and Email Offshore Using Your Radio

February 17, 2020 1 Comment

Getting Weather Faxes, weather GRIB files and sending and receiving email offshore is easy with an HF Radio, a Pactor Modem and Airmail Software. All the steps are shown with screenshots to make it easy for you.

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: email, hf radio, pactor, weather GRIBS, weatherfax

Connect a Laptop to HF Radio

May 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

Once offshore the internet is inaccessible by a laptop without assistance. To connect a laptop to HF Radio you will need a packet-data modem such as the Pactor to connect to your radio, then some additional hardware to connect your Pactor to the laptop. With this system you can connect to the internet for basic things like sending and receiving email and receiving […]

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: hf radio, packet-data, Pactor modem, Serial, usb

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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