[RTTY] Legality of Circumventing Commercial Maritime ISP Services??

[Ron Kolarik]

One of the pay-to-play common carrier services like Sailmail would have to file a 
formal complaint to deal with this. ARRL won't do anything and I doubt a bunch of 
hams bugging the FCC won't get results.

Ron
K0IDT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan White" <hdwhite at charter.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 9:50 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Legality of Circumventing Commercial Maritime ISP Services??


> 
> Yachtsmen may be using amateur radio in order to avoid paying the fees 
> for more expensive maritime email systems, perhaps such as 
> http://www.sailmail.com/ , which charges an annual vessel fee of $250. 
> This is most certainly a "radio service".
>