Marshall, be a bit creative.
This is Zone 2, not the moon.
https://www.isptbo.ca/xplornet-plans---pricing.html
25Mbps Satellite service for $64.00 a month. Yep, you need gear. Call or
email them and tell them what you are doing. I bet they will loan you
a terminal for the period of your expedition. Even if not, you can
probably buy the gear for less than a satellite phone rental.
I bet you'd be pretty good at pointing the dish! :-)
73,
Gerry VE1RM / W1VE
Gerry Hull, W1VE Hancock, NH USA
Member: ARRL, YCCC, YCCCN, CW Ops
gerry@w1ve.com ph: 1-617-CW-SPARK (find me)
On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com> wrote:
> Hello to all EME and / or VHF operators....I just posted my announcement
> of our DXpedition to Zone2. Please check that out if you can.
>
> We do have one problem that we have not been able to solve at this point.
> There is NO Internet where we are going. There is no WiFi, no telephones,
> no DSL, no cell phone towers, nothing as far as I can determine. I really
> don't want to do this expedition without Internet as the coordination is
> really helpful. Twice in the past, when I had to go where there was NO
> Internet available, I took a BGAN terminal. Cost to rent one is about
> $800US. HOWEVER, you also have to purchase a "Data Plan". They really hit
> you hard on this. When we went to DL88 on 6M, after it was all over, the
> BGAN rental company said that I had exceeded my data plan and charged me
> another $600US on the credit card. Just lovely! When we went to the
> Falklands, I took another BGAN terminal and I discussed this problem very
> carefully with the tech supervisor there. I did not want that to happen
> again. Well, after the first day, I had blown my Data Plan and had to shut
> the terminal off. I could not afford another $600 per day! If it had not
> been for the help of VP8LP-Bob and VP8AIB-Janet, his wife, we would have
> not had any Internet for the rest of the trip. Bob and Janet were able to
> arrange DSL Internet for us at the QTH of Neil-VP8AWU, our host.
> Essentially, this saved our expedition. I am extremely grateful for the
> help that these folks gave us so that we could have Internet while we were
> there.
>
> Basically, we need to limit the traffic through the BGAN terminal to TEXT
> ONLY, with whatever headers are required.
>
> I have an idea on how to solve this problem, but it will require someone
> who can program a small client program which we will use in
> Zone2 AND a server piece that will do the communications. This is beyond
> my programming ability. I don't care if the programming is
> pretty, it just has to work. My idea may be garbage, but basically, I
> want to restrict the traffic through the BGAN terminal to just the
> TEXT that we and the clients out in the world send(plus headers, of
> course). NO HTTP, NO WEB PAGES, NO WINDOWS UPDATES, NOTHING but the text
> we are sending are receiving. IF there is someone that might help us on
> this, it would really be great. Clearly, this little bit of software could
> be used again and again for other expeditions, where there was little or no
> Internet coverage. IF you think you might be able to help, please get in
> touch with me at k5qe@k5qe.com. Please use the Subject = Zone2 Client so
> I can sort the emails on this subject from all the other stuff. Thank you
> very much.
>
> We really do need some help here, so please, please help us if you can.
>
> 73 Marshall K5QE
> Phone is 409-787-3830 if you want to talk
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