Monthly Archive: March 2010

Iridium OpenPort vs KVH FB150 testing #3, VOJ in the Pacific 14

Iridium OpenPort vs KVH FB150 testing #3, VOJ in the Pacific

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Talk about a blue marble!  Visions of Johanna is now half way from the Galapagos to Easter Island, and very far from home. But Gram Schweikert was able to call my Google Voice mail number from VOJ yesterday, and the recording sounds decent, as you can hear below. He’s going to keep trying the two satcoms system across the Pacific, but he’s already completed the main  testing, as you’ll read after the break, and the news is pretty much all good…