Communication
currently in: Charleston, SC

As you probably noticed, the formatting was a bit wonky on the last post; this is because I sent it by email using the Winlink ham radio system, which strips off all the html and imposes its own weird formatting.  Ah, well.  As that's going to be our primary method of posting the blog, expect more weird formatting in the future - sorry about that!  

Right now we're anchored in Charleston, a stone's throw away from the city marina.  The anchorage isn't exactly the best - the first time we were here we had various exciting adventures which neither of us want to repeat, and it took us several tries to get anchored such that we would neither go aground nor hit anything when the current swung us around, but with the WiFi bridge that Britt put together sitting up on deck, we can connect to the marina wireless!

This is a good thing, because the cell phone modem doesn't seem to be working, grr.  That is, it doesn't connect to the dialup ISP that I set up while in Durango.  It worked there; dunno why it doesn't work here, but it doesn't, and that's aggravating.  Unless we can find wireless frequently, we're not going to be able to retrieve our email as often as we though we'd be able to.  But I will be doing the ham radio email regularly from here on out, so if you want to reach us, use my Winlink address: KG4EYP [at-sign] winlink.org.  It's a really low-bandwidth link, so please send only plain text. I'm going to try to set up the blog comments to forward, but I'm not sure I'll be able to, so if you want a quick reply, use the ham email.

- posted by S/V Windom @ 3/20/2007 [link]