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exposure once whispered in the wind:
There is also a mod to make this radio suitable for email, I'll do that down the road when I get a Pactor modem.
Woody (AA7HN)
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Looked into the cost of the
email +
pactor for my old M700Uk and was advised that it would probably not
work very well. I then realised that the cost of the pactor was more than an
Iridium from ebay - no contest!
others have spoken earlier about the
emergency aspects of
SSB. Good way of getting help from other cruisers and of discussing things when the shore authorities know you have a problem, but the
Epirb is the best system for raising the
alarm, and an
iridium makes a good back up to that (especially as you can take it into the
liferaft, and have a small
solar panel to keep it going!)
SSB is the only way to have a sociable chat with other cruisers, and a good way of getting the
weather.