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.

On Sep 6, 9:24 am, Justin C wrote:
....
I looked at Sailmail, looks complicated, and what sort of range do you
get? ...

From time to time HF radio signals travel right around the world. In
practice sailmail and winlink have worldwide coverage and with voice
nets with relays it is unusual to drop a boat with working gear during
a scheduled net. I would be nice if the guy who gives us the airmail
software would port it to *nix but since he does the work for free in
his spare time it is hard to complain.

-- Tom.

On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:24:44 -0000, Justin C
wrote:

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.

Like all HF radio it depends on the sun spot cycle, conditions in the
ionosphere and time of day. Typically 1,000 to 2,000 miles is quite
doable with a little patience, sometimes a great deal more.

AFAIK the Winlink and Sailmail clients are Windows only, not that bad
in my experience. I use Win2K on all my boat laptops and they never
crash.