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Sat Phone + Email
  1. Iridium Satellite Phone The Motorola 9505a is the way to go. They also have refurbished options available with a 90 day warranty (vs. 1 year for new). We bought a refurbished phone old clunker 9500 which is over 4 years old and still (knock on wood) going strong. The 9505 (without the 'a') is a version that had component supply problems and was upgraded to the 9505a.
    We typically use less than a minute or two a day for email only ... your results, and bill may vary.
  2. You'll also need the Data Kit for email (under each products features).
  3. Don't forget the Serial-USB adapter and a Pelican Hard Case is handy to have for protection.


Email at Sea: UUPlus Download the personal version and play around with the various features before you unplug from the "connected" world. Worst case, save the executable on your computer. The setup is so easy I signed up while I was sea, but I don't think I really explored all the available features. Check out their available weather reports and start looking around for other reports, text files, and Noonsite pages that you'll want to download with web fetch later. It even works with other low bandwidth connection types such as Ham and Cell.


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