[Linux-ham] Congrats!

[Kevin Otte]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> i have these visions of sitting on a sailboat away from PCS towers and
> wondered if ham is a viable way to get IP.

Nope.  There really isn't much being done in the area of amateur digital
networks, and even if you do happen upon a network, there isn't a direct
gateway over to the Internet.  Then of course there are the legal issues of
what you can and can't transmit over amateur frequencies.

The short of it is amateur radio is not a viable replacement for an ISP.

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Kevin Otte, N8VNR
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