On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Robert J. Krasowski <rkrasowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Iridium has global coverage, including south and north pole, EPIRb works > globally as well. Inmarsat has limitations in high lattitudes, so has no > coverage over the poles. Thuraya covers Europe, Asia, Australia. > Do not forget Globstar that is cheap to use but will not work in the middle > of Indian and Pacific Oceans. And sometimes you have to wait for satellite > 30 min. The same apply to SPOT, that use Globalstar satellite network. > Making long story short the only GLOBAL satellite phone system is Iridium. > > Robert > KB2PNM Thanks Robert, That is why the WINLINK2000 guys also use Iridium with their Airmail2000 via TELNET apart from HF PACTOR and WINMOR to exchange e-mails in B2F compressed format. -- 73 de SV1UY Demetre Ch. Valaris e-mail: demetre.sv1uy@xxxxxxxxx Radio e-mail: sv1uy@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.qsl.net/sv1uy