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To: Your Highness who wrote (7374)	3/14/1999 8:15:00 PM
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FOUND THIS ON ANOTHER BOARD!! By: smilin Reply To: None Sunday, 14 Mar 1999 at 7:12 PM EST Post # of 513 To all: This is pasted from another board regarding Iridium and their dependability in the amazon. Wired in the Rain Forest March 11, 1999 Napo Camp in the Amazon Rain Forest--The phrase "it's a jungle out there" has taken on new meaning for me this week as I write my columns, take digital photographs and update a couple of Web sites from a remote jungle in the Peruvian rain forest. I'm here in Peru covering the Jason Project for Ask Jeeves for Kids. The operation is based at Explorama's Napo Camp, which--until a couple of weeks ago--was a rather remote site more than 100 miles from the nearest telephone or electrical outlet, with rather limited solar power. While the Jason Project is in town there is enough power to light a small city, a T1 line, six voice lines and the ability to beam four simultaneous audio and video signals anywhere in the world. There is even an air-conditioned production studio and a communications office perched on two barges docked on the Sucusari River, a tributary of the Amazon. All of this technology will be barged out of here by Sunday, but--for now--we have most of the technological comforts of a big city--as long as we stay at the base camp. Some of my work here takes me away from the Napo Camp, where there is nothing in the way of technology, electricity or communications, other than the Charapilla Del Murcielago tree, which is used as a drum. Drum beats can't reach North America, so I'm toting a Motorola Iridium satellite phone and a separate Iridium pager. For computing on the go, I'm using a Hewlett-Packard Jornada Windows CE handheld computer that runs up to 12 hours between charges. Most notebook PCs run for only about two hours before the screen goes blank. The Iridium phone is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it lives up to its billing--it can make and receive calls from any corner of the earth. I've used it from a riverboat on the Amazon, from the balcony of my hotel room in Lima and from a clearing in the jungle. The bad news is that it's not reliable. Some calls get through, but at least a third of the time I haven't been able to make a connection. When I do connect, there is a better than even chance that the call will be disconnected within a few minutes. Call quality also is unpredictable. Some conversations are as clear as a regular phone, while others are garbled. Of course, this is true of all wireless phones. Analog cell phones are often plagued by static, and digital cell phones sometimes have a warbling sound that makes the person on the other end sound as if they're slurring their speech. That effect is even more pronounced with the Iridium. Enjoy !!! GOOOOOOOOOOO PLFM, GOOOOOOO HOWIE!!!!