Marc Heusser
alid wrote in
:

Can you point me to a good overview list of such services in
the ham
community (for beginners).
I never came around to do the licence, but am starting boating
again.
As an MSEE it is quite easy to get the ham licence - so as I do
not have
any plans on building tranceivers myself, I should get started
quite
easily. 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 :-)

TIA

Marc


Sure, Marc. Start at www.qrz.com where there is lots of free
information. I've no idea what the Swiss testing and licensing
is, however. Your national prefix is HB9 and I have many Swiss
friends because of a Swiss friend, Werner AA4IX who lives here.
He's 83, from Steffisburg/Thun on the Thunersee in Berner
Oberland.

I'm sure you can find a local Swiss ham radio club to help you
get into the hobby. On your boat, I highly recommend the Icom
M802 marine SSB because you simply hold down a couple of buttons
and turn it on to open it up for all frequencies, including ham
radio use. Many boaters use ham equipment they're not supposed
to for marine HF, here, because ham rigs are much cheaper. Who's
going to arrest you in the middle of the Atlantic?...(c;

I found this website with MAC software for ham radio:
http://machamradio.com/HamsAndX.html

Swiss ham radio goes way back:
http://www.oneillselectronicmuseum.c...histsec_1.html

Here's some more websites:
http://www.eham.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._organizations

I think the Swiss national ham radio organisation can help you:
http://www.uska.ch/

http://www.w4mnr.com/w4mnrlinks.htm
http://www.hb9drv.ch/
http://forums.ham-radio.ch/index.php?
s=cf25a2958ac3f9529f331160d60dadf0
http://forums.ham-radio.ch/member.php?u=3

Best of luck to you! Ham radio means you're not alone out there.

Larry
--
73 DE W4CSC
Charleston, South Carolina USA
http://www.qrz.com/callsign
put w4csc into the callsign box...(c;

Justin C wrote in
:

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

Thanks for the pointer, Justin! I want to try a few of these on my
new Nokia N800 Linux internet tablet....(c;

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

Thank you both, Larry and Wayne. That should get me started.

In article ,
Larry wrote:

I've no idea what the Swiss testing and licensing
is, however.

Basically the same as in most countries. There is a beginners licence,
and a full licence (CEPT).

As an MSEE you do not have to pass any technical exam (where there is a
difference between beginners and full licence), just 50 pages of
regulations, which are the same for both. So in essence it only requires
to learn some 100 or 200 items of regulatory rules, that's it.

Marc

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Switzerland/Europe
http://www.heusser.com
remove CHEERS and from MERCIAL to get valid e-mail

Marc Heusser
alid wrote in
:

As an MSEE you do not have to pass any technical exam (where
there is a
difference between beginners and full licence), just 50 pages
of
regulations, which are the same for both. So in essence it only
requires
to learn some 100 or 200 items of regulatory rules, that's it.



In the US, they don't care if you have PhDEE, you take the test.

At least they've stopped with the stupid Morse testing that's
like making you show them you know how to ride a horse before
they let you take the driver's test for cars.....

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

In article ,
Larry wrote:

In the US, they don't care if you have PhDEE, you take the test.

Am I glad US and Switzerland seem to recognize each other's licences,
should I ever get to US again :-)

Marc

--
Switzerland/Europe
http://www.heusser.com
remove CHEERS and from MERCIAL to get valid e-mail

If you use AirMail or SailMail you can file position reports generated by
your GPS data automatically. See
http://www.pangolin.co.nz/yotreps/index.php and/or www.SailMail.com

YotReps also has software that will generate correctly formatted reports
via other e-mail systems. I've also written my own tracking software which
utilizes the same log format as YotReps and displays them on google maps as
shown at http://www.geoffschultz.org/Position_Map.php

-- Geoff

Marc Heusser alid wrote
in :

Am I glad US and Switzerland seem to recognize each other's licences,
should I ever get to US again :-)

Marc



Yes, my friend Werner, AA4IX, has many Swiss friends who grace us with
their presence during the year from the Thun - Interlaken area. They all
get reciprocal licensing when they come over to visit.

Sometimes, they even take pity on us ugly Americans and say something in
English, not Thuner Country German even my friends from Bonn have trouble
understanding...(c;

When I first got Werner on the internet, the first email I sent him had
some Thun URLs for him to explore back home. Three of them were brothels
with webpages!....(c;

Larry
--
Some of those girls looked pretty good!

Geoff Schultz wrote in
:

If you use AirMail or SailMail you can file position reports generated
by your GPS data automatically. See
http://www.pangolin.co.nz/yotreps/index.php and/or www.SailMail.com

YotReps also has software that will generate correctly formatted
reports via other e-mail systems. I've also written my own tracking
software which utilizes the same log format as YotReps and displays
them on google maps as shown at
http://www.geoffschultz.org/Position_Map.php

-- Geoff


The boat I've been installing new gear into will join the Caribbean 1500
race to Tortola as it passes Charleston, they hope, in the Jeanneau 40
"Dress Parade". They got some kind of position reporting gadget from the
race committee that will show their position 6 times a day over the
webpage:
http://www.carib1500.com/
but I haven't seen it, yet. They're taking an Iridium phone with them that
belongs to the bank president down E-dock for calling home. It should be
interesting to see how this carib1500.com system works.

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:47:50 +0000, Larry wrote:

The boat I've been installing new gear into will join the Caribbean 1500
race to Tortola as it passes Charleston, they hope, in the Jeanneau 40
"Dress Parade". They got some kind of position reporting gadget from the
race committee that will show their position 6 times a day

Many of the big time sailing races have started using tracking devices
on all boats. The results that I've seen have been impressive.

There is another APRS/Airmail/Sailmail/etc. site that I like:

www.shiptrak.org

It displays a good zoomable graphic of all position reports and gives
you a text log at the bottom. I cut and paste our position log into a
spreadsheet every now and then to save it.