[pskmail] Re: PSKmailservers in the Pacific

  • From: Demetre SV1UY <demetre.sv1uy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:50:30 +0300

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.

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Demetre Ch. Valaris
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