You can do a lot with VHF and "auto-patch" but my wife is also a ham and I think QRP CW is the best solution. Plus it will work from any location within a few hundred miles of home. I like the idea that it's old fashioned, too. Craig On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Paul Hayward <pdh_at_mmcl.co.nz> wrote: > 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 - 19:16:00 PST
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