February 8, 2010 21:49
Things you can do on the 9555 which you can't do with SSB.
1. take it with you in an abandone ship situation.
2. call 911 to talk directly with emergency personel in an emergency.
3. triangulate your position and have it sent to you via SMS if all other electronic navigation fails. (we actually did this one for a customer that lost his rudder and flooded the batteries. the boat eventually sank and if it were not for his iridium phone he would not be around to tell the story)
4. receive e-mail with attachments. html, attachments, not limit to text length, etc... with sailmail you are limited to 5kb of text per mesg and only small grib files for attachments.
5. can download all kinds of weather information using a number of different services. We recommend weathernet from ocens.
6. call home for special occasion.
7. receive voice calls on special occasions. You have a phone number that people can dial to talk to you.
8. receive free SMS text up to 160 characters. i.e. receive a mesg which sais... call home now.
9. browse the internet if you have to.
10. the unit consumes 400 mA at 12 volts when transmitting. So.. think about all that fuel you will save when recharging batteries after heavy SSB use.
11. no perpetual installation tuning like you have to do with the SSB.
12. no long waits to get to a station to connect. You can connect pretty much any time you want. One button e-mail and weather operation.
--luis
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Luis Soltero, Ph.D., MCS
Director of Software Development, CTO
Global Marine Networks, LLC
StarPilot, LLC
Tel: 865-379-8723
Fax: 865-681-5017
E-Mail: lsoltero@globalmarinenet.net
Web: http://www.globalmarinenet.net Web: http://www.starpilotllc.com
1. take it with you in an abandone ship situation.
2. call 911 to talk directly with emergency personel in an emergency.
3. triangulate your position and have it sent to you via SMS if all other electronic navigation fails. (we actually did this one for a customer that lost his rudder and flooded the batteries. the boat eventually sank and if it were not for his iridium phone he would not be around to tell the story)
4. receive e-mail with attachments. html, attachments, not limit to text length, etc... with sailmail you are limited to 5kb of text per mesg and only small grib files for attachments.
5. can download all kinds of weather information using a number of different services. We recommend weathernet from ocens.
6. call home for special occasion.
7. receive voice calls on special occasions. You have a phone number that people can dial to talk to you.
8. receive free SMS text up to 160 characters. i.e. receive a mesg which sais... call home now.
9. browse the internet if you have to.
10. the unit consumes 400 mA at 12 volts when transmitting. So.. think about all that fuel you will save when recharging batteries after heavy SSB use.
11. no perpetual installation tuning like you have to do with the SSB.
12. no long waits to get to a station to connect. You can connect pretty much any time you want. One button e-mail and weather operation.
--luis
--
Luis Soltero, Ph.D., MCS
Director of Software Development, CTO
Global Marine Networks, LLC
StarPilot, LLC
Tel: 865-379-8723
Fax: 865-681-5017
E-Mail: lsoltero@globalmarinenet.net
Web: http://www.globalmarinenet.net Web: http://www.starpilotllc.com