Peter Hendra wrote:

Has anyone experience of using handsets in the Iridium system?



Anyone know a vendor of these phones/handsets?

Any advice please?

Peter
NZ Yacht Herodotus


I can't help you with a vendor, but I used an Iridium phone (Motorola
9505) for a north Atlantic crossing this year and it worked fine - but
not cheap. I stuck to data calls and sent and received only emails. You
can send free texts up to 160 characters from shore to phone and send
emails directly off the phone's screen, but it's fiddly. I used a laptop
(Mac).

The handsets are not as easy to use as a mobile phone, so don't expect
to lift it out of the box and have full mastery of it - but you sound
like a techie so that should be no problem. Various websites are far
more revealing than the Motorola handbook