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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2007-08: VUWAE 52

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The iridium phone is a valid and practical back-up to HF radio communication. We would like to suggest activating text messaging option it is less energy demanding and cheaper than phone conversations. We used for the second year a private iridium phone to receive weather updates via text messaging. This option could also be useful to receive updates of aircraft/helo flight schedules from SB and other short messages outside the normal sched times, since the phone does not have to be switched on to store incoming messages until the phone is switched on. This could make communication initiated from SB easier and less dependent on sched times.