Sarah on the Worldphone at St Andrews Bay.
King Penguin chick in the queue.
Initial deployment of gear - September 1998
We wrote 14 newsletters, at approximately weekly intervals, which we emailed to friends and relatives. They describe progress with the cemetery project and how we lived out there.
Click here to see the First weekly report of 14 and then cycle through each or come back here.
Select one of the following weekly newsletters:
Our main means of communication during the project will be by satellite, using a portable satellite telephone that uses the Inmarsat Phone system to connect us to the outside world. We will use a Nera Worldphone which will allow voice contact as well as email.using the wonderful Psion series 5 palmtop computer. Power will be courtesy of a solar panel charging a 12V car battery.
As airtime is quite expensive, though $3 a minute is much less than other satellite options, we do not encourage you to email us. Sorry. Instead we will update this website every few weeks. The Psion software will not allow uploading of website files so many thanks so Sean Williams of Calamander Motorcycling who will be looking after this for us.
For more details about the Inmarsat satellite system see http://www.inmarsat.org
For more details about the Nera Worldphone see http://www.nera.no
Sarah on the Worldphone at St Andrews Bay.
King Penguin chick in the queue.