At 10:46 PM 9/06/2009, you wrote:
>This might be a neat alternative at least in some areas:
>http://tracklog.streckenflug.ch/
Really Nice!
Sure is.
Sadly would be great areas which were not uniquely "serviced" by
Telstra! ie Central city gliding. I have an iPhone and in Oz the most
common thing on the screen is "lost network" which is more a fault of
where I live (not in the CBD) than the phone itself.
In the bush, where the only thing you can use is NextG, the 3G iPhone
will be unlikely to work anywhere close to the ground. Bit like NextG
really.
So folks, make sure you make your next X-C flight over a city centre
if you want to send out a help message using a phone system in Oz!
DmcD
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OTOH I fly around in our BD4 (metal fuselage, no external phone
antenna) and get 3G coverage just about anywhere in SE Australia when airborne.
Seems to work fine on the ground at Toowoomba, Kingaroy, Warwick and
Boonah also.
Samsung A412. One of the designated types for country areas. I
suspect a 3G phone based modem with proper antenna would get coverage
most places gliders are flown in SE Australia at least while airborne.
Maybe the readers here could check while airborne at their gliding
sites next weekend and report back?
There's nothing quite as good as running experiments.
Mike
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