[donalphilby]

thanks for the info on GMN XGate. I'll research it some more. The HF network looks very limited. Again, I can't understand why someone would go to all the effort they have and then do such a poor job of explaining themselves to the world. Is it Ham based? Marine HF based? Replaces marine HF ssb? Commercial messages okay or not? Expected coverage area? But the compression software certainly would be valuable for sat phone use. I wonder if it would work on Skymate, or if Skymate's SW is already pretty good. I wish Skymate had SoPac coverage. Much of their business is trucking (tracking loads, email) and remote crews such as mining and drilling. Us cruisers are barely worth servicing they say.

So what is it that it would take to run C-Map on MacENC? I've downloaded it and find it smooth running, a nice piece of work.

Is it just protecting their proprietary SW base? Or something technical that can't be overcome?

donal