Ah duh... Footy strikes again.

LOL nighty night Footy. I think it's past your bedtime mate, it's getting close to mine anyway :)))))

regards

Just as well you aren't shy 'Loosie, you may have got a complex from that one ;-)

I guess even that would sink in with a 4 pound hammer. LOL

Hi Footloose
Knowing of your 'obsession' of HF- I'm wondering if you have to go to confession now- and make admssion to the Codan forum that you have been gotten at by the Satphone devil??
Maybe you'll have to say3 ohms law and play with your resistor and capacitor rosemary beads??

Hi Footloose,

Just make sure you check on who gets charged for phoning your satphone. If the caller does, it can be over $10 per minute, that is right. Iprimus charge over $10 per minute to ring a satellite phone....a rip off in my book, but apparently other carriers charge the same.

Cheers

Glenn

The way I would prefer to use a sat phone for emergencies is to call a trusted and capable friend or relative and give them my exact position and precise details of what was wrong and exactly what I wanted to do about it and leave them to make all necessary calls and arrangements and then phone me after they had done that to let me know what was happening. This reduces the possibility of dead batteries in the sat phone (serious issue if you can't start your vehicle to charge them, maybe?) and of me running up $300 in sat phone charges whilst I listen to "Press 1 for..." and then get put on hold for 10 minutes. Additionally it means that even if the sat phone dies someone, trusted, now has all the necessary information to alert search and rescue if they feel it’s necessary.

I would still ensure I had significant numbers in paper format with the sat phone.

Mike Harding

Which system (Iridium/Globalstar) and which Service Provider are you using.

Mike

goodday footy
did you qualify for the rebate subsidy just having a look at the forms and they dont say much??
steve