Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 6 Jul 2005 13:38:10 -0700, "
wrote:

Thanks. We made it just fine, even had a chance to get reacquainted
with ham radio along the way via Winlink/Airmail/APRS, etc. APRS was a
real crowd pleaser with the friends and relatives back home who could
track our progress and position along the way. Meanwhile I've worked
about half a dozen countries from the boat in the last couple of weeks
on 20M SSB.

Winlink, Airmail and APRS are all fantastic systems and a real credit
to the guys who put it together and made it work.

They did a hell of a job didn't they?

They sure did. It's good to see ham radio leveraging up to date
technology in creative and useful ways. Pactor III in particular looks
like it is right on the cutting edge of what is do able.