popeye
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Ragnar406
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Tagging @ohanacreek for his knowledge and experience on Sat phones - he has spoken about on here before and carry's one on the trail
popeye
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Deep woods communication, during an emergency for life flight out, worst case scenario. The money isn’t a big deal if it ends up saving a life.
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ohanacreek
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PM me your number I’m about to be on the road for a bit.
CumminsPusher
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Yep he’s why we got ours. Works great it’s always in glove box
Mudder
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Similar reason I got a ham radio, but guess it depends on coverage area. Sat phones are nice, would be interested in what some current costs are. Iridium had a free number you could use for a test call. Thx.
CumminsPusher
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Paying 61/month for 1year but that plan comes with phone. Great insurance to have.
Next week my wife and daughter will be driving a questionable borrowed rig deep into the woods 2 days before me, it’s made for those type of things lol
Hopefully we can say it’s never been needed but it’s therein case
ohanacreek
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I CALLED in and spoke with a human, Paid $49 for phone/shipping/activation, the cost and shipping varied with the mins package you signed up for.
My year is almost up and I have 338mins built up, I’ll back the package down and keep rollover.
We used it this week 2 days when we went diving to let grandparents know we were headed back in and where to meet us for dinner with the kiddo. I’ve used it some in TN to check in to make sure everything was good at home and I let my FIL use it when they went to Dominica on vacation.
You can get a domestic # for $10/mo or most domestic cell providers charge $10/mo to receive SAT phone #’s. I may get a domestic number if we start using it more.
I had a Garmin inReach it it was $74/mo and the texts took about 10mins for a send and receive. It was WAY to slow. Phone is phone there’s maybe ½ second lag in conversation, I tried it when we first got it to see how bad it was but you don’t notice it unless you’re in same place and it’s about the same as a CellPhone lag anyway.
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Satellite Phone Store - Sat Phone Rentals & Services - Worldwide Coverage
Looking at the plans available now I think we will stay with what we have and get the US number for the $10 charge, makes it easier for people to call us and cheaper to use it if I call them.
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