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Originally Posted by Macblaze
+1 for Farkwar
We also do it by email. It can also be fussy about how the coordinates are entered. I've had some issues with spaces as I grab mine off an iPhone app called MYGPS oordinates rather than transcribe them by hand. Here is our email template using a slightly different nomenclature.
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You provide a better example, MacBlaze...
I didn't think to include a sample with the
Destination syntax...
I agree the position coordinates and those 5 dashes are the components that most often break the syntax from our experience... [We call it shooting blanks since no position report is posted on Farkwar because it cannot parse our incorrectly formatted email.]
Our coordinates are copied from
OpenCPN on a
laptop computer, and fortunately that works. [so far...]
Because we have broken our own reports on occasion, I subscribed our email address to our own
boat ['Follow'] so we receive a confirmation email that a new position has been reported. [Cross-check...] When we are on sat mail, I don't download the email; the header is enough confirmation... This works well for us when we are away from the internets for periods of time...
Cheers! Bill