Elon and DeSantis.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Yeah, but once you invite it in......

People in the middle of the desert and jungle have blogs, maybe they should ask them how they are managing that in those poor third world countries.

I am a first responder and I live out in the woods. I am surrounded by cell phone towers and I am lucky to get or receive a call, and even luckier if the call is not dropped, and that is on a beautiful clear day.

I guess us folks in the woods are a fourth world country to itself, unless someone can make some money on the deal, or when it benefits the government.

I don't trust them. 

I know, that is my problem.

I don't much trust them, either, but as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Musk is footing the bill for the Starlink setup according to Desantis, so I would hazard a guess that he's doing it for the PR rather than the money, like he did in the Ukraine. That's the pessimist in me poking it's head out, denying any rationale of altrusim.

I live out in the boonies, too, and have had to pipe in my own cell signals since I left Kansas City and came back the the hills. We've noticed people parking at the house just to take advantage of the only cell signal in the valley, both here and at the last residence we lived at. But when the power goes out, no cell signal here, either, because the network extender runs on 'lectricity. Battery backup would not help in our case, because the signal comes in through the internet, and the internet runs on 'lectricity, too. These hills and hollers play merry Hobb with cell signals and FM radio, because both of those travel line of sight, and there are damned few lines of sight here. Before we got the network extender, I had to climb the ridge behind my house to get a cell signal, which was a grueling trip as the ridge goes up around 400 feet or so, and the climb gets steeper the higher you go until you are almost climbing vertically before getting into the signal stream that skates along the mountain tops.

It was still better than driving out to civilization just to get a signal, though.

Out of curiosity, has any of Musk's Starlink pods given you a signal there yet?

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I used to play around with Morse Code and Amateur Radio. Never got past technician. Maybe I should pick it back up again.

I would just need to let family know that I am okay. So that isn't that hard to do. If all else fails, I can always fall back on smoke signals.