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General Discussion / Wireless Options For The Backcountry
« on: July 20, 2005, 11:29:01 pm »
Rick,
Thanks for the reply. I am currently on the trail, and have stopped for a short layover in Sacramento where my partner has family(our first break in weeks). Over 1200 miles down, only 1450 to go. I am sorry that TrailB was not completed in time for this trip. I did a lot of work on the site, but everything went crazy those last weeks before leaving. You too will know the joy as you get closer to your thur hike.
In all the chaos, I decided to simply email out our weekly journals to family and friends. However, I plan to complete the site and put everything up after the trip which should be sometime around mid-october.
As for the Zaurus, it is working perfectly. In fact it is one of the only pieces of equipment that has not given me any trouble. Your should see how many shoes we have gone through. My setup is as follows: I translated the Z to English and use a "Socket Digital Phone Card" to convect to the internet over the Verizon network via my older kyocera cell phone. The connection is slow (<14.4)and only works in digital coverage areas, but does not cost any extra. It is at least way fast enough to send email (with photos!) and even surf the net without pictures. Sending out about a dozen photos, each at 640x480 takes only 5-10 minutes, which I think is fine when your in the middle of nowhere. Thanks to the Z, I even had the unique experience of surfing the web from the top of Mt Whitney 14,500ft! Together with my partner, we carry a good bit of electronics, so to keep it all charged we got a Brunton 4.5W SolarRoll. THe thing works great, and even fits perfectly on the back of our Mountiansmith packs so that we can charge on the go. The real problem was that you are supposed to get a car adapter for each item you need charged. To solve this, I just got a single USB car adaptor and usb cords for everthing.
Hope this helps a bit, I cant wait to chat about it more when I get back hope. Lets talk more after mid october,
gabrielm
Thanks for the reply. I am currently on the trail, and have stopped for a short layover in Sacramento where my partner has family(our first break in weeks). Over 1200 miles down, only 1450 to go. I am sorry that TrailB was not completed in time for this trip. I did a lot of work on the site, but everything went crazy those last weeks before leaving. You too will know the joy as you get closer to your thur hike.
In all the chaos, I decided to simply email out our weekly journals to family and friends. However, I plan to complete the site and put everything up after the trip which should be sometime around mid-october.
As for the Zaurus, it is working perfectly. In fact it is one of the only pieces of equipment that has not given me any trouble. Your should see how many shoes we have gone through. My setup is as follows: I translated the Z to English and use a "Socket Digital Phone Card" to convect to the internet over the Verizon network via my older kyocera cell phone. The connection is slow (<14.4)and only works in digital coverage areas, but does not cost any extra. It is at least way fast enough to send email (with photos!) and even surf the net without pictures. Sending out about a dozen photos, each at 640x480 takes only 5-10 minutes, which I think is fine when your in the middle of nowhere. Thanks to the Z, I even had the unique experience of surfing the web from the top of Mt Whitney 14,500ft! Together with my partner, we carry a good bit of electronics, so to keep it all charged we got a Brunton 4.5W SolarRoll. THe thing works great, and even fits perfectly on the back of our Mountiansmith packs so that we can charge on the go. The real problem was that you are supposed to get a car adapter for each item you need charged. To solve this, I just got a single USB car adaptor and usb cords for everthing.
Hope this helps a bit, I cant wait to chat about it more when I get back hope. Lets talk more after mid october,
gabrielm