Sending a text message to an Iridium service
Submitted: Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 15:18
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George_M
I have a Motorola 9505A, in which I put my NextG sim. So far so good.
How do I send a text message to this service?
The manual gives an Iridium website (
http://messaging.iridium.com/), with a pre-formatted "8816" prefix for the service number. When I key in my NextG number however there are two characters too few in the data entry line. If I use my full national number without the "8816" prefix I get an error message.
What am I doing wrong?
George_M
Reply By: Member - John H (WA) - Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 16:43
Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 16:43
I've got the same sat phone, but still using my GSM card in it (not a NextG card).
Are you trying to send an SMS to your sat phone, or send an SMS from your sat phone to another mobile ?
To send a message to my sat phone - ie: to
test it out, I just send the message to my normal 0401...... mobile number.
To send a message out from my sat phone, I have to use the international dialling prefixes that leave off the leading zero from the number of the moble I'm sending the mesage to.
ie: 0011 61 401.... if the mobile is an 0401.... number.
As said though, that's using my GSM card.
Hopefully the info helps a bit................
John
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Follow Up By: George_M - Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 18:18
Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 18:18
Ahhh bugger! Just tried that, thanks
John - didn't work.
I'm trying to send a text message to my satphone from, in this case, my wife's mobile phone.
What is interesting is that the text message was received neither by the satphone service (I left it registered on the Iridium network for about 20 minutes) nor my mobile phone service (when I put the sim back in).
Thanks again.
George
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