Sat phone reception?

I used to be with globalstar, but they got progressively worse. Every year they said they were putting up new satellites and each year came and went and no new satellites.

I'm with Iridium now. Pretty good. But I've got a full car kit. I didn't go through telstra.

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Originally Posted by leeds

Talking of sat phones, what sat phone set up would people actually recommend for use in the outback.

Will be travelling in the outback for about 6 months and want it primarily for emergency use and the occassional call back to the UK

Sorry if this is considered to be hijacking

Regards


Brendan

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2 jam tins & a length of string would work better than my global star

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Originally Posted by Jamo

I used to be with globalstar, but they got progressively worse. Every year they said they were putting up new satellites and each year came and went and no new satellites.

I'm with Iridium now. Pretty good. But I've got a full car kit. I didn't go through telstra.

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Bearing in mind the discussions about the GSM SIM in the thread, don't suppose you have a Tesltra SIM you can try in it, do you?

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Originally Posted by Ian

2 jam tins & a length of string would work better than my global star

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yeh but its hard to keep the string tight, which means that quite often the other person on the end doesn't come through very clear:(

you could always try a pigeon only problem i can for see with this is if your wanting to call the uk the pigeon probably wont make it much further than yagoona in sydney......




as thats where they all are!!!!......... eating the dog food at the rspca:eek:

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Originally Posted by dullbird

yeh but its hard to keep the string tight, which means that quite often the other person on the end doesn't come through very clear:(

you could always try a pigeon only problem i can for see with this is if your wanting to call the uk the pigeon probably wont make it much further than yagoona in sydney......




as thats where they all are!!!!......... eating the dog food at the rspca:eek:

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I d end up with a dislexic one:( still probably more reliable than globalstar;)

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Originally Posted by Ian

2 jam tins & a length of string would work better than my global star

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Nah, that's a snatch strap, but it'll probably do the trick.

:p:D

Cheers
Simon

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Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Nah, that's a snatch strap, but it'll probably do the trick.

:p:D

Cheers
Simon

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Need damn big jam tins though:o

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Originally Posted by Ian

Need damn big jam tins though:o

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Jam tin
Jap tin
Jap tan
Jap can
Jap car

Yeah, like that bogged one over there!!
;)

Mmm, think I'll just shell out for Codan-Barrett...
Mike

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Originally Posted by jik22

Bearing in mind the discussions about the GSM SIM in the thread, don't suppose you have a Tesltra SIM you can try in it, do you?

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I tried my cdma sim card in an iridium sat phone with no problems. I had global roaming enabled for the cdma phone beforehand. The call was charged to my cdma phone bill at a higher rate.

I have not tried my nextg sim card yet. I remember seeing tables of Telstra call rates that specifically list the charges when a nextg sim is used in an iridium phone - so I think that is a given.

I intend to buy an iridium phone before my next simpson trip in july (I have hired in the past). Because I would only have the sat phone for occasional use, I don't want a plan with monthly charges, so will use the nextg sim card.