Satphone/VKS update

Sounds good Willem,no connection is a bonus, with all the remote traveling you do if you ever have to use and touch wood you NEVER have to, it's money well spent, one day i'll get one !! Have ya called anyone yet to test it out ??

Cheers Willem, Baz.

At 68 years I hate to think that a lot of people who never bother to call me would all have to get dressed up & listen to a sermon as unbelievers near a 6 foot hole
after having travelled a few thousand kilometres to be there. Wonder of they would anyway.
The point of this is that someone closer to me heart than anyone else recently sold his trail bike on the advice of his young son who had stopped using it in case of injury jeopardising his footy career. As it was unreg & uninsur & unlicensed he gave sage like advice for one so young (17).
After a few solo falls on some VERY rocky places the 68yo took his advice.
This will not stop me/him going for steep walks alone when necessary or solo across the Simpson.
If my epirb wont save me it will save on funeral exes & I hope to being leaving northbound rather than south when I do!
You can only do your own best risk assesment & you may well be wrong as you dont know when U may be stricken & U may never be so go for it I say & work out your own limits without being too rash about it.

Willem....... I am a little lost here.......

I am led to believe we have 2 satelite systems, Iridium & something else???

Is the Iridium system still a viable system? I thought I had read somewhere that it had failed to attract enough subscribers to warrant ongoing viability or something, obviously this is not the case, or have they let out more bandwidth to resellers......

Based on the sign up with Telstra, seems you have struck a good deal. Tell me, the $10.00 @ month of calls, can that be one 8 minute call, or multiples theroff?

How much per minute thereafter?

How much would it cost me to ring you?

Is the system data capable......ie email?

I'm all jealous now, going to have to think of a good story to tell Tracy so she'll let me buy one....... "oh look love.......you can ring your Mum any time you want........"

Cheers

Ian BEE

Hiya Willem
Good to see you got the high tech thingy sorted out.

The guy would have rang Telstra Sat Service the call is free, you can call them yourself also No is 125 135 its free call from your sat phone at anytime even in an emergency without your sim card you can also call 000 works the same.

What happened to the GSM sim with international roam ?

HF is a good jigger of a thing to have also but the sat phone is very convenient, as you say it is nice to call home and let the better half know where you are and that everything is good with you. (It keeps them happy)
My mum is a bit of a worrier so I call her to let her know we are OK.

My kids get a big kick out of ringing their nana from far of distance places, Like Hi nana we are at Haddons corner, just good fun.

Take care

Kind Regards
John

Hmmmm a sat phone , another add to the wish list I think . Thanks Willam

You'll have to take a phone book, 1 of each State? so you'll know what phone number to ring to tell person where you and that orange truck need to be collected from....if and when it ever breaks down

All you need now Willem is that new truck u been looking for to go with the new phone.