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Also I have the hotspot not the sleeve
Sleeve risk is you’ll change your phone and it won’t fit!!!
Other benefits of hot spot
If it’s 35 degrees and your hiding back in the tree line you can have the hotspot set up pointing north to clear air away from trees but be well away in the shade to deal with whatever...
The battery in the hotspot last forever! Well almost.
Hotspot has an emergency call button so it can be used standalone if needed?
Oh and all the millennials I work with could never be 5 days from a latte walking through the scrub fishing for Barra !
Self limiting population
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You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
no, All the Satphones I've used take full size sim cards, you need to put the simcard in an adaptor , Any $2 sim from Aldi etc comes with the adaptor for free, just press it out of the simcard holder and place your micro sim in it. Note the Telstra hack only works with Post Paid Telstra sim , not Telstra Pre paid cards, nor post paid cards from any other carrier.
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
Trout
Just make sure you have global roaming activated on your Telstra account
But yes that works for post paid Telstra and those old sat phones
Only hassle is the change over of sim
And that people calling you get pinged high call costs
On the Thuraya $15 Optus plan
Calls/txt to the sat phone are just considered normal mobile so for most people that’s free to call
Makes it cheap when wanting to touch base with home
Sat call to home mobile - hang up after a few rings
Home mobile calls back
Free sat comms
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I only intend to use the sat phone in an emergency/life threatening situation where I cant get comms on my phone or UHF/VHF radio so the call costs are irrelevant.
Not having to have a separate "Plan" for the sat phone for this type of usage is a "No Brainer" and is the way to go in my opinion.
If I want to "Touch base" with home I wait until I can get reception on my normal mobile anyway and you only need to be close to a town or minesite to do this
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
Of course you can always send tex / sms on a sat phone , lets people at home know your OK, no need at all for any actual call rates unless you in an Emergency , then it does not matter what the cost.
Pivotel also have a $15 Casual plan for the Thuraya Phone / sleeve / hotspot .
its $40 for the first month (includes activation) $15 thereafter . This is the one I'm on . cheap enough to keep active even if your at home.
I have carried an Iridium sat phone for many years - I'm on my 3rd!
I have used it across northern Australia to get the weather and submit flight plans - never had a problem getting through.
More recently I have used it in the Gulf of Carpentaria to have a conversation with a technician to reset the auto-deploy trolling motor on my boat. Technician in Brisbane, "Where are you guys"? Me, "50 km north of Boroloola out in the Gulf"!
We also use it regularly to send SMS to family to tell them that we are OK when fishing in remote places - or to give a fishing score. I think it 50c to send an SMS.
Haven't yet had to use it in any sort of emergency situation - but its a "nice to have" item for what we choose to do!
I think that I will give the irridium idea the flick and go with the Thursday phone
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
It’s not a hack, Telstra here are very open about telling people about it.
We went with Thuraya initially and it was so touch and go for coverage we dropped it. Being geostationary if you’re in a dead zone you will always be.
Switched to Iridium and it was an improvement although could still be flaky.
Thuraya also struggles in Southern Australia.
The best performance I’ve seen is Inmarsat, excellent coverage except in Antartica or the Arctic.
Addition: If you are in a shadow you need to move.
With Iridium, if you don’t have signal just wait a bit and you’ll be good.
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