Folks,

Need some suggestions based on your practical experiences. DD2 will be spending several months this summer in the Alaskan bush country around Prince William Sound. She’ll be counting fish for the Alaskan Dept. of Fish and Game. They provide a cabin, a generator and a sat phone for work and emergency related communications. While she could use the sat phone for personal use she has to pay the bill.

Being a member of digital generation she’d love to be able to communicate via e-mail with her friends (might even send one to her parents once in a while). Not having used sat phones I don’t know their ability to act as modems and how that might work with a dial-up ISP. Don’t know what model of sat phone ADFG uses, but I think she could find out for me. I can handle the computer side of things, she already has a small Asus laptop to use.

As a ham operator I could probably do it using digital HF but she has neither the time nor the money to take that option.

So, looking for suggestions on helping her manage her digital isolation. There will be a co-worker there as well but basically they spend 10 weeks walking the alluvial plains around the sound with only the occasional bear and fly fisherman to talk to.

Thanks!
Andy