SatPhone Satellite Permanently Off-Air! And A Bit More To Digest!
When thinking of SatPhone reliability, we realise that there is a satellite way up there that acts like a repeater. Signals between the satphone caller and the receiver pass through a satellite and back down to earth and through various mysterious channels to the person…
Birdsville Track Motorcycle Crash – July 2016
This article discusses the events around an incident where a motorcyclist travelling the Birdsville Track came off at high speed, sustaining significant injuries that could have taken his life if it wasn’t for the efforts of people on the scene, medical professionals and the involvement…
Satphones Vs HF Radio – A Real Experience
This article was submitted to VKS-737 and demonstrates the possible pitfalls that a SatPhone user could be faced with when trying to summon help. It was an actual incident that occurred in the Victorian High Country, involving a group of 4WD Club Members on one…
Announcement for all Satphone Users
New VKS-737 Satellite Telephone Service Since 1993 the VKS-737 Radio Network has provided Emergency and General Radio communications services to travellers with HF radios; over the past few years we have had many requests to extend this service to those who only have satellite telephones…
Satphone users able to use VKS-737 services
Over the past few years the Network has had many enquiries from Satphone users who do not own HF radio equipment about the possibility of using the VKS-737 Radio Network in times of emergency – unfortunately the technology that was previously available prevented us from…
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