- Re: Phone advice

- Re: Phone advice

- Re: weather fax

- S5 to Asus Eee in 11 years

- Sharp Zaurus

- re: Fax and RTTY for 5MX

- Re: Phone advice

Date: 6 Aug 2008 21:27:51 +0000
From: Alastair Wiggins <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Phone advice

Bob,

I am a fellow Aussie and often travel to Europe on business. The worst thing you can do is allow your "roaming" Aussie mobile to accept incoming calls. The way the GSM system works is that you pay for the call from Australia to wherever you are at roaming rates - not the person calling you (they only get charged standard national mobile rates).

The best way to work is divert all incoming calls to your voicemail and call the person back (if it is important enough). I am with Telstra and their roaming rates are not that bad. Put it this way, you aren't paying that much more when roaming for data access then you do when in Oz. If you ring up your Aussie mobile provider before leaving and tell them which countries you are visiting, they should be able to tell you which is the cheapest network to select in a particular country, i.e. don't just let your phone automatically select a provider.

Have a great trip,

Alastair

Date: 6 Aug 2008 21:41:15 +0000
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Phone advice

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Studio 70 wrote:

> 2. Free WiFi hot spots seem to becoming less of a feature "down under" than > when first started, now in Aus and NZ there are WiFi hot spots but you need > to be a subscriber to the National Internet Service Provider ie Telstra or > Bigpond. To gain access with your pass word. Can you recommend an ISP that > one can subscribe to for only a couple of months that will cover all the
> above countries?  (Most time will be spent in Northern Italy and Southern
> France.) 

OPTION 1:
You may want to check out fon.com - its a community of like-minded individuals that provide free/v. lowcost WiFi access in many countries to registered users. They have maps to help you find local FON access points.

OPTION 2:
I signed up with Boingo and used them when travelling in Spain last year. They also have cheap plans specifically geared towards phones and web
tablets (i.e. Nokia N810). You can do searches on their web site and find access points in most cities.

Aj.

Date: 6 Aug 2008 22:10:54 +0000
From: Armin Podtschaske <address truncated>
Subject: Re: weather fax

Hi John,

> I am more interested in decoding weather charts and telex weather reports from HF radio. > There are programs for Windows ME and Linux but I cannot find one for EPOC.

Do you know Owen H. Morgan? He was a very activ member on this list until he unsubscribed, when he started is atlantic crossing in his sailing boat. His boat sank after beeing struck by another ship in the middle of the ocean. Luckyly he was rescued and got a new boat in the caribic. After that I never heared from him. He was using a Psion 5 for almost everything possible, but not for weatherfax. For weatherfax he hused an HP LX200 with a DOS program.
His old website is still online and there is an article in a pdf-file describing his hard- and software.
http://pagina.de/naomi.jhttp://home.no.net/naomij/files/weatherfax.pdf(586kb)

I tried to use it, but the hamcom modem from this document did not work for me.

Psee you, Armin Podtschaske

Date: 7 Aug 2008 01:13:23 +0000
From: Paul Bishop <address truncated>
Subject: S5 to Asus Eee in 11 years

It's been eleven years since my first S5 (July 1997) and I finally found a 
replacement in the Asus Eee 901 (Linux).

It doesn't synchronize like the Psion and lacks the DATA program, but has 
WiFi b,g and n, plus Bluetooth and is almost as portable.  Since I type  quite a bit, I can say that the keyboard is much better than the S5, though the  OS doesn't appear as robust as EPOC (a couple of glitches already).

On the plus side it will accept files from Windows without the need for 
conversion and can't really be compared to the S5 - it's a netbook, not a PDA - 
but it does well what the S5 tried to do.
- brilliant colour screen
- flawless web browsing and e-mail
- 20 Gig hard drive (flash)
- ~7 hours battery life
How many other readers have used the Eee - what are your impressions?

Paul Bishop

Date: 7 Aug 2008 11:11:53 +0000
From: Alberto Sousa Soares <address truncated>
Subject: Sharp Zaurus

I'm sorry if this is not a very actual theme for this forum.



I just bought a Sharp Zaurus 5800fx through Ebay. I'd like to ask if any
member from this forum has one of those machines and can indicate me
where I can get some software for this machine and other accessories.



Thanks

Alberto

Date: 7 Aug 2008 12:21:51 +0000
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: re: Fax and RTTY for 5MX

John Spillett <address truncated> wrote at  5 Aug 2008 22:59:30 +0000 in The Digest V1 # 1260

> I am more interested in decoding
> weather charts and telex weather reports from HF
> radio . There are programs for Windows ME and
> Linux but I cannot find one for EPOC.

Hi John,
years ago we had a sailor in the group who knew everything (well, almost) about your question.

His name is Owen Morgan and he still has an active website.
On http://home.no.net/naomij/computing.htmlhe offers an article about "weatherfax on the cheap" with a lot of nice details and dedicated links, but he is using a DOS machine HP200LX, not EPOC. Try to contact him, he might know more than what the website says.

Good Luck, and consider a post here about the outcome.
You could as well search in the old archives from The Digest. I remember posts here on this topic, but I do not remember EPOC weather fax software.
--
With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
http://psion.uh-lab.deFor spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ("send to a friend" or similar).
Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)

Date: 7 Aug 2008 12:21:56 +0000
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Phone advice

Studio 70 <address truncated> wrote at  6 Aug 2008 00:01:39 +0000 in The Digest V1 # 1260

> 1 Can anyone suggest a prepaid sim card or cards
> that will best serve my
> purpose while traveling in these different
> countries  i.e. CH, IT NL, UK and
> F .
...
> But for tracking down accommodation, calling
> friends in EU GPS, Wi Fi  etc
> I'll use the E90 with a new prepaid sim card.
> (Hopefully recommended by you)
> 
> Bob and Loris Hancock
> beside beautiful Currumbin Beach
> On the sunny Gold Coast of Queensland
> you are welcome to visit Loris' home page at
> www.lorishancock.com 

Hi Bob,
Itamar gave a good description of the EU situation regarding mobile communication.

The best thing to to could be: buy one of the prepaid cards for the country where you stay a little longer. In Germany we have offers on cards for 9,95 Euros including 5 or even 9,95 Eu worth of phone time. From congstar and phonic or similar. All calls to mobile and fixed lines within Germany are charged 9 ct/min only.

Eventually, readers from France can help with details there.

In countries where you are only a few days there is probably no choice except expensive roaming or wifi.
--
With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
http://psion.uh-lab.deFor spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ("send to a friend" or similar).
Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)