Re: Amateur Radio - to get weather info, access mail etc?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:10:11 +0100, Marc Heusser
<marc.heusser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I am an electrical engineer and could quite easily get a licence for 
>amateur radio.
>Does it pay off if I'd do that to access weather charts etc on a boat - 
>this year in Europe, both on inland waterways in France and in the 
>eastern North sea (between Germany, Denmark and Sweden)?
>
>Apart from a transceiver I have a Mac that should decode the signals 
>without any extra hardware with MultiMode 
>(http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/multimode.html).
>
>Or are other options better?
>
>TIA
>
>Marc


A friend that does a lot of open ocean passages gets weather re****ts
vis SailMail, if I'm not wrong. I can email him and get more details
if you are interested.

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)