What is PACTOR with SSB Short Wave Radio?

Are you somewhere in a remote position? In the middle of the jungle, out on open sea or in antarctica? Do you still want to be in contact with you friends and family? Or do you need to stay in contact with civilisation for professional reasons? PACTOR gives you the possibility to send and receive e-mails as you do at home. Just connect the modem to a HF radio and your computer, install the software with some easy clicks and get your e-mails round the world.

The SCS PACTOR PTC-IIusb modem

The PACTOR based e-mail system is very easy to understand. The SSB radio receives and sends the data, the PACTOR modem connects your laptop computer to the service provider.

The widely used software Airmail is available as freeware. When you first start Airmail, you will feel like home. Inbox, outbox, send button. An easy program similar to Outlook or other programs like Hotmail, Yahoo etc.

Airmail Software
free download under www.airmail2000.com

 
Within these limits you have a lot more useful services with the system. Weather charts on demand for your personal position, passage and trip, a weather ticker from the most popular services on the world, weather fax, broadcast receiving or individual consultation.

Exsample for NOAA broadcast weatherfax

Exsample for a individual grib file weatherforcast from www.saildocs.com

NOAA atellite Image received of South Pacific

You can also connect the modem with your GPS for APRS, a position tracking and reporting system. Familiy and friends are now able to see your trip in the internet with maps and satellite photos.

Positioning screen taken from IRON LADY
http://www.positionsreport.de/php/enterTrack.php?callSign=DL1JD

But who gives you the connectivity including all these informations after you installed the hardware? On the next world-pic and you will see all PACTOR service providers worldwide. Most of them work for marine services: motor and sailing vessels, cargo or fishing vessels.

Worldmap of all Pactor Service Provider
taken from SCS Homepage.

For special requirements you can even setup your own network depending on the frequency regulations of the country you want to run the network in. With the newest PTC-IInet modem, you only need to connect the modem to a DSL Internet provider, connect it to a radio and setup your own dial-in access point. The PTC-IInet has an integrated Linux board, so you need no additional computer. Ask us for more information about the PIB System. Just send your enquiry to info@lunatronic.net

The most used marine pactor service providers with the best coverage worldwide are :

SAILMAIL (www.sailmail.com)
250 US$/year for 10 minutes daily use
(app. 28.000 written characters a day tx/rx)

WINLINK (www.winlink.org)
free of charge, you just need a valid
HAM Radio Amateur Callsign

You have more questions? Just write an e-mail to:
info@lunatronic.net