Another positive step in the pathway to launch groundbreaking new Satellite to Mobile service and add communications resiliency for Aotearoa
  • BlueÆtherA
    9·
    17 days ago

    Can’t wait, this could save us $15,000 a year in inReach access fees if we switched to just PLB and phone access for messaging.

    • thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz
      3·
      15 days ago

      Ouch. How many units do you have in service?

      The weather forecast that Inreach offers is also excellent, hopefully there will be a way to replicate that over cell service.

      • BlueÆtherA
        1·
        15 days ago

        We have 28 active units at the moment, down from about 38 a few years ago

        That is only 1 per team and another for each manager.

    • Dr Jekell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      You might want to look at the reliability guarantee if any that One NZ will give the satellite text message feature.

      Most likely in their T&C there will be verbiage that says not to use it as a replacement for dedicated services.

      • BlueÆtherA
        4·
        16 days ago

        That is why I said PLB plus txt. The satellite txt function of inReach is a fantastic function, but there is a 20min round trip. If Starlink and One Network can get that down that would be great.

        • Dr Jekell@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          16 days ago

          I am just jaded about all these new services touting how great it is and have been burnt in the past.

          Was just trying to warn you to look at the T&C for the service and thoroughly test it before dropping your other service.

          • BlueÆtherA
            5·
            16 days ago

            Yeah, it would come with a full H&S review if we did change