sailor211
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I have a sat phone and minutes
What is the bast / cheapest system/software to send and recieve emails amd ugrib data?
What is the bast / cheapest system/software to send and recieve emails amd ugrib data?
I have a sat phone and minutes
What is the bast / cheapest system/software to send and recieve emails amd ugrib data?
I've used mailasail before, seems to work very well. Hard to say how much you would need to use it for it to pay for itself.
http://www.mailasail.com/
They also do a free weather email service. http://weather.mailasail.com/Express-Weather/Express-Weather
Here is a thread on this matter from across the pond.
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f13/e-mail-via-iridium-phone-w-o-x-gate-15482.html
Just to highlight something which doesn't seem to be "common knowledge" (I'm trying to spread the word...): Signal strength on your phone is about *THE* most important thing to address. The phone will give give you full speed with all the signal bars lit up (obvious!). Drop one bar of signal and the speed drops by around 50%. Drop two bars of signal and the speed drops by around 80% (ie to around 1/5th normal). Therefore having a good solid 5 bars signal all the time is the MOST important thing you can address with your installation.