On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 06:58, Craig Jungers said: >My kayaking territory was almost always covered by VHF >and/or cell phone service but the mountain and desert >trails are almost never within any communications. >In fact I'm considering building up a little QRP ham >radio kit just so I can keep Sue informed where I am. Hasn't the ham community rigged up an automated ham to phone link anywhere ? Are digitally encrypted / passworded comms permitted on the ham bands ? Seems one could connect to a base-station, identify oneself and send a voicemail - all highly digitally compressed of course... I know that ocean-crossing yachties use something similar for ultra-slow emails. Maybe sat-phones are 'good enough'. Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 08 2011 - 18:35:37 PST
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