[RTTY] Commerical Marine Station Using PACTOR

[Ron Kolarik]

YellowBrick tracking through Iridium allows position reports, SMS, and short 2-way emails.
No computer or expensive modem needed and 100% global coverage.
http://www.yellowbrick-tracking.com/?page_id=1523
It will communicate with a smartphone for longer email messages, lots of features and 
no amateur radio needed either.....

Ron
K0IDT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry" <ab5k at hotmail.com>
To: "'Thomas W4HM'" <thomasfgiella at gmail.com>; "'rtty @ COL'" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commerical Marine Station Using PACTOR


> Interesting, the Winlink Competition list now stands at:   INMARSAT,
> Globalstar, Intellisat Services , SailMail and KKL Radio.
> 
> Terry   AB5K
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Thomas W4HM
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:37 AM
> To: rtty @ COL
> Subject: [RTTY] Commerical Marine Station Using PACTOR
> 
> I was doing some SWL'ing yesterday evening after the Aegean RTTY contest and
> came across this commercial marine station KKL in Vashon, WA on 8182 kHz. On
> their web page http://www.kklradio.com  they offer email messaging services
> via what they call an ALE box, which costs the customer $3075 and uses the
> PACTOR 2 and PACTOR 3 modems.
> 
> I was a bit surprised of their existence as I thought that the only
> commercial marine station left in the USA was WLO in Mobile, AL
> 
> 73 & GUD DX,
> Thomas F. Giella W4HM
> Lakeland, FL, USA
> thomasfgiella at gmail.com