My call time printout made good fire starter.
My call time printout made good fire starter.
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Mandela
I have had Globalstars for remote work purposes for seven or eight years now. About five years ago my son and I hiked 6.5 hours into a remote drainage for an LEH goat and called home to check in the first evening after setting up camp - good service. The next morning my son woke up sick as a dog and we tried to call out. I would have ordered us a 206 ride out in his condition but we couldn't get any service. That was a long tough hike out for the kid. I gave up on GS after that but when I tried to cancel my account they talked me into keeping one going at $20/month because their service was supposed to be improving in the near future.
Last year I was alerted to the call-times tool online and found it to be accurate. The big drawback is that it only gives you four days out so longer trips you have to wing it. I used mine on a moose hunt East of Dease Lk last year and would just set it up on a small balsam tree in camp until it found service. Longest wait was about ten minutes but I checked in with the wife daily at dinner time and had perfect reception (5 mins duration).
Last year the call-time tool identified 5-15 min windows every hour but this year the service windows are often 45 minutes or more per hour . That is a huge improvement over last year. At the price I pay I will keep the one GS phone active.
squire any more on this