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Stan Honey WA6IVA organized the SailMail Association, obtained the necessary FCC licenses, begged, borrowed, and bought the
necessary equipment, wrote the internet gateway/multiple-station synchronization software, and assembled and installed the
initial SailMail radio stations. Jim Corenman KE6RK wrote the AirMail program that serves as the email client running on PC's
aboard member vessels and also is used at the SailMail stations. Jim and Sue Corenman installed the stations in Rockhill,
Honolulu, Texas, Florida, and Chile. Steve Chamberlin was the first member and user of the SailMail system and helped finance
the founding of the association. Shea Weston of Offshore Outfitters, one of SailMail's most experienced dealers, provides
SailMail's tech support phone and email service (see the Contact-Us page on this site), and maintains SailMail's US stations. Sally
Lindsay Honey, Jo Boynton, and Sue Corenman manage membership registration and help run the network. The current directors
of the SailMail Association are Stan Honey, Jim Corenman, Sally Lindsay Honey, Steve Chamberlin, Sue Corenman, and Shea
Weston.
All users of the SailMail service must join the SailMail Association in order send and receive email via the SailMail system and to
access the stations. The SailMail Association pro-rates the expenses for the email system and station operation among the
members of the Association. The membership assessment is $250 per vessel, per year. This assessment is subject to change in
the future as the number of members, the cost of station operation, and the cost of setting up additional stations vary. Any
membership assessments received by the Association in excess of the funds required will be refunded to the members, pro-rata
to each member's paid-in fee's. The SailMail Stations could not be operating now without support from Chuck Hawley and the Watsonville, Rockhill, Honolulu,
Corpus Christi, South Daytona, and San Diego staffs of West Marine, Shea Weston of Offshore Outfitters, Mark Robinson of
Pactor Communications Australia, Richard Spindler of Latitude 38, Don Melcher of HF Radio On Board, ICOM, Eric Steinberg of
Farallon Electronics, and Martin (DL1ZAM) of SCS Inc. Please take lots of business to these companies in thanks for their
support of SailMail. Many thanks to the operators of overseas stations that handle SailMail traffic: Derek and Jeanine Barnard of Penta Comstat in
NSW Australia, Justice Malanot of Bushmail in South Africa, William Latter of LMR Communications in Lunenburg Nova Scotia,
Allan Riches of Brunei Bay Radio in Brunei Darussalam, Philip Cazaerck in Belgium, Craig Owings commodore of the (late) Pedro
Miguel Boat Club in Panama, Ian and Maggy Staples in Los Lagos Chile, Aaron Hutchinson in Trinidad, Xavier Michel in the
Tuamotus, and Garry Clarke, the NZ Met Service, and the Niue Met Service in support of the station in Niue. We would also like
to thank Mark Robinson who has been instrumental in setting up many of SailMail's international stations.
In addition, a number of others contributed to the effort: Jim Jennings W5EUT, Hans Kessler N8PGR, and Steve Waterman
K4CJX were supportive and their work on Netlink, Winlink, and the Ham networks paved the way for the SailMail Association
system.
SailMail is now a certified application for the new Iridium GO!
The GO! is a small Wi-Fi "hotspot" that provides voice telephone service via a Wi-Fi connected smart-phone, and data access to
certified apps including SailMail with less expensive data rates. This expands SailMail's seamless service via radio, satellite and
land-based internet to the Iridium GO!, with no setup required. The Iridium GO! is supported by the new Airmail 3.5 release,
available at http://siriuscyber.net/sailmail/#iridiumgo For more information see www.saildocs.com/IridiumGo and see the videos
at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS4ogX03LnIRN7T6zq3q_8w/videos
What are the advantages of using the SailMail email system and AirMail software via my
Iridium, Inmarsat, KVH/V3, Globalstar, or Thuraya system?
SailMail's email system implements a communications protocol that is optimized for low-bandwidth and high-latency
communications systems. Satellite and SSB-Pactor communications both have these characteristics. The SailMail protocol
minimizes the number of link-turn-arounds, provides virus/spam/attachment filtering, and compresses the data. The result of
this processing is a dramatic increase in the efficiency of email communications over satellite. The SailMail protocol can transfer
about 10 times the email messages in the same satellite time as can a conventional pop3/smtp communications protocol.
The use of the SailMail email system over satellite is seamless with email communications using SailMail's worldwide network of
SSB-Pactor radio stations. This means that you can pick up or send messages to or from your SailMail email address via any of
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