[lsoltero]

Also, I have installed an SSB for SailMail, known as snailmail because it is so slow, have been advised to get a PC-simulator program to run the sailmail software. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? And if I run a windows simulator to do sailmail with, does that help the antenna issue? Thanks. Kathy[color:darkblue][/color]

You could use xnetmail.com instead of Sailmail instead of your HF provider. XGate, which is the e-mail compression software that run over xnetmail, runs natively on the mac. This means that you can use your MacMail e-mail program to read your mail over pactor.

here are some links that describe the service and the software

http://www.xnetmail.com
http://www.globalmarinenet.com/email.htm

--luis