Can we say goodbye to GPS communicators?

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Astronomers are stressing about these things. Got your sensitive telescope trained on a dark patch of sky and these bright objects constantly going by.

It will be a game changer once all up and working though. Connectivity everywhere.
 
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I've been following Starlink for awhile, it's pretty cool tech. But I think the initial pricing will be out to lunch, because who else can get you broadband internet in the middle of nowhere? Elon also expects the profits from Starlink to fund his manned missions to Mars.
 
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Teth-Air said:
Okay I will explain my stand. I absolutely love this and believe it to be best tech currently available. What you fail to realize is that that is just my stupid humor to make fun of things just because its fun. Don't get all bent out of shape. Johnny is the one who responded to me and he knows my sick sense of humor. I bet you pulled the hair of the cute blonde when you were 7 years old, not because you didn't like her, it was because you had a crush on her.
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Soo... you're sayin' you're a troll by nature? makes sense.

I'm just sick of carrying multiple devices on the mountain. GPS/TEXT/RADIO/INREACH/CELL in one.
 
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Hope it works well, I long for the day when I can telus where to store their smarthub.....
 
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NoBrakes! said:
Soo... you're sayin' you're a troll by nature? makes sense.

I'm just sick of carrying multiple devices on the mountain. GPS/TEXT/RADIO/INREACH/CELL in one.
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That would be awesome!
At least the Garmin Rino packages GPS with radio, and it shows on the screen where your partner is. That feature alone is worth its weight in gold to me.
 
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I have the rino650.... radio is less than stellar, and the screens are terrible.... still in my glovebox though. until something new comes. we are closer, the new Garmin Montana 700 is really nice but still lacks radio. I would go Baofeng and the new Garmin if I was doing it today.
 
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Bury Me With My Toys said:
That would be awesome!
At least the Garmin Rino packages GPS with radio, and it shows on the screen where your partner is. That feature alone is worth its weight in gold to me.
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If you have service you can use "find my phone" or "find my friends" to see where the other person is if you've got it set up. Granted its not real accurate or quick to update right now but with better satellite tech it will get super accurate and lag time with Low Earth Orbit satellites will be 0s. And there's potentially other implications for it too, Imagine being able to see where an avalanche victim is before you ever pull out a beacon.
 
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They are calling it the "better than nothing beta". 50-150 Mbps speed is pretty decent for people that do not have access to high speed internet. Also the latency seems pretty reasonable as well.
 
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