Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
James, I suspect I will want to arrange a further trackere loan soon. Will that be possible? Also, do you have any experience of sat phones?
My main concern is that I have to be 100% confident of being able to contact the safety refuges on the race. My worry is that it is unfeasible to test VHF performance ahead of the event so it would be a real gamble...admittedly the odds are favourable but I want to eradicate gamble in this one critical area. Essentially I am looking at a 4 node network...Race HQ and the 3 safety refuges....plus one mobile to the mobile search team.
Oh and yes I do have experience of Sat phones, have hired a few for events and in a previous life use to buy them for International Aid Agencies. If you really must, Iridium not Thurya. And yes data is a reasonable cost but hiring a satphone is at least £150 without even using it.