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Re:The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio by mmaunder on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:59PM (#28804120)
Side note: We use Hughes Satellite internet when camping in BLM land and it works great. The only down-side is that the dish is almost 1 meter and takes up my entire truck bed. It takes 15 mins to point at the bird, which isn't a biggie. But the propagation delay is a killer. Around 900ms.

Can't wait for RV Starlink!!

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Re:The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio by Johnny555 on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:11PM (#28804255)
Yeah, if I spent significant time outside of cell range, I'd probably carry a real satellite phone or maybe one of the satellite communicators that let you send txt messages. Right now I just carry a personal locator beacon in case of emergency.

I've been on the wait list for StarLink for 6 months, like you, I'm still hoping for the RV dish.

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