Byron Hurder wrote:
.. I MUST have access to the net. But ... considering my lifestyle ... I don't always have access to a telephone line.OK, this is interesting. Byron, can you give us an idea how this works? Most of us have at least a general idea how conventional e-mail and radio work (or at least *how to work them*--which is different) but:Again, Amateur Radio to the rescue. I can get every ounce of email that I want, by way of ham radio.
1) Where is incoming e-mail stored before you access it? Is there some kind of special server auto-hooked to a radio, or do you have to ask a humid bean to send your mail?
2) When the mail comes in, what's the link between the radio and your computer? Are the data analog or digital? Is there a special A/D converter, or some other kind of black box, between the radio and the computer? (Maybe you could walk us through a mail pick-up?)
3) What's the transmission rate?
4) Re:
... I MUST have access to the netare any 'net functions besides e-mail available this way?
5) Given that we already have computers-cum-modems, what kind of $ are involved in getting the other necessary eqt?
6) Aren't you sorry you made that post? :-)#
Rob Super/Rob Super Design