Where is Kind of Magic? Regular Position Reports

*******    Report #15:   April 10, 2014 to May 28, 2014 - Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico and the USVI  posted May 29, 2014, link is to the right. *******


We are not so great at keeping the Reports up to date, preferring to do one report about every month (or two when we are having too much fun!)

However, every time we change anchorages and move the boat we post a Position Report via our SSB (single side band) radio or when we have internet.  We do this via the Winlink network (run by Ham radio operators for Hams) under our call sign ve0bg (the 0 is the number not letter.)

We have posted a link to our Position Reports on www.shiptrak.org and by entering our call sign (ve0bg) our list of past positions and our current position is posted.  At the bottom is the log entries which are limited to 80 characters (Tweets are verbose!)

HOWEVER, we have been advised Shiptrak recently has been having problems (the problems are on that end not ours.)  Thanks to our guru Ross, I have found out Winlink has a mirror site:
http://www2.winlink.org:8081/maps/PositionReports.aspx
and I have changed the link at the right on the blog to that site until Shiptrak sorts it all out.

This page lists ALL of the winlink ham members who have posted position reports in the past number of days (including us.)  By entering our call sign (ve0bg, "0" being the number 0) in the top left corner all our past positions and our current position are reported.  Holding the cursor over any position reveals our 80 character position report for that entry.  ALSO, the map can be changed to satellite imagery and by drilling down a very good picture of our position can be seen.  That's us waving!