Satphone experiences...

sleepy wrote:
Then Columbus makes two people that can walk on water. When I was a kid half way back to the cival war the teachers told us that Columbus came over on three ships...

A lot of the answers on this thread are for sat phone use on land...

some are for it, some think there are better solutions

some apparently seem to think that there are better technologies on sea and land

I personally think that everyone should have the necessary basic skills to explore, to travel, so that they can survive without gizmos...

then if they want gizmos fine... if the gizmo fails they can survive.

nobody is arguing that, and nobody cares how Columbus did it 500+ years ago. Whether or not he had the skills at the time he sure wouldn't do it that way again in 2014. The OP already said his partner was an old school guy, so this rant is redundant. He has the skills... Move on