In article . li,
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Don't people who actually need it (rather than just like listening to
it) get it via a kind of on-ship fax gadget these days?

I've needed it while on board a sailing boat with nothing more
sophisticated than GPS, VHF, and an FM radio (well, and three smartphones
- all out of range of their networks). Alone, wedged against the tiller,
hunched over the endpaper of a novel in the freezing dead of night armed
only with a pencil and the ability to recognise 'Sailing By'.

If only Arthur Ransom were alive now.

Nick
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