#Radio Help
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Dear Betty:
Hi! How are you? It's been a long time. I decided once
more to come here from some help, since you've always been very supportive
answering my questions. As I've told you in other ocassions I live in
Argentina, and because of that, connecting with CIS is very expensive for
me (about U$S 150 per hour-yes, one hundred and fifty!), so I am always
searching for alternative ways of communicating with you. The other day I
heard that you can use radio instead of telephone to access data services
and when I saw that you had a section on amateur radio I thought of asking
the following questions: 1) Is it true? How does it work? 2) What equipment
do I need? (what's the cost?) 3) Are CIS charges the same? How do I access
CIS from a radio? 4) What baud rate can I achieve effectively from
overseas?
It would be great if it works because the most expensive part is the long
distance call. Once again thanks for your attention and help!. Bye
Ruben Sigal – 72317,1516k
Ruben
Welcome back, Ruben. We certainly appreciate the problem of the high cost
of calling from Argentina! We can hope that, as time goes by,
communications from there will become more affordable.
You've come to the right forum, but the wrong person, for information on
calling by radio. We have many people on here who are very knowledgeable
about amateur radio, and I just know they will answer this question for
you, but I don't know about it myself.
Betty
While there such a thing as amateur packet radio for data communications, I
know of know way for you to access CIS through that network. In any case,
you would need an amateur radio license to use packet radio. For more
info, try the hamnet forum.
Jim Maurer
PS: I sure hope you're using Whap!
Ruben,
Even if it was physically possible for you to connect to CIS via amateur
radio, doing so would be illegal for at least two reasons.
– CIS is a commercial service, and thus can not be directly tied to
amateur
radio
– Third party traffic being sent (this alone could be illegal between US
and
Argentina – I am not sure on who has third party agreements to who any
more)
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73, Kelly