{"id":1024,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2009-04-14T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T13:38:01","slug":"c_central-faqs-faq_communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/c_central-faqs-faq_communicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">A technical question: With AT&amp;T going out of the high seas phone business, what would you recommend for someone heading offshore for e-mail and voice transmission? My friend&#8230;is taking his Swan 47 into the Pacific and is interested in your answer, as am I (more generally). Regards, John <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> Hi John: We have a Trimble Sat C and found it much better than SSB or ham which I don&#8217;t have the patience for in my old age. Offshore Communications offers automatic (free) high seas weather four times a day for your region (which it knows from the built-in GPS). You can set it to send an automatic position report at whatever intervals desired (sends Lat.\/LON.\/Speed\/Heading at a cost of about 25 cents\/message&#8211;we typically set ours for 4x\/day). We did a lot of communication with daughters\/dad, etc. and our costs ran $200\/mo. Lots of shorthand as you pay by the character, about 75 cents per 100 characters. Totally automatic, no band conditions to worry about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> Otherwise, ham patches for non-business is still a good system. But you do have to deal with propagation and it takes a lot of time and energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical question: With AT&amp;T going out of the high seas phone business, what would you recommend for someone heading <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/c_central-faqs-faq_communicate\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}