Last summer, on a sailing cruise from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands
and back, I used both Sailmail and Winlink. Well, I *tried* to use Winlink,
but I had so much trouble getting a useable connection that I finally gave
up on it and ended up relying on Sailmail. It seemed to me that Winlink was
so overloaded that it was practically useless. Sailmail let me connect in
reasonably short order, which is an issue on my sailboat since I don't like
burning up excess Amp Hours trying and retrying to connect.

-Paul (wb6cxc, S.V. VALIS)



"Doug Dotson" wrote in message
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As long as you don't need to conduct business via email,
Winlink is a better service anyway.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

"Freebee" wrote in message
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maybe i'll just do the ham thing.