On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:35:22 +1100, Bruce Riley
wrote:

Doug Dotson wrote:
Get a ham license if you don't already have one. Email is then
free along with alot of other nice services.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

"Bruce Riley" wrote in message
...

I am planning an extended cruise later this year, including a Pacific
crossing. What have people found about getting internet access via
satellite or other, both at sea and whilst in port?



I have a ham licence (vk3zsr)and will use that for email etc, but the
first mate wants more than that - don't they all?

Tell her to win a lottery, then. It is possible, as Ellen MacArthur is
showing, to get streaming video from a moving sailboat, but it is
ruinously expensive and technically challenging.

Maybe in five years' time, it will be cheaper, but weatherfax and
e-mail via SSB is as good as it gets for most, with the option to hook
up at internet cafes or MAYBE use wireless access in First World
marinas and some places in Asia.

There is the notion of "getting away from it all"...G

R.