Roberto
Well-known member
Following my former post
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2720980
I am happy to say that we quite possibly are the first boat to have crossed the Atlantic with daily HF radio Email coverage *without* a Pactor modem, just with the PC and sound card, by using the Winmor protocol. We went from Banjul, Gambia to Salvador, Brazil.
We could send our daily position to our site:
http://www.winlink.org/dotnet/maps/PositionReportsDetail.aspx?callsign=M0ITA
we could also retrieve GRIB files, text weather bulletins, send a few updates to our blog and also getting medical advice via email from CIRM.
Coastal stations servers were from 6500 to 8500km away, we had a few hour period to connect every day.
For the moment Winmor is only available to licensed radio amateur, but as it looks formibably promising, cheap and easy to setup I think sooner or later it will eventually become available to Sailmail users too ?
roberto
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2720980
I am happy to say that we quite possibly are the first boat to have crossed the Atlantic with daily HF radio Email coverage *without* a Pactor modem, just with the PC and sound card, by using the Winmor protocol. We went from Banjul, Gambia to Salvador, Brazil.
We could send our daily position to our site:
http://www.winlink.org/dotnet/maps/PositionReportsDetail.aspx?callsign=M0ITA
we could also retrieve GRIB files, text weather bulletins, send a few updates to our blog and also getting medical advice via email from CIRM.
Coastal stations servers were from 6500 to 8500km away, we had a few hour period to connect every day.
For the moment Winmor is only available to licensed radio amateur, but as it looks formibably promising, cheap and easy to setup I think sooner or later it will eventually become available to Sailmail users too ?
roberto