Email at Sea
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EMAIL AT SEA
Description
How it works, etc.
Equipment required
Service Providers
List of HF email service providers
- Sailmail The SailMail Association is a non-profit association of yacht owners that operates and maintains an email communications system for use by its members. SailMail email can be transferred via SailMail's own world-wide network of SSB-Pactor radio stations, or via satellite (Iridium, Inmarsat, Globalstar) or any other method of internet access. (Sailmail Association)
- Winlink A good, independant description is available HERE
- BBRemail Brunei Bay Radio provides a Pactor/Airmail based HF/SSB radio email service from it's central SE Asian location on the north-west coast of Borneo, in an approximately 3000nm radius. (See the General section below)
Set Up for Email
Details?
Publications
Books, etc.
- Yachting Monthly's Using PCs on Board by Tim Thornton - coverage of PCs on board including extensive information on mobile phone, WiFi and satellite communications
Forum Discussions
List links to discussion threads on partnering forums. (see link for requirements)
- Discussion in September 2007
- Experts who can help with pactors and sailmail
- Ways of accessing email
- March 2007 programs discussed (plus how a metal pasta strainer acts as an aerial to tap into a distant wireless internet hotspot!)
- A review of the Skymate Satelite email system. December 2006
- January 2006
General
Brunei Bay Radio.
Brunei Bay Radio now operates an extended version of SailMail suited to charter yachts, live-aboard dive and surf charter boats, remote islands, cruising families (ie: with children doing schooling via email), cruisers who still need to manage a business from their boats, isolated jungle camps, off-the-beaten track cruisers, and more. The service uses the same HF/SSB radio, Pactor modem and AirMail software as SailMail, but also permits attachments (Word, Excel, PDF, JPG etc) and larger daily connection time subscriptions; 20, 30 or 40 mins per day. It operates throughout the same service area as the SailMail gateway I host here - SE Asia, NW Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean. The north and west coasts of Australia, Japan, Solomon Islands, Cocos Island, Chagos and the Maldives are all within range of the base equipment here in Brunei.
Many subscribers have relegated their expensive-to-operate satellite based phone/text/email systems to "back-up" status after joining this service. The convenience of a low annual subscription with no monthly bills, reliable service (even in the regular heavy cloud that blocks "low-cost" satellite systems in this region) and local support from Brunei Bay Radio makes this service very attractive.
For cruisers - especially those with school aged children or those still managing businesses - who wish to enjoy the less populated and less commercialised areas of SE Asia and beyond, the additional capabilities of this low-cost HF/SSB radio email service makes uncongested anchorages, remote islands and less travelled areas feasible for many people; free of the need to cruise from one WiFi equipped marina to the next. Info Website
External Links
- Wi-Fi On a Boat Excellent article on the subject.
Personal Notes
Personal experiences with the systems?
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