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[KT4WO]

https://www.technotification.com/2022/01/communicate-at-sea-no-cell-service.html

This guy did NO research before writing this!!
And this is posted as "News" on EHam !!!
And just how does a "Mobile Hotspot" work without cell service??
(Yes, I know there are satellite "Hotspots", but he does not say that.)
And what about  Maritime HF   guess he never heard of that!!??
Just goes to show the TRASH that is posted as "News"....wow

[KG4RUL]

YEP, totally clueless writer! 

[N2MG]

This author couldn’t have gotten more wrong.

[K4PIH]

Nice to know I can just grab a hot spot and have global communications, who knew?

SSB Ham radio won't work when you get far out. I guess the traffic I heard here in Northern Virginia on Maritime Mobile from the Tonga area must have been a local hoaxer! He capitalized ham for crying out loud.

VHF is the adult version of Ham radio? Wow I shoulda been wearing depends on 40 meters! It seems it's global and all along I thought it wasn't.

Satellite phone, no Middle man! Hmm then how come my Iridium calls to my friends in the next valley go through the Hawaii satellite gateway? That is, when I can get and keep a signal.

I'm just bitter because I missed out on early buy in for Iridium, one of the biggest scams since Dr. Muds elixir.   

[KT4WO]

"my Iridium calls"

Thats the one that uses LEO's right?
Is it THAT bad??  I have considered getting one
for years---but.

[K4PIH]

Oh yeah, it's horrible! To the point of being useless. The time it takes to get my iridium to acquire a LEO satellite and then I dial in the long number sequence the satellite has moved over and the phone has to acquire another LEO. Let me put it another way, if you are in an emergency situation and your life depends on making that call, just as well throw the phone at the threat, you may knock it out or at least distract it long enough to get away.

I work for the government and they issued out over 35 iridium to folks I work with. A year later almost all of them have been turned back in, mine included, due being basically paperweights.

I wouldn't waste time and money

[W1BR]

Click bait drivel.

[N2MG]

Click bait drivel.

The whole site is like that.   

[K1FBI]

  When all else fails; Smoke Signals.

[KG4RUL]

When all else fails; Smoke Signals.

Unless you live in California

They probably would demand a catalytic converter to eliminate the smoke pollution

[KT4WO]

If you lived in CA in the 70's , you would demand one too!

[KT4WO]

While we are at it, let's add lead back to gas.

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Tnx for the info about the sat. phone. Will forget about that!! haha
Maybe "Spot"  or "GO" would work??  Will read more about them.

[K1FBI]

While we are at it, let's add lead back to gas.

You're engine will thank you.
No worse for humans than releasing COVID into the atmosphere.