Stephen has done some more technical ferreting and has provided me with a method of updating the blog directly from Pachuca via Sailmail. The updates from sea will still be restricted to text as they were on the passage from Hawaii.
This is my first direct blog update from Pachuca.
A tip for long-distance sailors: have someone ashore to provide technical support. I suspect that most modern cruising boats could use a Stephen.
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radio email processed by SailMail
for information see: http://www.sailmail.com
1 comment:
looks like you can send weather fax attachments through the sailmail system as well
--- from their site "Can I receive ".BZ2" files from MaxSea?
Can I receive ".gfcst" or ".fcst" files from MovingWeather?
Several companies sell for-fee subscription services that can email grib files or other weather files (e.g. MaxSea, MovingWeather, and Ocens). Note, however, that grib files have to be attached to an email, they have to have the ".grb" or ".grib" file extension, and they have to be less than 30kBytes in length in order to be sent via SailMail via Pactor-III (or 15kBytes in length if sent via Pactor-II).
The MaxSea grib server sends pre-compressed grib files with a ".BZ2" file extension. ".BZ2" files can be handled by SailMail only if they are less than 5kBytes in length if sent by Pactor-II or if less than 15kBytes in length if sent by Pactor-III. The reduced file length relative to ".grb" formatted files is because ".bz2" files are pre-compressed and therefore take twice as long to send via SailMail because SailMail's own compression system cannot further compress them.
MovingWeather provides weather data in either ".fcst" or in a compressed ".gfcst" format. The SailMail system will pass ".fcst" files that are less than 10kBytes in length via Pactor-II or 30kBytes in length via Pactor-III. Because the ".gfcst" files are pre-compressed they SailMail system can only pass ".gfcst" files that are 5kBytes in length via Pactor-II or 15kBytes in length via Pactor-III."
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