I have spoked to cruising hams that report their position over APRS using their HF radios and their SCS Pactor modems.

The software they use is http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/ APRSISCE and it is windows software but the web sit says it works under wine.

They say they can also use the Robust Packet Network to connect to APRS. If you look on the http://robust-packet.net/ RPN website you can see a couple of yachts that have used the system in the last few days in Europe. Bob Smith says (on the Facebook group Offshore SSB Radio and Email) he sent 10MHz APRS/RPN position reports all through the night at sea.

So has anyone tried APRSISCE under WIne on Navigatrix? Or is there native Linux software that does the same. Or are you hard-core and just open up a terminal and send commands to the modem directly (mine does APRS automatically that way)

That's pretty neat. I will take a closer look to it as soon as I recover from broken leg. I will also include it into the next navigatrix update.

Thanks David. Hope your leg heals quickly. I will have a go myself running under wine. I expect there might be some fiddling to do to get the GPS data under Wine. In AirMail its a bit of a fudge and does not update as the program runs.

There is a help for Wine/Linux here http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:linux

I just tried running iton my Ubuntu (not navigatrix) laptop and the exe just ran under Wine with the internet working. It says it can get NMEA over TCP/IP

Menu hep here
http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/port:nema
...so I am hoping this will be able to get data from gpsd for position. For connecting to Pactor I expect if I look up the port on AirMail that will work.