On Sep 6, 8:37*am, "Roger Long" wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote

If you have a SSB radio and Pactor modem you can do the same thing via
Sailmail or Winlink. *Winlink requires a ham radio license, Sailmail
does not.

http://tinyurl.com/6jp5qd

Zoom in and point to a red dot for the log entry. *I prefer the
satellite view.

Wayne, is the map in this implementation always so squirrelly? I had to give
up trying to get it to settle down because I was getting a headache watching
it jitter around. *The panning doesn't seem to work properly. *The SPOT maps
work much better.
....

There are a couple of trackers out there for people who are checking
into YOTREPS. You can check in via SSB voice or digital or any kind
of email (a digital sat phone would work). You can see a bit of our
track using AH6QR. Some of the more tech savy folks in my clan follow
us along. But, YOTREPS isn't really a tracking service. Historically
it is a weather reporting service that has developed 'net tracking as
the technology has become available and as volunteers have developed
the apps. Reporting into a net or directly to YOTREPS via email has
some benefits when you are offshore. Apparently Wayne is using it
near shore, too. I can't see any reason not to use it that way, too.
My only concern is that the guy who provides the bandwidth does it for
the wx reporting and I don't know how concerned he is with reports
from places that have fixed wx stations.

The way the map plots the reports is a little goofy with 300 plus
points but once it has finished placing them it seems to work fine for
me even on a slow computer.

-- Tom.