Anyone have experience with sat phones?

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   Definitely need to get my General.  On that long list!
It turns out Globalstar (which is the system I was considering) has stopped selling their prepaid minutes and they no longer have their lowest-cost monthly plan.  So this is on hold for now.  

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techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059	Topic: Anyone have experience with sat phones? Posted: 03 Sep 2016 at 9:43pm
	Definitely need to get my General. On that long list! It turns out Globalstar (which is the system I was considering) has stopped selling their prepaid minutes and they no longer have their lowest-cost monthly plan. So this is on hold for now.
	Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual

Tars Tarkas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1446	Posted: 03 Sep 2016 at 10:13pm
	I keep trying to stop saying, "I remember when," because it makes me seem old (which I guess I am, but still....) Anyway, I remember when we went on vacations and didn't talk on the phone for the duration unless we stopped at a payphone somewhere to check in with whoever. Texts and emails hadn't been invented or probably even thought of. Not sure what that has to do with anything.... We still camp regularly in places with no cell service though, and survive. TT
	2010 176 FJ Cruiser

techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059	Posted: 04 Sep 2016 at 11:34am

	Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual

computerfixitguy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Jun 2016 Location: Littleton, CO Online Status: Offline Posts: 91	Posted: 18 Sep 2016 at 10:31pm
	I have one. I bought it on Ebay for 300 and I buy prepaid minutes from the satphonestore.com Wierdest thing is its like calling from another country so you have to dial 011, call quality is OK. Phone size is OK. It beats running back to town however. I pay about 10c per minute with is OK with me for as little as I use it. Derek