Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-22 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Google "Iridium SBD", it is billed and tracked totally different than voice usage minutes. Also it is an asynchronous service so messages/traffic are not near instant, as with a live voice Iridium connection (which can be used as a 2400 baud, PPP dialup 1350ms latency interactive connection), data

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit -The Atlantic

2017-09-22 Thread chuck
That is pretty cool. Hard to beat HF. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:02 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit -The Atlantic Two years ago I addressed the amateur radio networks exclusion from First Net vision

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-22 Thread Lewis Bergman
Is there a different cost per minute for the data service? Based on data usage perhaps? On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:36 PM Jaime Solorza wrote: > Yes. Used by oil and gas folks > > On Sep 21, 2017 8:31 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" wrote: > >> Iridium SBD

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-21 Thread Jaime Solorza
Yes. Used by oil and gas folks On Sep 21, 2017 8:31 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" wrote: > Iridium SBD data functionality (different thing than voice service, very > short message sizes) is extremely useful for all sorts of SCADA. It's very > easy to develop software and scripts for

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-21 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Iridium SBD data functionality (different thing than voice service, very short message sizes) is extremely useful for all sorts of SCADA. It's very easy to develop software and scripts for because you can talk to the SBD modem with a standard AT comment set from a command line, interactively while

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-21 Thread Jaime Solorza
Yes. That is a useful tool...many of my SCADA clients have them for emergencies On Sep 21, 2017 8:07 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" wrote: > In a massive disaster or humanitarian relief situation, a satellite phone > is also a useful thing for an organization's emergency kit. An

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-21 Thread Eric Kuhnke
In a massive disaster or humanitarian relief situation, a satellite phone is also a useful thing for an organization's emergency kit. An Iridium handheld is not dependent on anything local to function and requires a lot less power than a ham radio setup (can be charged from a 10W to 20W sized

Re: [AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-21 Thread Jaime Solorza
Two years ago I addressed the amateur radio networks exclusion from First Net vision. Ham radio and short wave is being used in Puerto Rico right now as cellular networks are mostly down. On Sep 21, 2017 7:44 PM, "Jaime Solorza" wrote: > Short wave radio is used in

[AFMUG] OT :Silence From Arecibo After Hurricane Maria Hit - The Atlantic

2017-09-21 Thread Jaime Solorza
Short wave radio is used in Puerto Rico https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/arecibo-hurricane-maria/540600/?google_editors_picks=true