In article , Marc Heusser wrote:
And with a Macintosh computer running OS X I do understand that
quite a few services can run on it when connected to a ham radio. (If
you have pointers for such sofware too :-)

I'm not a ham, but as a Linux and OS X user this is of vague interest to me (of course, this tech. applied to sailing is also of interest). Anyway, here's a link to a list of stuff that you should be able to get to work (how useful (any of) it is I can't say):

http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/

In case the "Debian GNU Linux" throws you, OS X is built on Unix, Linux is Unix (more or less - enough that it won't make a difference for your purposes).... but Linux != OS X (just is case you were adding two and two and making 5).

Justin.

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Justin C, by the sea.