Packet in Africa?

[Lloyd Blythen]

Can anyone please comment, or point me toward information, on amateur
packet access in Africa? I'm particularly interested in Sudan, Ethiopia,
the east-coast nations, and southern nations apart from South Africa. I
hope to be on the continent in 1998 and will need a packet connection
but I'm unlikely to be in an urban region, so satellite or HF systems
may make some sense. My transmit power may be limited. Any information
or tips on cross-licensing agreements between African countries and ZL
will also be of interest.

TIA

Lloyd

[Douglas Stockman]

Greetings,

I just retuned from Ghana, West Africa where my wife and I lived for two
years in a rural village. There was nothing around us so we stayed in touch
with the world by using the 9600 birds - particularly KO-23. HF packet may
have been cheaper, but given the solar cycle, I worried about HF's
reliability. Amateur operators in the U.S. transfered email from family for
us. It worked out great. BTW, we powered everything by a solar
(photovoltaic) system. Let me know if you want more info. Good luck.

Douglas Stockman
ds...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

[Steve Stroh]

Your best bet would probably be to access a number of the "flying mailbox"
PacSats that fly over each point on the globe twice a day. It's
sufficient to relay BBS messages back and forth. You'll probably find
some useful info at http://www.amsat.org.

Steve N8GNJ

--
Steve Stroh Woodinville, Washington, USA str...@halcyon.com

[David Woolley]

In article <1996Dec30.1...@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,

>reliability. Amateur operators in the U.S. transfered email from family for
>us.

Unfortunately, that's not legal on the UK licence.
--
David Woolley, London, England da...@djwhome.demon.co.uk
(Sending any email to this site constitutes a licence to copy it to any
company which might reasonably be assumed to have transported it or
might reasonably be assumed to service any addresses quoted in it. 15Sep1996)