Hi, Dave, and thanks for the note.

"Auspicious" wrote in message
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Skip,

Most blogs provide incredible control over format. Classically
postings are in reverse chronological order so the latest post is
first and immediately apparent. The blog functions as an automatic
archive making what information may be gleaned accessible to those who
come later.

Some blog software, including Wordpress and Movable Type, allow
integration with e-mail so that you can post by e-mailing your content
to a special e-mail address. This is very convenient and allows
posting directly over Winlink or Sailmail. I've set that capability up
a number of times and it is trivial to do. Some people go back and
edit their posts later to add pictures but that isn't necessary.

A link to the blog should show the latest post. Most blog software
also generates a permanent link to each post that provides an enduring
connection to that specific post.

Incidentally, there is no reason you should have to send your posts in
sections over Winlink. I believe the limit on message size is 120 kB
compressed. Text messages compress significantly. Indeed the time it
takes is long for long messages and imposes upon everyone trying to
share the system but breaking your message into pieces doesn't reduce
the total time to transmit.

73 es sail fast, dave KO4MI
S/V Auspicious


I'm in the very early stages of getting to the point of stupid, rather than
totally uninformed. Eventually, if I pursue it, I'll become dangerous, and,
with any luck, able, and perhaps even proficient :{))

The problem in my transmitting what is never more than 20k after compression
is either speed or connectivity or both. Either I can't maintain a
connection, in general, or, Tx is at the low hundreds at best.

When I get a good enough connection that it goes out at anything over 1k,
all is well.

That is, unless the connection deteriorates along the way, starting at mid
thousand, but deteriorating to low hundreds. In those cases, since I'm
unwilling to risk having the entirety go poof, at the cost of all those
amps, let alone my need to babysit it, I break it up, post all the segments
but then unpost all but the next in line, and deal with it like that.

That's about half the time, in my experience. That's even with aborting an
upload very early on if it's slow, looking for a better connection somewhere
else. Frequently that works; propagation makes it such that I might do much
better 1500 miles away than someplace much closer.

So, yes, it doesn't save any time to break it up - other than having to
start over after 25 minutes on a marginal speed and an eventual failure when
there are 100 more bytes to connect, or MUCH more frustrating, they all get
there, but the confirmation never happens, and I have to start over.

Where are you these days?

73s...

L8R

Skip

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