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"Justin C" wrote
hmmm.... not enough profit in the product to afford the hardware and bandwidth needed when family and friends of their customers want to use the exact service they're selling? No, it's a large company with a lot of resources. The tracking is a non-critical service to let a larger group of people follow your route. Email OK, Help, and 911 messages, which also have position information, are still active. I'm not aware of any outages all summer. It was down Memorial Day weekend, probably for last minute tuning. They then seemed to wait until the main part of the boating and hiking season was over before doing more maintenance. The page is up again and seems to show S&L anchored off the breakwater but I don't think it's updating yet because my page does not show the sail I took yesterday. -- Roger Long |
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In article , Roger Long wrote:
"Justin C" wrote hmmm.... not enough profit in the product to afford the hardware and bandwidth needed when family and friends of their customers want to use the exact service they're selling? No, it's a large company with a lot of resources. The tracking is a non-critical service to let a larger group of people follow your route. Email OK, Help, and 911 messages, which also have position information, are still active. I'm not aware of any outages all summer. It was down Memorial Day weekend, probably for last minute tuning. They then seemed to wait until the main part of the boating and hiking season was over before doing more maintenance. The page is up again and seems to show S&L anchored off the breakwater but I don't think it's updating yet because my page does not show the sail I took yesterday. Fair enough, it was just a guess. I do like the look of the product though. Saving one the necessity of telephoning a whole bunch of concerned people each time you touch land. I'm pretty sure I'll get one... when I get a boat. For now I'll just enjoy the cruising life through the likes of Skip, Lydia, Zac, and anyone else who's out there. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
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"Justin C" wrote in message ... In article , Roger Long wrote: "Justin C" wrote hmmm.... not enough profit in the product to afford the hardware and bandwidth needed when family and friends of their customers want to use the exact service they're selling? No, it's a large company with a lot of resources. The tracking is a non-critical service to let a larger group of people follow your route. Email OK, Help, and 911 messages, which also have position information, are still active. I'm not aware of any outages all summer. It was down Memorial Day weekend, probably for last minute tuning. They then seemed to wait until the main part of the boating and hiking season was over before doing more maintenance. The page is up again and seems to show S&L anchored off the breakwater but I don't think it's updating yet because my page does not show the sail I took yesterday. Fair enough, it was just a guess. I do like the look of the product though. Saving one the necessity of telephoning a whole bunch of concerned people each time you touch land. I'm pretty sure I'll get one... when I get a boat. For now I'll just enjoy the cruising life through the likes of Skip, Lydia, Zac, and anyone else who's out there. Thank you. Wilbur Hubbard |
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I think Justin meant vicariously enjoying real cruises. We all know you are
"out there" but I think he meant it in the nautical sense. -- Roger Long |
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On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:41:04 -0000, Justin C
wrote: Fair enough, it was just a guess. I do like the look of the product though. Saving one the necessity of telephoning a whole bunch of concerned people each time you touch land. I'm pretty sure I'll get one... when I get a boat. For now I'll just enjoy the cruising life through the likes of Skip, Lydia, Zac, and anyone else who's out there. 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. |
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"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. No SSB in my plans. I cruise to get away and be out of touch. The thing I like about the SPOT is that it lets friends and family ashore share in the adventure somewhat and remain reassured and gives me emergency communications without the expense, cost, and space of a radio rig which is more of an issue on my small 32 footer than most cruising craft. Living aboard, I probably would feel differently but I cruise for short enough periods that I don't want anyone to be able to contact me. -- Roger Long |
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In article , Roger Long wrote:
I think Justin meant vicariously enjoying real cruises. We all know you are "out there" but I think he meant it in the nautical sense. Correctly spotted, Roger. I must try and re-read what I type before I send it, to ensure I am expressing what I am meaning. Damn, I wish they taught English better in this damn country[1]. .... I wish they better taught English in this damned country... maybe, I dunno.... I wish they taught better English? Aaaarggghh!!!! Justin. 1. England. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
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In article , Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:41:04 -0000, Justin C wrote: Fair enough, it was just a guess. I do like the look of the product though. Saving one the necessity of telephoning a whole bunch of concerned people each time you touch land. I'm pretty sure I'll get one... when I get a boat. For now I'll just enjoy the cruising life through the likes of Skip, Lydia, Zac, and anyone else who's out there. 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. Like Roger said, that map is enough to give you a headache... until it's downloaded all the dots (why does it take so long?!). I looked at Sailmail, looks complicated, and what sort of range do you get? Major down-side for both Winlink and Sailmail for me a Windows. Been using it since version 3, and I will not have it installed on anything I own. Any software has to be either OS X or Linux/BSD compatible or I'm not interested. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:57:48 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote: I think Justin meant vicariously enjoying real cruises. We all know you are "out there" but I think he meant it in the nautical sense. good one. |
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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. |
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