Web entry of positions

Once you have registered, you use inputpos.cgi to enter your position. The position may be expresssed as either a lat/lon or 6 letter grid square. Lat/lon is negative in western and southern hemispheres.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/inputpos.cgi?call=k4hg&passwd=xyzzy&lat=24.5&lon=-81.2

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/inputpos.cgi?call=k4hg&passwd=xyzzy&grid=el94gp

in addition, course, speed, and altitude may be added:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/inputpos.cgi?call=k4hg&passwd=xyzzy&grid=el94gp&speed=123&course=359&alt=10000

You can also email your reports. You should send them to posit@findu.com, and in the body place the same format of data described above (everything after the ? in the above URLs). A message announcing success or failure will be immediately returned to you.

In the future there may be the ability to enter weather and other information via these methods. Stay tuned for further details...