“Getting Started with Ham Radio Email - A Pactor Primer”
by Jim Corenman KE6RK
http://www.airmail2000.com/pprimer.htm
This document is intended as a guide for the mobile ham who is new to the world of message forwarding via the ham
radio HF
Pactor network. It is written by the author of the AirMail personal mailbox program, primarily for cruising sailors and RV travelers that want to stay in touch via amateur radio and
email. Subjects covered include
advice on
equipment selection and
installation, getting started with the AirMail program and getting connected to the Pactor
network. The last section also covers doing it the hard way, using a dumb terminal program.
Contents:
1. Overview of the network
2. Choice of
Equipment
3.
Installation Basics
4. Getting Connected with Airmail
5. Using a Terminal Program
6. Glossary
7. Links - For further browsing
And another from Peg and Tom Maynard (N2WJY), aboard their forty foot sailboat, “Starboard Home”
(Last “Yachtrep” - 2004/06/01- 10:12 @ 038̊ 43' 00" N x 016̊ 07' 00" E - Arrived Vebo Vaelentia,
Italy 6/1/2004
http://www.gate1.net/starboardhome/G...o/abouteml.htm
About HF E-Mail:
Onboard e-mail using long range high frequency (HF) radios is possible using either
marine single sideband (SSB) radio and
commercial frequencies or Amateur Radio (Ham) equipment and assigned frequencies. Both
work basically the same: messages are prepared on an onboard computer, converted to radio signals via a special computer-to-radio
modem (called a terminal node controller or TNC), and then transmitted by the radio to a shore station. The shore station places the message on the
internet for conventional
delivery. Email to the
boat is sent to the shore station where it is held in individual mail boxes for pick up by the
boat the next time the boat checks in. Once the contact between the boat and the shore station is made, the transfer of messages is usually automatic ... (see the link above)