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Staying Connected on the Trail
The iSatPhone Pro 2 is a wise choice for the Great Outdoors. If you’ve embarked on high adventure, you know the dangers that can come from being out of cell phone range. Making a trek without a working mobile phone and no way to communicate puts your life at risk if there’s no way to call…
Wilderness Expert Steve MCclure Urges Hikers to Embrace Modern Technology.
Satellite communications could save your life. Steve McClure wants to change the way wilderness wanderers think about navigation tools. McClure, 57, has been hiking, climbing and scrambling since he took his first trip to Mount Rainier’s Klapatche Park as a child in the 1960s. Navigation piqued his interest from the start. “To be out in…
(VIDEO) Wildlife Photographer Uses Portable Satellite Internet in Remote Alaska
Taking pictures of Grizzly Bears in remote Alaska is just part of the job for this wildlife photographer as he relies on portable satellite internet to stay connected. Watch BGAN in Action below
Your Disaster Recovery Plan Should Include a Satellite Phone
Look to the Skies for Disaster Recovery If you were born between July 23 and August 22, you fall under the fifth astrological sign of the zodiac, Leo. As a Leo, your traits include being dominant, creative, and extroverted. You are strong willed, independent, and ambitious. However being a “LEO” in telecommunications has an entirely…
Life Off the Grid with Ron Melchiore
Living with Wolves and Remote CommunicationThey’re back. The wolves. During breakfast one morning this past week, we heard a chorus of howling. Racing down to the shoreline, we saw 3 wolves in the center of the lake about a mile away.Through the years we’ve seen wolf tracks on numerous occasions and have even seen the…
Listen to an emotional satellite phone call from the North Pole
Polar Explorer gives an update via satellite phone during the last 50 kilometres to the North Pole.The North Pole is 10,000km away from the equator. Literally. The hardest part of that trip? The last 50. It is from those last 50 gruelling kilometres that the following satellite phone call comes, as explorers Eric Larsen and…
70-Year-Old Norwegian Doctor Sets Off to Break the Atlantic Rowing Record
Stein Hoff thinks you waste too much time watching ‘Game of Thrones’Norwegian doctor Stein Hoff is no stranger to challenges. The avid rower crossed the Atlantic with a partner in 1997, and in 2002 he rowed solo and unsupported from Lisbon, Portugal, to the coast of the South American country of Guyana. But now the…
Hiker Found Alive: Cody Michael used duct tape to spell "HELP"
This Hiker was more hungry than hurtCody Michael, 23, and his German Shepherd, Bauer, were spotted about 10 a.m. on May 19th in Tahoe National Forest by a Black Hawk helicopter pilot and its crew.”Words don’t describe it, emotions do,” Michael’s father, Howard, told KCRA. “(I) spent a good amount of time with him. It was an…
Man Summits Everest After Being Forced Back by 2015 Earthquake
Earthquake didn’t stop Bart Williams from pursuing his dreamThe first time Bart Williams made his attempt at the summit of the world’s highest peak, he and his group were forced to turn back after an earthquake rocked Nepal.A year later, he returned to the base of Mt. Everest with his sights set on the top.”There…
(VIDEO) Do Satellites Ever Crash Into Each Other?
There are 1,100+ active satellites in orbit and millions of pieces of space junk that could cause catastrophic damage. So why don’t satellites collide? Watch our new video series called ‘Space Bytes’ to discover everything you ever needed to know about satellite communications and more. Watch the video below